Dictionary of Welsh Biography

BUSH, PERCY FRANK (1879 - 1955), rugby player responsible for that failure. He played a key role in Wales ' historic (3-0) victory over the All Blacks on December 16th 1905. In 1907, he was the captain of Cardiff when they defeated South Africa 17-0. He won only 8 caps, because of the contrast between his style and that of Dickie Owen, the Welsh scrum-half. He was a schoolmaster until 1910, when he settled in Nantes, where he continued to play rugby
CADWGAN FFOL (fl. 13th century), bard One englyn by him is preserved in Peniarth MS 113. This commemorates a victory gained by the Welsh over the English at Degannwy. The same englyn is attributed to Ednyfed Vychan in Peniarth MS 99. It is preserved also in Peniarth MS 122 but the author is not given. The englyn was printed in Y Greal, London, 1805 (167), and there attributed to Cadwgan Ffol. In Owen, Cambrian Biography, Enwogion
CARTER family Kinmel, administration of the town after its capitulation in October 1646. In November Carter was made governor of Conway castle, and subsequently commander in North Wales. The Second Civil War (1648) saw him again co-operating with Twiselton in the defeat and capture of Sir John Owen (1600 - 1666) near Llandygái. In 1650 he was sheriff of Caernarvonshire and a commissioner under the Act for Propagation of the Gospel
CEMLYN-JONES, Sir ELIAS WYNNE (1888 - 1966), public figure health service, the court of the National Museum of Wales, and the council of the University College of North Wales, Bangor. During 1939-46 he was active in the work of the War Agricultural Executive Committee in Anglesey. He received a knighthood in 1941. In 1931 he went on a 7000-mile journey through Russia with Frank Owen to capture the atmosphere of the country after the revolution for a novel on
CHARLES, BERTIE GEORGE (1908 - 2000), scholar and archivist , there appeared the magisterial tome George Owen of Henllys: a Welsh Elizabethan, the final product of decades of research, re-thinking and re-writing, and refined synthesis. In retirement he pressed on with his researches with renewed energy. In 1982 the Pembrokeshire Historical Society undertook the publication of his The English Dialect of South Pembrokeshire: Introduction and Word-List, a short
CHARLES, EDWARD (Siamas Gwynedd; 1757 - 1828), writer elected member of the Gwyneddigion Society; he was its secretary in 1796 and its official 'bard' in 1800 and 1810. As a poet, he is of little importance; but he was a copyist of manuscripts for Owain Myfyr (Owen Jones) in 1803-4, and further made a collection of letters (today most of them either at the British Museum or at Cardiff Free Library) which are of the utmost value to researchers on the
CHARLES, HENRY (1778 - 1840), theologian, littérateur, and mathematician Of Ffynnon Loyw in the parish of Brawdy, Pembrokeshire. Born in 1778, he was the son of Henry Charles, farmer, a prominent 18th century Independent. He was educated at the Independent chapel school at Trefgarn Owen, where, later, he was a valuable member. He possessed considerable ability, and wrote a large number of letters on theological matters to Welsh periodicals, such as the Efangylydd and
CHARLES, THOMAS (1755 - 1814), Methodist cleric before that], in The Welsh Methodists Vindicated, 1802, Charles had undertaken the rebuttal of charges of 'Jacobinism' brought against the Methodists [by such men as T. E. Owen and Hugh Davies of Aber ], and he had been commissioned by the Association to promulgate its revision in 1801 of the connexion's official rules. A strictly orthodox though moderate Calvinist, he had taken a leading part (1791
CLEMENTS, CHARLES HENRY (1898 - 1983), musician demand not only at concerts and eisteddfodau but also at the Gregynog Festival in the 1930s. He accompanied many of Wales's best known singers. In 1926 he accompanied Dora Herbert Jones and Owen Bryngwyn on some of the earliest electrical recordings made by HMV, and later played for artists such as the bass Richard Rees. He accompanied a performance of Brahms' Requiem at the National Eisteddfod in
CLYNNOG, MORYS (c. 1525 - 1581), Roman Catholic theologian 1567. In 1577 he was appointed warden. The following year Owen Lewis, archdeacon of Hainault and later bishop of Cassano, succeeded in establishing the English College in Rome, and Morys Clynnog was elected rector with a staff of three Jesuits to assist him in teaching the English and Welsh students. Clynnog was alleged to have shown favouritism to the Welsh, and a riot occurred, but there is a
COKE, THOMAS (1747 - 1814), Wesleyan Methodist minister conference to send Owen Davies (1752 - 1830) and John Hughes (1776 - 1843) to Ruthin in August 1800.
COPPACK, MAIR HAFINA (1936 - 2011), author and columnist Hafina Clwyd was born on 1st July 1936 in Gwyddelwern, Meirionethshire, the eldest of four children of Alun Jones (1907-1980), a farmer, and his wife Morfydd (née Jones, 1910-1971). She was brought up on Cefnmaenllwyd farm, and attended primary school at Gwyddelwern and Bala Girls' Grammar School. The family moved to Rhydonnen near Llandyrnog, Denbighshire, in 1953, and Hafina went to Brynhyfryd

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