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CONDRY, WILLIAM MORETON (1918 - 1998), naturalist, conservationist and writer Exploring Wales (1970), Snowdonia (1987), Wales, the National Trust (1991) and Welsh Country Essays (1996). Wildflower Safari, the Life of Mary Richards (1998) is the biography of the Meirionnydd botanist who became one of Kew's greatest plant collectors in tropical Africa. Condry wrote an autobiography, Wildlife - My Life, published in 1995. He was an accomplished wildlife photographer and many of his
teulu CONWAY Botryddan, Bodrhyddan, marriage. The direct line ended with Sir JOHN CONWAY (1575 - 1641), son and heir of the last-mentioned. John Conway, on his death without issue in August or September 1641. During the reign of James I and up to the eve of the Civil War the family showed distinct Romanist leanings, both Mary, Sir John's wife, and WILLIAM CONWAY, his brother who succeeded him at Botryddan, figuring prominently in the
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 Born the only child of George Edward Pearce-Serocold and his second wife, Mary Richardson of Derwen Fawr, Swansea. In 1895 she married Charles Coombe Tennant, and they lived in Cadoxton Lodge, near Neath. She became, thereby, daughter-in-law to Gertrude Barbara Rich Collier and sister-in-law to Dorothy Coombe Tennant who married the famous explorer H.M. Stanley). During World War I she was deputy
COOMBES, BERT LEWIS (1893 - 1974), coal miner and writer move was more of a return than a new beginning. In comparison to Coombes's experience of Treharris, Resolven was in a more rural area which clearly suited the Herefordshire boy. Coombes married Mary Rogers - a local woman of similar age - at St David's Church, Resolven, in September 1913. As was commonplace in the area, Mary was a Welsh speaker and over the years, Coombes acquired enough Welsh to
CORBETT, JOHN STUART (1845 - 1921), solicitor and antiquary Blanche, the elder daughter of James Williams Evans, vicar of Costessey, near Norwich, the son of a former rector of Llandough, near Cardiff. In 1890, on the death of his brother James Andrew Corbett (infra), he was appointed solicitor to the Bute estate; he held that position until his retirement in 1917. His tenure of the office coincided with the period of greatest prosperity in the South Wales
COTTON, JAMES HENRY (1780 - 1862), dean of Bangor cathedral and educationist precentor of Bangor cathedral, 1810-38, rector of Llandyfrydog, Anglesey, 1814, and Llanllechid, 1821, dean of Bangor and rector of Gaerwen in Anglesey and Gyffin, Conway, 1838. He married (1) 14 April 1810, Mary Anne, daughter of bishop Majendie of Bangor (she died October 1823 leaving one son, afterwards the Rev. H. J. Cotton, rector of Dalbury, Derby); and (2) 6 June 1826, Mary Laurens, daughter of
COX, ARTHUR HUBERT (1884 - 1961), geologist Born 2 December 1884 in Birmingham, son of Arthur James Cox and his wife Mary. He was educated at Edward VI Grammar School, Birmingham, and then at Birmingham University where he graduated B.Sc. in 1904 and M.Sc. 1905, and subsequently gained the degrees of Ph.D. Strasburg and D.Sc. Birmingham. He was a F.G.S. and was awarded the Lyell Medal of the Geological Society in 1948. He began his career
teulu CRAWSHAY, industrialists Cyfarthfa and the discovery of the Henry Bessemer converter radically transformed the making of steel. He died 10 May 1879 and was buried at Vaynor parish churchyard. He and his wife, Rose Mary Crawshay, helped in the provision of schools and in providing books to read. His sons carried on the business under the name of Messrs. Crawshay Bros. until their absorption by Messrs. Guest, Keen, and Nettlefold (1902).
CUDLIPP, PERCY (1905 - 1962), journalist Standard, London, 1929-31. In 1931 he was promoted assistant editor and became editor in 1933. His move to daily national newspapers came with his appointment as editorial manager of The Daily Herald in 1938, and then editor in 1940 (when he succeeded Francis Williams who became Prime Minister Attlee's press secretary at Downing Street in 1946) until 1953. His sojourn on The Daily Herald often subjected
CYNWAL, WILLIAM (bu farw 1587), poet best-known of his bardic controversies is the long one between Edmwnd Prys and himself. He also produced works of heraldry (e.g. Bangor MS. 5943), a chronicle (Peniarth MS 212), a grammar (Cardiff MS. 38), and part of a dictionary, extant in the hand of Edward Williams (Iolo Morganwg) (NLW MS 13142A). A copy of his will, made shortly before his death, is kept at N.L.W. He was buried at Ysbyty Ifan
DAFYDD ab EDMWND (fl. 1450-1490), gentleman and bardic master of a chieftain's generosity, and of the scholarship of priest and abbot; and laud of God the Father, God the Son, and the Virgin Mary for all their goodness. When he is not excessively technical, his works bear the imprint of a master, for his imagination and vision are splendid and his control of his technique is complete.
DAFYDD DDU ATHRO HIRADDUG (fl. before 1400), a poet maintaining that these were the work of Einion and the fourth (Peniarth MS 20, written c. 1400 or, possibly, earlier) stating that it was Dafydd Ddu who invented them. Some cywyddau are also attributed to him. Possibly the most interesting work associated with his name is the Welsh translation of the 'Office of the Virgin Mary' which was printed in The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales. Dafydd Ddu is not

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