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CARRINGTON, THOMAS
(Pencerdd Gwynfryn; 1881 - 1961), musician and printer
Born at Gwynfryn, Bwlch-gwyn, near
Wrexham
, Denbighshire, 24 November 1881, the son of John Carrington (a descendant of one of the families that migrated from Cornwall to work in the Denbighshire lead mines) and Winifred (née Roberts), a native of Bryneglwys. He spent his early years at Gwynfryn and was educated at Bwlch-gwyn school. After leaving school he was apprenticed as a printer at Hughes
CARTER-JONES, LEWIS
(1920 - 2004), Labour politician
Committee and, passionately interested in all kinds of sports, captain of the college, university and county hockey XI. He was head of the business studies department at Yale Grammar School, later Technical School,
Wrexham
, and he also became a rugby union referee. During World War II, he served in the RAF, becoming flight-sergeant navigator. He had joined the Labour Party in 1940 while a student and
CHARLES, DAVID
(1762 - 1834), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and hymn-writer
); and again Pregethau, etc. (
Wrexham
, 1860). In 1879 Detholion o Ysgrifeniadau (a selection of his works) was published at
Wrexham
. His hymns were published in the small collections of the period, e.g. Anthem y Saint… gan Evan Dafydd (Carmarthen, 1807); Hymnau ar Amrywiol Achosion (Carmarthen, 1823), etc. His eminence as a hymn writer is assured, and his greatest hymns are to be found in all the Welsh
CHARLES, GEOFFREY
(1909 - 2002), photographer
Geoff Charles was born on 28 January 1909 in Brymbo near
Wrexham
. His father John Charles (1870-1941) served as Secretary of the Brymbo Water Company from 1912-1941. His mother Jane Elizabeth (née Read) (1874-1968) was a Queen's Nurse. He grew up with younger brother Hugh and sister Margaret in the Old Vicarage, a house near the railway, a subject for which he soon developed a life-long
CRADOC, WALTER
(1610? - 1659), Puritan theologian
was revoked. He now moved to
Wrexham
, where he created such an impression that the North Wales Puritans became known as the ' Cradockians.' The next five years found him working hard in the Marches. In 1635-6 he spent some time with Richard Symonds and Richard Baxter at Shrewsbury. On 8 May 1638 he was arrested while attending divine service at the house of Mrs. De Lamars Veasy in London and, with
DAFYDD COWPER (GOWPER)
(fl. c. 1500), poet
His poems are preserved in Peniarth MS 76, Peniarth MS 312, Llanstephan MS 118, Cardiff MS. 7, Cardiff MS. 49, B.M. Add. MS. 14997, and NLW MS 728D. Among them is a cywydd which John Puleston the elder ('Sion pilstwn hen') of Bersham caused to be written to John, abbot of Valle Crucis, and an englyn to the steeple of
Wrexham
church, 1507.
DAVIES
family, smiths
HUW DAVIES, smith, was living at Groes-foel, Esclusham, in the 17th century. He was buried in the churchyard at
Wrexham
, 2 September 1702. A handrail of exquisite design in the choir of
Wrexham
church and a small gate in Malpas churchyard (Cheshire) are attributed to him. He and his wife, Eleanor, had four sons, ROBERT (died 1748/9), JOHN (died 1755), Huw, and Thomas, and six daughters (Anne
DAVIES, BRYAN MARTIN
(1933 - 2015), teacher and poet
two years of compulsory military service, in the North Staffordshire Regiment, after which he began his career as a Welsh teacher in Ruabon School near
Wrexham
, moving later to be lecturer in Welsh at Yale Sixth Form College in the town itself, where he worked until his early retirement. He married Gwenda on 12 August 1958, and the couple made their home in Ruabon, where their two daughters, Nia and
DAVIES, EDWARD
(1796 - 1857), Independent minister and college tutor
Born 13 March 1796 at Ashton, Salop, but brought up at
Wrexham
and educated at a grammar school at Chester; he was a protégé of William Williams of Wern (1781 - 1840), at whose suggestion he began preaching. Entering Llanfyllin Academy, then under George Lewis (1763 - 1822), in 1817, he was appointed student-assistant in 1818 and classical tutor in 1819; he married Lewis's daughter Sara. In 1821
DAVIES, EDWARD
(Iolo Trefaldwyn; 1819 - 1887), poet and eisteddfodwr
the Rhyd-y-mwyn lead works. Then, for a time, he was a coal merchant in Liverpool, but this venture failed. He now settled in
Wrexham
, where he became traveller for a firm of Scottish publishers. He was a faithful frequenter of eisteddfodau and a regular competitor - too regular, indeed, to produce any work of real merit. In 1870 he won the chair at the Liverpool Gordofigion eisteddfod for his
DAVIES, ELLIS WILLIAM
(1871 - 1939), solicitor and politician
Born 12 April 1871 at Gerlan, Bethesda, Caernarfonshire, son of David Davies, a quarry official, and Catherine (Williams), Tyddyn Sabel, Bethesda. He was educated at Carneddi school, Bethesda, Liverpool College and a private school in Liverpool. After six years as a clerk in insurance offices at
Wrexham
and Sheffield he proceeded to qualify as a solicitor, gaining first-class honours in 1899 and
DAVIES, GEORGE MAITLAND LLOYD
(1880 - 1949), Calvinistic Methodist minister and apostle of peace
Liverpool at an early age. In 1908 he was appointed manager of the branch in
Wrexham
, where later he took a commission in the Royal Welch Fusiliers (territorials). He gave up his work in 1913 in order to become the secretary of the Welsh Town Planning and Housing Trust and about this time he resigned his commission; at the end of the year he took up full-time work, without pay, with the Fellowship of
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