Dictionary of Welsh Biography

CHAPPELL, EDGAR LEYSHON (1879 - 1949), sociologist, a pioneer of town and village redevelopment, and writer of the Welsh Housing and Development Association; he edited The Welsh Housing Year Book for 1916, 1917, and 1918. (For a list of companies with which he was connected see Who's Who in Wales, 1937). Later he devoted himself to local government affairs, serving on many councils (including the Glamorgan county council) and their various sub-committees; he was also a Privy Council representative on the
CLARE family II, earl of Hertford, died without a son in 1152, and his lands passed to his brother ROGER (died 1173). Roger strove with little success to withstand the ' Lord ' Rhys ap Gruffydd (1132 - 1197) in Ceredigion. His marriage is of great importance. His daughter-in-law was Amicia, daughter and co-heiress of William earl of Gloucester and lord of Glamorgan, and thus the house of Clare became involved
CLARK, GEORGE THOMAS (1809 - 1898), engineer and antiquary business was then working at a loss, but Clark raised it to a leading position in the country, and so maintained it. His aptitude for far-sighted innovation was as pronounced as his administrative skill. He assisted Bessemer to perfect his process; he acquired iron-ore deposits at Bilbao and undeveloped coal areas in Glamorgan; and finally moved his main works to Cardiff to economize on inland transport
CLAY, JOHN CHARLES (1898 - 1973), cricketer Johnnie Clay was born at Bonvilston, Glamorgan, on 18 March 1898, the son of Charles L. Clay and his wife Margaret (née Press). A member of a prominent sporting family in the Chepstow area, his father's shipping business was based on Cardiff Docks. He was educated at Winchester School and married Gwenllian Mary, the daughter of Colonel Homfray of Penlline castle. A fast bowler in his youth, he
COLEMAN, DONALD RICHARD (1925 - 1991), Labour politician 1983 when he backed Peter Shore (rather than his Welsh colleague Neil Kinnock) for party leader and Denzil Davies, the Labour MP for Llanelli, for deputy leader. He was especially prominent in the public life of Neath, Swansea and West Glamorgan. His leisure interests included membership of the chorus of the Welsh National Opera Company, where he performed as a tenor soloist (probably the only MP
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 chairman of the Womens' Agricultural Committee for Glamorgan, and she served as chairman of the War Pensions Commissions for Neath and district. She was appointed J.P. in 1920 and was the first woman to serve on the Glamorgan bench. From 1920-1931 she was an Official Visitor to Swansea Prison and was responsible for considerable improvements in the treatment of prisoners; for example, this remarkable
COOMBES, BERT LEWIS (1893 - 1974), coal miner and writer Treharris, Glamorgan, where his father and uncles worked in the Deep Navigation Colliery. After receiving all his formal education in the Taff Bargoed Valley, Coombes and his family moved back to Madley, Herefordshire, where they obtained the tenancy of a small farm. Consequently, when Coombes properly left England at the age of seventeen to work in the anthracite mines of Resolven, Vale of Neath, his
CORBETT, JOHN STUART (1845 - 1921), solicitor and antiquary coalfield, and with ' the war of the railways,' when the Bute estates were managed by that dominating personality, William Thomas Lewis, the 1st lord Merthyr. Corbett's chief recreations were painting and gardening, but after 1890 he devoted much of his leisure to historical studies, chiefly on the lordship of Glamorgan (collected under the title Glamorgan and published, with a memoir, in 1925); those
CORY family Methodist church in Cardiff, John became a Wesleyan, and Richard II a Baptist, but both gave unstinted assistance to all evangelical movements, particularly the Salvation Army. Among JOHN CORY's activities, it may be mentioned that he was a founder and vice-chairman of the Barry dock and railway; alderman of the Glamorgan County Council; a member of Cardiff School Board for twenty-three years; president
CORY family , including John Cory and Sons, Ltd., Cory's Trading Co., Engineering and Dry Docks Cos., M.P. for Cardiff, 1915, and for Cardiff South 1918-23; sheriff of Glamorgan 1913; Conservative and Churchman. With his brother he founded a scholarship at the Cardiff Technical College; he devoted his salary as M.P. to the funds of the King Edward VII Hospital and the Hamadryad Seamen's Hospital, Cardiff. He lived at
CRADOCK, Sir MATHEW (1468? - 1531), royal official in South Wales Descended from Einion ap Collwyn, he was the son of Richard ap Gwilim ap Evan ap Cradock Vreichfras, and Jennet Horton of Cantelupeston (Candleston) castle near Newton, Glamorganshire. In his official capacity he is said to have wielded tremendous power in South Wales. On his tombstone he is described as deputy to Charles, earl of Worcester, in the county of ' Glamorgan and Morgannwg', as
CRADOCK, RICHARD (fl. 1660-90), Nonconformist preacher, of the Independent persuasion , presumably, being son or brother to Richard. He had been teaching elder in the Cilfwnwr congregation (later Tirdoncyn) since March 1666; this is supported by the report of the Glamorgan churches sent by Henry Maurice to Broadmead in 1675, and by the entry in the Tirdoncyn register recording Cradock's death on 6 July 1690.

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