Dictionary of Welsh Biography

CARRINGTON, THOMAS (Pencerdd Gwynfryn; 1881 - 1961), musician and printer Born at Gwynfryn, Bwlch-gwyn, near Wrexham, Denbighshire, 24 November 1881, the son of John Carrington (a descendant of one of the families that migrated from Cornwall to work in the Denbighshire lead mines) and Winifred (née Roberts), a native of Bryneglwys. He spent his early years at Gwynfryn and was educated at Bwlch-gwyn school. After leaving school he was apprenticed as a printer at Hughes
CARTER family Kinmel, William procured an Act of Parliament, allowing him to sell out to Sir George Wynne of Leeswood, Flintshire; William then went to live at Redbourn, in Lincolnshire. The Kinmel estate continued to be an embarrassment even to its new owners, and in June 1781 a decree of Chancery sanctioned its sale to a David Roberts, of London, who, however (with his associates), sold it again, in 1786, to the Rev
CHARLES, DAVID (1812 - 1878), Calvinistic Methodist minister Aberystwyth in October 1872. Upon the appointment of his nephew T. C. Edwards as principal he resigned his post and later migrated to Aberdovey, where he died on 13 December 1878. In 1869 he was moderator of the general assembly of his connexion. He married (1), 1839, Kate Roberts, Holyhead, who died c. 1844; (2), 1846, Mary, daughter of Hugh Jones of Llanidloes and widow of Benjamin Watkins, by whom he had
CHARLES, DAVID (1762 - 1834), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and hymn-writer ); and again Pregethau, etc. (Wrexham, 1860). In 1879 Detholion o Ysgrifeniadau (a selection of his works) was published at Wrexham. His hymns were published in the small collections of the period, e.g. Anthem y Saint… gan Evan Dafydd (Carmarthen, 1807); Hymnau ar Amrywiol Achosion (Carmarthen, 1823), etc. His eminence as a hymn writer is assured, and his greatest hymns are to be found in all the Welsh
CHARLES, DAVID (1803 - 1880), Calvinistic Methodist minister and hymnist of Thomas Rice Charles - she died 1833; (2) Ann, daughter of Richard Roberts, Liverpool. He died at his son's house, 10 May 1880, and is buried at Ulverston, Lancashire.
CHARLES, EDWARD (Siamas Gwynedd; 1757 - 1828), writer attacked it (though without specifically naming it) in the Cylchgrawn edited by Morgan John Rhys, and in 1797 he published a pamphlet, Epistolau Cymraeg at y Cymry, against it. Several of his friends, in London and in Wales, disapproved of this work, and in 1806 there appeared Amddiffyniad i'r Methodistiaid, by Thomas Roberts of Llwyn'rhudol, under the pseudonym Arvonius. Charles was a lively and bitter
CHARLES, GEOFFREY (1909 - 2002), photographer daughter. These pictures appeared on 23rd January 1937. Later he was to team up with a promising young reporter named John Roberts Williams to photograph stories for Y Cymro. The two had first been introduced by a mutual acquaintance at Pwllheli football field in 1938. Geoff regarded John Roberts Williams as the man who made him realise and value his Welsh heritage. John Roberts Williams was best man at
COFFIN, WALTER (1784 - 1867), colliery pioneer an opportunity for a time, the works medical officer, Evan Davies, being a supporter of that cause.
COTTON, JAMES HENRY (1780 - 1862), dean of Bangor cathedral and educationist Samuel Fisher, M.D., of Bath. (She died 1828, leaving two daughters, of whom the younger married Evan Lewis, afterwards dean of Bangor cathedral, 1884-1902.) Dean Cotton died 28 May 1862, and was buried in Bangor cathedral churchyard. Cotton entirely identified himself with every aspect of Church work in the diocese of Bangor; he was secretary of the Christian Knowledge Society, chairman of the Bangor
CRADOCK, Sir MATHEW (1468? - 1531), royal official in South Wales Descended from Einion ap Collwyn, he was the son of Richard ap Gwilim ap Evan ap Cradock Vreichfras, and Jennet Horton of Cantelupeston (Candleston) castle near Newton, Glamorganshire. In his official capacity he is said to have wielded tremendous power in South Wales. On his tombstone he is described as deputy to Charles, earl of Worcester, in the county of ' Glamorgan and Morgannwg', as
DAFYDD DARON (fl. 1400), dean of Bangor , following Le Neve, says he was outlawed, as a supporter of Owain Glyn Dŵr, in 1406, and adds, on his own information, that he was 'a wealthy man and son of Evan ap David ap Griffith, a descendant of Caradoc ap Iestyn.' More questionable is the assertion that he was the man in whose house the famous Tripartite Indenture was signed. According to the chronicler Hall, the sole authority for the place of
DAFYDD LLWYD (d. 1619) HENBLAS,, poet and scholar according to Dwnn). Noted for his scholarship, he is said to have known eight languages. A number of his poems, all in strict metre, have been preserved in manuscript. They include an elegy to his wife, Catherine, and three englynion to one of his sons. ' Sir ' Huw Roberts and Richard Cynwal composed elegies upon his death.

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