Dictionary of Welsh Biography

BURTON, PHILIP HENRY (1904 - 1995), teacher, writer, radio producer and theatre director Secondary School, he soon switched toteaching English. He stayed at the school until 1945, becoming head of English and the Senior Master. It was here that P. H. Burton taught another collier's son, Richard Jenkins, born in the year that Burton began teaching. Burton produced school plays such as Bernard Shaw's The Apple Cart. This 1941 production typifies the teacher's prescience: it was one of the first
BURTON, RICHARD (1925 - 1984), stage and film actor Richard Walter Jenkins was born in Pont-rhyd-y-fen, Glamorganshire, on 10 November 1925, the twelfth child of Richard Walter Jenkins (a miner who was fond of his pint) and his wife Edith (née Thomas). Following his mother's death barely two years later, Richard went to live with his eldest sister, Cecilia, in the neighboring village of Taibach. The family was Welsh-speaking and Richard retained
BUTE family (marquesses of Bute, Cardiff Castle, etc.), ' Breviary,' 1879, with numerous historical and critical notes; On the ancient language of Teneriffe (London, 1891); and, with J. R. N. Macphail and H. W. Lonsdale, of The Arms of the Royal and Parliamentary Burghs, 1897; he was also the translator of Seven Essays on Christian Greece, by D. Bikelas, 1890. He was responsible for much excavation, restoration, and rebuilding at Cardiff castle. He died 9
CALLAGHAN, LEONARD JAMES (1912 - 2005), politician position and had to acknowledge his failure. If it wasn't for his wife he would have resigned from Parliament. Wilson ensured that would not happen by moving him to the Home Office and bringing in Roy Jenkins to replace him. Callaghan soon re-established his reputation as a minister of the Crown. His roots in the trade union movement and his Baptist upbringing were responsible for his conservative
CARPENTER, KATHLEEN EDITHE (1891 - 1970), ecologist the formation of a colloidal precipitate of heavy metal on the gills, causing death by suffocation. At the end of her classic paper on the freshwater invertebrate fauna of some Cardiganshire Streams, she expresses her most sincere gratitude to her Aberystwyth mentors: Prof. R. D. Laurie for his continued interest and encouragement, and Prof. H. J. Fleure for the geographical background to the study
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
CHALONER, THOMAS (d. 1598), Ulster King of Arms , Denbighshire, and Roundway, Wiltshire, became Bluemantle Pursuivant in 1660 and Lancaster Herald in 1665. To the references given above add Anthony R. Wagner, Catalogue of English Mediaeval Rolls of Arms (London, 1950); in this work in a note it is suggested that Chaloner's appointment received on the day of his death was that of deputy herald for Chester, not that of Ulster King of Arms.
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, EDWARD (Siamas Gwynedd; 1757 - 1828), writer He was born at Clocaenog, Denbighshire - christened there 23 September 1757 - son of Edward (yeoman) and Margaret Charles. Hardly anything is known of his early life; it is said that he was schooled by David Ellis, curate of Derwen, and was afterwards apprenticed at Ruthin (Jenkins, Thomas Charles, ii, 390). In 1789 at latest he was working in a draper's shop in London. On 5 April 1790 he was
CHARLES, JOHN ALWYN (1924 - 1977), minister (Cong.) and college lecturer after. During the seven last years of his life, however, he was forced on account of heart disease to curtail his travelling, and it was arranged for him during that period to serve on a regular basis in the pulpit of the church at Bethesda, Bethesda. Principal R. Tudur Jones stated that Alwyn Charles possessed 'a clear and bright mind and since the light of the Bible was as a lamp to his feet, he
CHARLES, THOMAS (1755 - 1814), Methodist cleric He was born 14 October 1755, probably at Longmoor, Llanfihangel Abercowin, Carmarthenshire, son of Rees Charles, farmer, and his wife Jael, daughter of David Bowen of Pibwr Lwyd, sheriff of Carmarthenshire in 1763; David Charles I was his brother. From Llanddowror village school he went (1769) to Carmarthen Academy under Jenkin Jenkins, and thence (1775) to Jesus College, Oxford (B.A. 1779); his
CONYBEARE, WILLIAM DANIEL (1787 - 1857), geologist and divine , extending across the southern part of the area, makes it possible to work seams that would otherwise be inaccessible. He was elected F.R.S. [in 1832 ]. While at Llandaff he was largely r esponsible for the restoration of the cathedral, which his predecessor had commenced by reconstructing the Lady chapel. He published a memoir on the history and architecture of the cathedral in Archæologia Cambrensis

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