Dictionary of Welsh Biography

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 pertinent…) has been the foundation of all subsequent work on the history of the county, and was the foundation of his own Land of Morgan, 1883. The thick volume of Glamorgan pedigrees (Limbus Patrum Morganiae et Glamorganiae), 1886, is another monument of painstaking research. In short, there can have been few migrants who identified themselves so completely with the land of their adoption. Clark married
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
CLYDOG (fl. 500?), saint and martyr the time of king Ithel ap Morgan (c. 750) was acquired by the see of Llandaff. No other church named after this saint is recorded. His festival was observed on 3 November
CLYNNOG, MORGAN (1558 - after 1619), seminary priest seminary priests, and in 1588 he appears on lord Burghley's list of priests in Wales as ' Clneycke Morgan.' He is known to have said Mass at Llandilo in 1590 and to have ministered elsewhere in Carmarthenshire. He was at Margam in 1591. In 1596 he was living with Jenkin Turberville at Pen-llin, Glamorganshire, and was still there in 1602. In 1606 the Benedictine, David Augustine Baker, brought him to
COLEMAN, DONALD RICHARD (1925 - 1991), Labour politician singing. A small group of his political papers is in the custody of the National Library of Wales. Coleman married (1) in 1949 Phyllis Eileen Williams, who died in 1963 - they had one son; and (2) in January 1966 Margaret Elizabeth Morgan - they had one daughter. His second wife survived him. Their home was at 'Penderyn', 18 Penywern Road, Bryncoch, Neath. Donald Coleman died on 14 January 1991 and was
CONDRY, WILLIAM MORETON (1918 - 1998), naturalist, conservationist and writer feelings. His writings led readers to visualise, understand and respect the natural world in a way that had incalculable benefits for the study of natural history and for conservation. His topographical and historical writings about Wales encouraged a similar sympathy and understanding. His exemplar in writing as well as in life was Henry David Thoreau, about whom he wrote his first book, Thoreau (1954
CONSTANTINE, GEORGE (c . 1500 - 1560?), cleric 1549, and prebendary of Llangamarch. Anticipating official policy, he had the high altar at S. Peter's, Carmarthen, pulled down and replaced by a table, thereby occasioning much consternation. Though an ardent Protestant and registrar of the diocese, he played a leading part in the opposition to bishop Ferrar, at whose trial he sat as a judge with bishop Henry Morgan. Later in Mary's reign, however
CONWAY family Botryddan, Bodrhyddan, The Conways were of English origin, descended from Sir William Coniers, ' Knight of War ', high constable of England under William the Conqueror. Sir HENRY CONWAY, son of Sir Hugh Conway, who married Ellen (or Angharad), daughter of Sir Hugh Crevecoer, lord of Prestatyn, was the first known to have settled in Wales, and his son, Richard, succeeded as lord of Prestatyn. In contrast to his

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