Dictionary of Welsh Biography

CORY family Police Institute; the original Cardiff Y.M.C.A.; the Cory Temperance Hall, Cardiff, etc. For many years before his death his benefactions amounted to nearly £50,000 a year. He was held in such esteem by the people of Cardiff, that they erected during his lifetime a bronze statue, the work of Sir William Goscombe John, in front of the City Hall (1905). John Cory married, 19 September 1854, Anna Maria
CORY family Wesleyan Methodist. He died 26 December 1931 and was buried at the Cardiff cemetery. He left two sons, JOHN HERBERT CORY (died 17 May 1939, aged 50), and CHARLES KINGSLEY CORY. Sir JAMES HERBERT CORY (1857 - 1933), 1st baronet Business and IndustryRoyalty and Society, was the younger son of John Cory I, and was born at Padstow 7 February 1857. He was a shipowner, director of thirty-five companies
COTTON, JAMES HENRY (1780 - 1862), dean of Bangor cathedral and educationist rearrangement of the interior, dividing it into a western church for Welsh parochial services and an eastern church for English cathedral services, and giving each language its full place, thus inaugurating the system still in force, although the restoration under Sir Gilbert Scott reversed his architectural arrangements.
COTTON, Sir STAPLETON (6th baronet, 1st viscount Combermere), (1773 - 1865), field-marshal came of the house of Salusbury of Llewenni - pedigree in J. E. Griffith, Pedigrees, 222. Sir John Salusbury (died s.p. 1684) left the estate to his sister HESTER (died 1710), who married Sir Robert Cotton, 1st baronet, of Combermere (died 1713); their son Sir THOMAS COTTON, 2nd baronet (died 1715), married Philadelphia Lynch. They had three children, of whom the youngest, Hester, married John
CRADOC, WALTER (1610? - 1659), Puritan theologian three others, was summoned to appear before the Court of High Commission. He may have escaped from London to the Marches for, from February to November 1639, he was a member of the Puritan congregation which was formed in Llanfair Waterdine under the patronage of Sir Robert Harley. There is no record of his being tried by the High Commission. Between 5 November and 6 December 1639 he was in Llanfaches
CRADOCK, Sir MATHEW (1468? - 1531), royal official in South Wales in the lordships of Cardif, Glomorgan, Morgannok, Gower, Ilande, Vske, and Carlyon (Cal. Pat. Rolls, 6 H. VII). Again, Matthew Craddoke of London, alias of Swaynesey, co. Glamorgan, is granted a pardon for not appearing before the king's justices 6 February 1504-5 (Cal. Pat. Rolls, 20 H. VII). The contemporary Welsh bard Iorwerth Fynglwyd composed two poems referring to Sir Mathew, one when he was
CRAWLEY, RICHARD (1840 - 1893), scholar Born at Bryngwyn near Raglan, Monmouthshire, 26 December 1840, son of William Crawley, archdeacon of Monmouth, and of Gertrude, third daughter of Sir Love Jones Parry of Madryn. He was a Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford. His career and works (the chief of which was the translation of Thucydides, now included in ' Everyman's Library') are noticed by Sidney Lee in the D.N.B., First Supplement
CRAWSHAY family, industrialists Cyfarthfa furnaces, forges, and mills, and became one of the chief promoters of the Glamorgan Canal which was opened from Merthyr to Cardiff in 1794. He took advantage of the boom in the iron trade and of the need for cannon caused by the Napoleonic wars and the dearness of iron from Sweden and Russia. He was much helped by his two young nephews, Joseph and Crawshay Bailey, the sons of his sister Susanna, but was
CRAWSHAY, Sir GEOFFREY CARTLAND HUGH (1892 - 1954), soldier and social benefactor
CYNOG (fl. 500?), saint averred, had been given him by his father and which became a most precious relic in the estimation of the whole countryside. It has not survived, but Giraldus Cambrensis had seen it and gives a detailed description, which, though not easy to interpret, points, in the opinion of Sir T. D. Kendrick, to its probably being Welsh or Irish work of the Viking period, i.e. the 10th or the 11th century.
CYNWRIG HIR (fl. 1093) Edeirnion subsequent careers of Gruffydd and his descendants. Arthur Jones (editor of the History) and Sir J. E. Lloyd do not agree on the length of Gruffydd's imprisonment, nor, as a result, on the date of Cynwrig's visit to Chester, and Lloyd did not place 'absolute confidence' in the story. The History is, nevertheless, an early authority.
DAFYDD ab EDMWND (fl. 1450-1490), gentleman and bardic master Born in the parish of Hanmer in English Maelor, Flintshire, of the same lineage as the Hanmers and descended from John Upton, constable of Caernarvon Castle, 1306-1307, son of Sir John Macklesfield, was the owner of Yr Owredd and of other lands in Hanmer but spent part of his life, at any rate, at Tre Wepra, Englefield, his mother's old home; he was buried in Hanmer church. At the Carmarthen

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