Dictionary of Welsh Biography

CHARLES, DAVID (1812 - 1878), Calvinistic Methodist minister was held at his London house - (Davies and Jones, The University of Wales, 69-70).
CHARLES, EDWARD (Siamas Gwynedd; 1757 - 1828), writer history of London Welshmen and of their societies. Better known are his controversial writings. Though he was one of the closest friends of John Jones, Glan-y-gors, he agreed not at all with the latter's political opinions, and in the Geirgrawn, edited by David Davies of Holywell, in 1796 he and others attacked John Jones's Seren tan Gwmmwl. Fiercer still was his hatred of Methodism. In 1793 he had
CHARLES, JOHN ALWYN (1924 - 1977), minister (Cong.) and college lecturer . Davies was minister. After following the preparatory course at Coleg Myrddin, he was accepted, in October 1943, to the Presbyterian College, Carmarthen. In 1948, he gained his B.A. with honours in Philosophy from the University College, Cardiff, and his B.D., in 1951, from Carmarthen College, with honours in the Philosophy of Religion. He accepted a call to be minister of the church at Ebeneser
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 encouragement. It was, however, H. Walford Davies, as Professor of Music at the University College, who set him on his career path. Davies heard him playing piano accompaniments to silent films at the Palladium cinema in Aberystwyth and invited him to join a piano trio being formed in the Music Department; Clements then studied for a music degree, graduating in 1924. Two years later he was appointed a
CLOUGH family Plas Clough, Glan-y-wern, Bathafarn, Hafodunos, local militia for the French war (1795). His flair for business appears in his work from 1792 as an agricultural improver - much praised by Gwallter Mechain (Walter Davies) and recognized by the gold medal of the Society of Arts (1807) - on his farm of Eriviat and the Bathafarn estate, and also in his association with David Mason (Ystrad Uchaf), Rev. J. Lloyd Jones (Plas Madoc), and his own nephew and
COFFIN, WALTER (1784 - 1867), colliery pioneer an opportunity for a time, the works medical officer, Evan Davies, being a supporter of that cause.
COKE, THOMAS (1747 - 1814), Wesleyan Methodist minister conference to send Owen Davies (1752 - 1830) and John Hughes (1776 - 1843) to Ruthin in August 1800.
COLEMAN, DONALD RICHARD (1925 - 1991), Labour politician 1983 when he backed Peter Shore (rather than his Welsh colleague Neil Kinnock) for party leader and Denzil Davies, the Labour MP for Llanelli, for deputy leader. He was especially prominent in the public life of Neath, Swansea and West Glamorgan. His leisure interests included membership of the chorus of the Welsh National Opera Company, where he performed as a tenor soloist (probably the only MP
CONDRY, WILLIAM MORETON (1918 - 1998), naturalist, conservationist and writer ). Condry was a man of personal charm, modesty and humour, unobtrusively persuasive where matters of principle or conservation were concerned, and for many he came to be regarded as a touchstone in his attitude to the natural world. William Condry died from kidney failure in Morriston Hospital, Swansea on 30 May 1998, aged 80, and was cremated in Aberystwyth on 8 June and his ashes scattered on one of his
CONWAY family Botryddan, Bodrhyddan, Lleweni and Combermere abbey (see Cotton, Sir Stapleton). Penelope, daughter and co-heiress of Penelope, the eldest daughter, and Ellis Yonge of Acton and Bryn Iorcyn, married William Davies Shipley, dean of St Asaph. It may be of further interest to note that from Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Conway by his first wife, who married Sir Thomas Longueville, bart., was descended Harry Longueville Jones
COPPACK, MAIR HAFINA (1936 - 2011), author and columnist team, published in 201l. She twice came close to winning the Prose Medal at the National Eisteddfod. Her entry for the Abergwaun National Eisteddfod in 1986 was published under the title Merch Morfydd. According to R. Geraint Gruffydd, one of the adjudicators, the work is 'an excellent autobiography … the writing is consistently lively and interesting and often thrilling.' Rhiannon Davies Jones

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