Dictionary of Welsh Biography

CARNE, Sir EDWARD (c. 1500 - 1561), lawyer and diplomat dissolving monasteries (1538-9), purchasing Ewenny priory (which he had leased in 1536) on its dissolution (1545). In 1538-9 he was sent to the Netherlands in pursuance of the king's suit for Anne of Cleves, and in 1540 to France (probably with a knighthood) to announce the dissolution of this marriage, returning to the Netherlands on commercial mission in 1541. Henry rewarded him with the chancellorship
CARR, HENRY LASCELLES (1841 - 1902), journalist and newspaper proprietor
CARTER, HUGH (1784 - 1855), Welsh Wesleyan Methodist minister letters in Yr Eurgrawn Wesleyaidd, 1829, are valuable sources for the early history of the denomination, for the first Wesleyan Methodist society at Denbigh met in the house of his father, Henry Carter.
CASSON, LEWIS (1875 - 1969), actor and theatrical producer major in the Royal Engineers (1916-19); he was wounded, and awarded the M.C. Having resumed his career in London, he directed jointly with the author, G.B. Shaw, the original production of St. Joan (1924), his wife playing the leading role. He and his wife toured South Africa in 1928, and the Middle East, Australia and New Zealand in 1932. In 1938 he produced Henry V at Drury Lane for Ivor Novello
CECIL family Allt-yr-ynys, Burghley, Hatfield, Northampton) the Welsh. Towards the end of the 15th century, however, RICHARD CECIL, the first to use the modern form of the name, married into the Brecknock family of Vaughan of Tyle-glas. His younger son DAVID CECIL (died 1541) migrated, with some of his Brecknock 'cousins,' to Northamptonshire, where he entered the service of Henry VII, became a Yeoman of the Chamber, 1507, acquired the stewardship of several
CHARLES, HENRY (1778 - 1840), theologian, littérateur, and mathematician Of Ffynnon Loyw in the parish of Brawdy, Pembrokeshire. Born in 1778, he was the son of Henry Charles, farmer, a prominent 18th century Independent. He was educated at the Independent chapel school at Trefgarn Owen, where, later, he was a valuable member. He possessed considerable ability, and wrote a large number of letters on theological matters to Welsh periodicals, such as the Efangylydd and
CHRISTOPHER, JACOB (fl. 1655-90), Independent preacher out a licence to preach in Kenfig at Lewis Alward's house. In Henry Maurice's report of 1675, he is named as one of the teaching elders of the Cilfwnwr church (Tirdoncyn). The records of that church say that he died 31 May 1690.
CLARE family The important part played by this famous house in the affairs of South Wales calls for a précis of its history in so far as it is concerned with Wales. A kinsman of the Conqueror, Richard (died 1090?), was granted lands in Kent (Tonbridge) and the lordship of Clare in Suffolk. Of this Richard's five sons, the best known is GILBERT I (died 1115?), who was placed by Henry I in Ceredigion (see under
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 Ann, daughter of Henry Lewis of Greenmeadow, Tongwynlais, 3 April 1850; she died 6 April 1885, leaving a son Godfrey Lewis Clark (died 1924) and a daughter. Clark died at his home, Tal-y-garn, near Pont-y-clun, 31 January 1898.
CLEMENTS, CHARLES HENRY (1898 - 1983), musician
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

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