Dictionary of Welsh Biography

CANNON, MARTHA MARIA HUGHES (1857 - 1932), doctor and politician situation. For seventeen years, from 1870 to 1887, they had been allowed the vote, an entitlement largely won through the efforts of an anti-polygamy lobby in Washington. It was reasoned that if Mormon women were given the vote, they would surely use it to break free from the shackles of polygamy. But the sisters voted en masse for the status quo, insisting that the government had no mandate to intervene
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
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, 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, PHILIP (1721? - 1790), Presbyterian minister Little is known about him; he was a nephew of Philip David, and therefore presumably a Monmouthshire man. The name appears on the list of Carmarthen Academy students in 1745. In 1749 he succeeded Richard Rees as pastor of the newly incorporated congregation at Cefn-coed-cymer, an offshoot of Cwm-y-glo. He was an Arminian, and probably later on an Arian. D. 19 May 1790. His uncle's diaries have
COTTON, Sir STAPLETON (6th baronet, 1st viscount Combermere), (1773 - 1865), field-marshal governor of Barbados (1817-20), Com.-in-Chief in Ireland (1822-5) and in India (1825-30), and became field-marshal in 1855. He was raised to the peerage in 1814 and created viscount in 1827. D. 21 February 1865. His younger grandson, Col. R. S. G. Cotton, of Llwyn Onn, Llanfairpwll (1849 - 1925), presented the library of the University College of North Wales with an interesting collection of manuscripts
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.
DAFYDD ap BLEDDYN (d. 1346), bishop the temporal claims of the see; there was no attack upon his character ('Flintshire Ministers Accounts,' ed. D. L. Evans in Flintshire Record Series No. 2, xxix-xxxiii). Earlier writers were uncertain as to the year of Dafydd's death and thought that there was no new bishop until 1352. But the papal records show that (after a false start in April 1344) the news of his death in 1346 reached Avignon
DAVIES, BENJAMIN (1814 - 1875), Hebraist College, London (1844-7); (c) professor of Semitics at McGill College, Montreal (1847-57); and (d) classical and oriental tutor at the former Stepney - but then Regent's Park - Baptist College (1857-75). He married Eliza Try of Portland, Maine, during his first stay in Canada; he outlived her and died 19 July 1875 at his son's house in Frome. His literary work includes: (a) an annotated edition of E
DAVIES, DANIEL (1840 - 1916), cashier to the Ocean Collieries at Ton, Ystrad, Glamorganshire , and literary associations. He published the following pamphlets: Dewi Sant (an essay) (Carmarthen, 1863); Ymddiddan yn Nhy Capel y Cwm (Treherbert, n.d.); Darllen y Beibl yn yr Ysgolion Dyddiol (with J. D. Thomas) (Ystrad Rhondda, 1890); Y Parch. Daniel Rowland, Llangeitho, a Diwygwyr Methodistaidd ereill … Amddiffyniad (Treorchy, 1906); he edited the sermons of Islwyn (William Thomas, 1832 - 1878
DAVIES, DANIEL JOHN (1885 - 1970), Independent minister and poet Welsh Independents and his address from the chair was published in the Union's annual report for 1957. He was one of the editors of the Caniedydd Cynulleidfaol which was published in 1960. He retired from his ministry at Capel Als in 1958. He died 4 June 1970. His ashes were buried in Glandŵr cemetery. His likeable and talented wife, Enid, was the daughter of D. Stanley Jones, minister of the
DAVIES, Sir DANIEL THOMAS (1899 - 1966), physician Born in November 1899 the son of D. Mardy Davies, minister (Presb.), Pontycymer, and Esther his wife. He was brought up in the Garw valley and was educated at Bridgend grammar school and the University College, Cardiff. Practical chemical pathology at Middlesex Hospital, London, owed a great deal to him after his appointment as pathologist there in 1927. He also made a great impression as medical

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