Dictionary of Welsh Biography

BULKELEY family without issue in 1822. With him the peerage became extinct, and the long line of Bulkeleys of Baron Hill, that had lasted in unbroken succession for wellnigh four centuries, was at last broken. Lord Bulkeley was to be followed by his nephew Richard (son of his half-brother Sir ROBERT WILLIAMS, 1764 - 1830), who received the king's special permission to assume the name of Sir RICHARD BULKELEY WILLIAMS
BULMER, JOHN (1784 - 1857), Independent minister Born Yorkshire; educated at Rotherham under Dr. Edward Williams; became in 1813 pastor of Albany Meeting, Haverfordwest, where he remained till 1840. The rest of his life was spent in the ministry at Rugeley, Bristol, Newbury, and (after an interval) at Langmore and Ruxton near Ross. He died 26 November 1857. While at Haverfordwest, Bulmer published some ten volumes of verse, sermons, and other
BURTON, RICHARD (1925 - 1984), stage and film actor : one reason for this was to ease Richard's entry to Oxford, where he went to study for a six-month period in 1944 before beginning his compulsory military service. However, by this time Richard had already enjoyed success on the professional stage, having been spotted by Emlyn Williams and cast in a role in his drama The Druid's Rest. After over two years' service in the RAF Richard became a
CADWALADR, ELLIS (fl. 1707-40), poet A native of Llandderfel, Meironnydd; he lived at Hafod Uchel. He wrote both in strict and in free metres. Some of his ballads were printed in the 18th century - e.g. Cerdd i ofyn Pâr o Ddillad o Rôdd Pendefig, and Cerdd o barchedigaeth urddasol Watkin Williams Wynne, Esq. Some of his poems are included in Blodeugerdd…, 1759. It appears from his poem ' Clod i Ferch,' which contains many classical
CECIL family Allt-yr-ynys, Burghley, Hatfield, Northampton) Movements Public and Social Service, Civil Administration Baron Burghley (1571), Secretary of State)1550-3 and 1558-1572), and Lord Treasurer (1572-98). Burghley's continued interest in Wales appears in the pains he took to establish his Welsh pedigree, his introduction into princess Elizabeth's household of one of his Brecknock connections, Thomas Parry (1560), who became her Comptroller, his investment
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 . In the words of Sir Thomas Parry-Williams, who was for a time President of the Society, Cecil-Williams maintained the office of secretary 'fiercely and untiringly to promote the welfare and protect the inheritance of Wales and the Welsh'. Although Professor R.T. Jenkins, together with Sir John Edward Lloyd and Sir William Llewelyn Davies, deserve the praise for the form and content of the DWB, it
CHANCE, THOMAS WILLIAMS (1872 - 1954), minister (B) and principal of the Baptist College, Cardiff Born 23 August 1872, son of Thomas Chance (died 5 January 1873, 29 yearss old) and Mary (born Williams; died 15 August 1908, 79 years old) of Erwood, Brecknock. He received his early education at Pen-rhiw school, but because of his father's early death he had to leave school when he was 11 years old to earn his living as a farm servant and maintain the family for the next 9 years, initially at
CHARLES, BERTIE GEORGE (1908 - 2000), scholar and archivist He was born 13 February 1908 at Penparc, near Trefin in Pembrokeshire. He was brought up at Tresinwen Farm and educated at Henner elementary school and Fishguard County School, where he was taught by D. J. Williams as his English master. In the autumn of 1926 he entered the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, to study English, and graduated with an exceptionally good first class honours
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
CHARLES, JOHN ALWYN (1924 - 1977), minister (Cong.) and college lecturer Alwyn Charles was born at Colombia Row, Llanelli, 18 December 1924, the son of David John Charles and his wife. He received his elementary education at St. Paul and Lakefield, Llanelli, prior to entering Woodend Secretarial College. From that college he went to serve as a clerk at the solicitors' office of Jennings and Williams. He began to preach at Capel Als, Llanelli, where the Reverend D. J
CHARLES, THOMAS (1755 - 1814), Methodist cleric of religion; they were paid £10 a year out of funds collected ad hoc by the Methodist societies in North Wales. Later on, Charles decided that such schools should meet weekly, on Sundays. Charles was not 'the founder of the Sunday School ' [even in Wales - see M. J. Rhys and Edward Williams (1750 - 1813) ], and indeed some Welsh Methodists opposed this innovation; but it was he, by his organizing
CLARK family, printers and publishers 1903 to Enoch Williams. James Clark died 12 June 1859. A fortnight after The Chepstow Weekly Advertiser began to appear, another Monmouthshire newspaper started its career - The Illustrated Usk Observer; this was printed and published at Usk by JAMES HENRY CLARK (1818 - 1913), another son of James Clark. J. H. Clark and his elder brother GEORGE A. CLARK (who, however, died at Chepstow 12 April 1835

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