Dictionary of Welsh Biography

CARADOG (fl. 1135) LLANCARFAN, man of letters He is best known from the reference at the end of 'The History of the Kings of Britain' by Geoffrey of Monmouth. Writing about 1135, Geoffrey allows Caradog to use as literary material the story of the kings who ruled in Wales after 689, when he closes his detailed narrative, and similarly gives leave to William of Malmesbury and Henry of Huntingdon to recite the history of the English kings. The
CARADOG ap GRUFFYDD ap RHYDDERCH (d. 1081) the article Morgan ap Hywel, who in course of time established himself in Gwynllwg and became the ancestor of the later Welsh lords of Caerleon.
CARADOG ap IESTYN (fl. 1130), founder of the family of 'Avene' in Glamorgan four sons, Morgan, Maredudd, Owain, and Cadwallon; the first of these succeeded him in the lordship of Afan.
CARADOG FYNACH (d. 1124), recluse see the hermit Elgar about this time. Early in the reign of Henry I a change took place in the local population; Flemish settlers dislodged the native Welsh of Rhos and Caradog's relations with his new neighbour, Tancard of Haverford West, proved none too easy. He died on Low Sunday (13 April), 1124; despite the efforts of Tancard to retain the body, it was taken to S. Davids and buried in the north
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
CHANCE, THOMAS WILLIAMS (1872 - 1954), minister (B) and principal of the Baptist College, Cardiff Erwood and later in the neighbourhood of Cathedin. He was baptised 17 April 1887 in Hephzibah church, Erwood, and at the urging of his pastor, John Morgan, he began to preach. He resumed his education, spending 2 years at a grammar school held by Daniel Christmas Lloyd (Congl. minister), in his home, Hampton House, Glasbury, and then at the Baptist College and University College, Cardiff, where he
CHARLES, EDWARD (Siamas Gwynedd; 1757 - 1828), writer attacked it (though without specifically naming it) in the Cylchgrawn edited by Morgan John Rhys, and in 1797 he published a pamphlet, Epistolau Cymraeg at y Cymry, against it. Several of his friends, in London and in Wales, disapproved of this work, and in 1806 there appeared Amddiffyniad i'r Methodistiaid, by Thomas Roberts of Llwyn'rhudol, under the pseudonym Arvonius. Charles was a lively and bitter
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

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