Dictionary of Welsh Biography

CAMPBELL, FREDERICK ARCHIBALD VAUGHAN, viscount Emlyn (1847-1898), earl Cawdor (1898-1911) commissioner in lunacy, 1886-93; and chairman of the Great Western Railway, 1895-1905. He succeeded as 3rd earl Cawdor on the death of his father, 1898. In 1905 (March-November) he was First Lord of the Admiralty in the Balfour Government. He played a leading part in opposition to the 'Lloyd George budget' of 1909 and in 1910 was concerned in discussions for the reform of the House of Lords. His interests
CARTER family Kinmel, linen-draper - hence the contemporary pun which described his marriage as the acquisition of ' the best piece of holland in the county.' But in 1645 he was successively captain and colonel of horse at Brereton's siege of Chester, and was one of the commissioners at its surrender in February 1645/6. In close association with George Twiselton, he took an active part in the siege of Denbigh, and in the
CHARLES, BERTIE GEORGE (1908 - 2000), scholar and archivist , there appeared the magisterial tome George Owen of Henllys: a Welsh Elizabethan, the final product of decades of research, re-thinking and re-writing, and refined synthesis. In retirement he pressed on with his researches with renewed energy. In 1982 the Pembrokeshire Historical Society undertook the publication of his The English Dialect of South Pembrokeshire: Introduction and Word-List, a short
CHARLES, GEOFFREY (1909 - 2002), photographer his marriage in 1939 to Verlie Blanche George (1907-1981). They had a son, John, and two daughters, Janet and Susan. Work for Y Cymro almost ceased during the war years when his efforts were concentrated on the Montgomeryshire Express. He also served on the Demonstration sub-committee of the Montgomeryshire War Agricultural Executive Committee helping publicise and implement improved farming
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
CLARK, GEORGE THOMAS (1809 - 1898), engineer and antiquary Born in London 26 May 1809, he was the son of George Clark (1777 - 1848), a chaplain of Chelsea Hospital, and Clara Dicey; Samuel Clarke, the theologian, was his great-grandfather. He was educated at Charterhouse and after engaging for some time in medical studies qualified as an engineer. He worked (under Brunel) on the Great Western Railway (he published in 1839 an anonymous guide to the G.W.R
CLIVE, HENRIETTA ANTONIA (1758 - 1830), traveller and scientific collector Lady Henrietta Clive (née Herbert) was the daughter of Henry Arthur Herbert (Herbert), first earl of Powis (second creation) and his wife Barbara Herbert (née Herbert, 1735-1786). Henrietta was born on 3 September 1758 at her father's principal residence Oakley Park, at Bromfield, near Ludlow in Shropshire. The only sibling who reached maturity was her elder brother George Edward Henry Arthur
COLEMAN, DONALD RICHARD (1925 - 1991), Labour politician . He famously succeeded in persuading the Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson to visit Neath in 1968 to hear at first-hand complaints about the closure of two local coal mines. He was a PPS, 1964-70 (including serving as PPS to George Thomas when he was the Secretary of State for Wales, 1968-70, and thus in effect minister of state for Wales; he also served under Eirene White and Cledwyn Hughes), an
CONSTANTINE, GEORGE (c . 1500 - 1560?), cleric
COOMBE TENNANT, WINIFRED MARGARET (Mam o Nedd; 1874 - 1956), delegate to the first assembly of the League of Nations, suffragette, Mistress of the Robes of the Gorsedd of the Bards, and a well-known medium Born the only child of George Edward Pearce-Serocold and his second wife, Mary Richardson of Derwen Fawr, Swansea. In 1895 she married Charles Coombe Tennant, and they lived in Cadoxton Lodge, near Neath. She became, thereby, daughter-in-law to Gertrude Barbara Rich Collier and sister-in-law to Dorothy Coombe Tennant who married the famous explorer H.M. Stanley). During World War I she was deputy
CORY family steamers being built on the Clyde. JOHN CORY II (1855 - 1931), shipowner and dry-dock owner Business and Industry. Born at Padstow, he came to Cardiff when a youth of 17 from London, where he had been training as a merchant and ship-broker. He joined his father (John Cory I) and his brother (Herbert) in their firm; married Emma Grigg, daughter of George Hosking Wills, Cardiff, and lived at Sea View House
COTTON, JAMES HENRY (1780 - 1862), dean of Bangor cathedral and educationist Born 10 February 1780, second son of George Cotton, dean of Chester, and Catherine, daughter of James Tomkinson of Dorfold Hall, Nantwich. Educated at Rugby school and Trinity College, Cambridge (matric, 1797, LL.B. 1804), he was ordained in 1803, became curate of Stoke, 1803, Thornton, Chester, 1806; rector of Derwen, Denbighshire, 1809, junior vicar of Bangor, Caernarfonshire (by exchange), and

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