Dictionary of Welsh Biography

CARTER family Kinmel, Kinmel, near Abergele, once the property of a Lloyd family (Yorke, Royal Tribes, 2nd edn., 113), changed hands when Alice, heiress of Gruffudd Lloyd, married Richard ap Dafydd ab Ithel Fychan, of Plas Llaneurgain (Northop). Their daughter and heiress, Catherine, married Pyrs Holland (died 1552), of Faerdref (see Holland families, No. 5); thus was founded the house of Holland of Kinmel (ibid., No
CATHERALL, JONATHAN (1761 - 1833), industrialist and philanthropist married Catherine Jones, daughter of the vicar of Llannor and Denïo, Caernarfonshire. Accustomed to attend Hawarden church, about the year 1785 he joined the Independents and was closely associated with their cause throughout his life. He was deeply concerned for the moral and spiritual welfare of the increasing population of his native district, and took a prominent part in establishing the Independent
CECIL-WILLIAMS, Sir JOHN LIAS CECIL (1892 - 1964), solicitor, secretary Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion and driving force behind the publishing of the Dictionary of Welsh Biography Born 14 October 1892 in Paddington, London, one of two children of John Cadwaladr Williams, a doctor, and Catherine (née Thomas) his wife. (The son adopted the hyphenated name of Cecil-Williams by deed-poll in 1935). The family came from Uwch Aled. He was educated first in London and, for a year or so, in the village school at Cerrigydrudion. Returning to London he attended the City of London
CLOUGH family Plas Clough, Glan-y-wern, Bathafarn, Hafodunos, son-in-law Richard Butler Clough (whose wife Catherine inspired the dedication of Old Colwyn church, near the family seat of Plas Min-y-don) to found at Denbigh (c. 1794) one of the pioneer banks of North Wales. Its failure during the slump of 1814 involved the sale of other industrial properties in which the partners had invested, and the payment in full of the creditors (1822) meant a heavy drain
CLOUGH, Sir RICHARD (d. 1570), merchant, and (for a period) 'factor' for Sir Thomas Gresham in Antwerp , Denbighshire; he was Katherine's second husband. Of this marriage there were two daughters, among their descendants being Hester Lynch Salusbury and Sir Robert Salusbury (died 1818), baronet, of Cotton Hall, Denbighshire, and Llan-wern, Monmouthshire. (Clough had, by Catherine Muldert of Antwerp, a son named Richard, from whom were descended the Cloughs described in the article on that family.) About the
COBDEN, CATHERINE ANNE - see WILLIAMS, HUGH
COTTON, JAMES HENRY (1780 - 1862), dean of Bangor cathedral and educationist Born 10 February 1780, second son of George Cotton, dean of Chester, and Catherine, daughter of James Tomkinson of Dorfold Hall, Nantwich. Educated at Rugby school and Trinity College, Cambridge (matric, 1797, LL.B. 1804), he was ordained in 1803, became curate of Stoke, 1803, Thornton, Chester, 1806; rector of Derwen, Denbighshire, 1809, junior vicar of Bangor, Caernarfonshire (by exchange), and
CRADOC, WALTER (1610? - 1659), Puritan theologian Llangwm, Monmouth. He died 24 December 1659 and was buried in the chancel of Llangwm church. His will was dated 9 December 1659 and was proved 28 November 1661 by Richard Creed. His wife was Catherine Langford, daughter of Richard and Elizabeth Langford of Trefalun, Wrexham (see the article on that family), and he had two daughters, Eunice and Lois - the latter the wife of Richard Creed. Cradoc was best
DAFYDD LLWYD (d. 1619) HENBLAS,, poet and scholar of the landed family of Henblas (Llangristiolus, Anglesey), who, it is said, graduated from S. Edmund Hall, Oxford. He married Catherine, daughter of Richard Owen of Penmynydd, and about eight children were born to them, three of the sons becoming clergymen. Lewys Dwnn and J. E. Griffith state that he also married Jane, daughter of Llywelyn ap Dafydd of Llandyfrydog (she being his first wife
DALTON, EDWARD HUGH JOHN NEALE (BARON DALTON), (1887 - 1962), economist and politician Born at Neath, Glamorganshire, the son of Canon John Neale and Catherine Alicia Dalton, on 26 August 1887. His father had been tutor to King George V when Prince of Wales and he was a Canon of St. George's Chapel, Windsor from 1885 until his death in 1931. His mother was the daughter of Charles Evans-Thomas of Gnoll House, Neath. Hugh Dalton was educated at Summer Fields, Oxford, and Eton before
DAVIES, CATHERINE GLYN (1926 - 2007), historian of philosophy and linguistics, and translator
DAVIES, DAVID (1753 - 1820), Methodist cleric Born 1753, son of John and Catherine Davies of Pen-y-bont, Newcastle Emlyn. His parents were the leading supporters of the Methodist connexion in that town, and the society used, at one time, to meet at their house. There was a David Davies, curate of Llanddarog and Llanarthney, Carmarthenshire, 1769-1785, who was a strong Methodist but, if the age recorded on his tombstone is correct, the

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