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teulu CHERLETON at Grey Friars, Shrewsbury, next to his wife, who died between 1345 and 1353?, being the second founder of the house. JOHN CHERLETON (1362 - 1401) Great-grandson of the above-mentioned John, was Justice of North Wales, 1387, and defeated Glyn Dwr, 1401. EDWARD CHERLETON (1371 - 1421), brother and heir of John, was commissioner for the defence of the Marches, 1403, defeated the earl of
CHIDLAW, BENJAMIN WILLIAM (1811 - 1892)
teulu CLARE II, earl of Hertford, died without a son in 1152, and his lands passed to his brother ROGER (died 1173). Roger strove with little success to withstand the ' Lord ' Rhys ap Gruffydd (1132 - 1197) in Ceredigion. His marriage is of great importance. His daughter-in-law was Amicia, daughter and co-heiress of William earl of Gloucester and lord of Glamorgan, and thus the house of Clare became involved
teulu CLARK, printers and publishers he settled at Chepstow (1823). A little later his son, WILLIAM EDWARD CLARK (died April 1891), became partner, and it was the firm of Clark and Son which began (23 June 1855) to print and publish The Chepstow Weekly Advertiser, which continued to appear until 1916. The business was continued by WILLIAM EDWARD NEW CLARK and EMMELINE CLARK, son and daughter of William Edward Clark; it was sold in
CLEMENTS, CHARLES HENRY (1898 - 1983), musician Charles Clements was born at 12 Little Darkgate street, Aberystwyth on 18 August 1898, the son of a Devon man, Frederick William Clements, and his wife Annie Maria (died 1946), who hailed from Bala. He displayed musical promise at an early age, and had organ lessons from G. Stephen Evans and A. C. Edwards, and piano lessons from Charles Panchen. His immense talent brought him the Royal College of
CLIVE, HENRIETTA ANTONIA (1758 - 1830), traveller and scientific collector speak Italian and once in India she began learning Persian (the language of the princely courts) and 'Hindustani', becoming adept enough in the former to attempt a translation of lines by the fourteenth-century Persian poet Hafez or Hafiz (his work was first translated into English by William Jones in 1771). Such preparations reveal her as someone with a desire to learn about rather than simply
CLOUGH, Sir RICHARD (bu farw 1570), merchant, and (for a period) 'factor' for Sir Thomas Gresham in Antwerp 'Sir' which prefaces his Christian name in some accounts. He entered the service of Sir Thomas Gresham, London; in 1552 he is settled at Antwerp as 'factor' for Gresham, to whom (and to William Phayre) he wrote frequently; the original letters are in the P.R.O. - see e.g. Cal. S.P. For., 1566-68. It is said that it was he who suggested to Gresham the advisability of building the 'Exchange' in London
CLYNNOG, MORGAN (1558 - after 1619), seminary priest Abergavenny to reconcile his father, William Baker, to the Roman Catholic church, and the old man rebuked him for gabbling his Latin. He sent young men abroad to the seminaries at Douai and Valladolid, and worked in cordial co-operation with the Jesuits and with other secular priests for at least thirty-seven years. He was made an assistant to the archpriest by 1600, and when last heard of, on 2 December
CLYNNOG, MORYS (c. 1525 - 1581), Roman Catholic theologian His birthplace, in all probability, was Clynnog-fawr inCaernarfonshire. He went up to Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated B.C.L. in 1548. After being successively chaplain to (cardinal) Reginald Pole, rector of Orpington, Kent., and dean of Shoreham and Croydon, he was, in 1556, appointed rector of Corwen, by Goldwell, bishop of St Asaph. On the death of William Glyn in 1558, he was raised
CNEPPYN GWERTHRYNION (fl. 13th century), poet and grammarian I.G.E., 1925 ed., clxvii et seq.). In Cardiff MS. 38, a manuscript containing the ' Pum Llyfr Kerddwriaeth ' (the Welsh medieval 'ars poetica') in the hand of William Cynwal, and also in other 16th century copies of the same work, ' Cnypyn Gwerthryniawn ' (or Gwerthryniawc) is mentioned as a grammarian, and his name precedes that of Dafydd Ddu Athro. As the bardic grammar was based on Donatus, this
COLLINS, WILLIAM LUCAS (1815 - 1887), cleric and author
CONDRY, WILLIAM MORETON (1918 - 1998), naturalist, conservationist and writer William Condry, or Bill as he was often known, was born in Birmingham on 1st March 1918 to Joseph Condry, a gem setter, and his wife Agnes, who were Clarionites, pacifists and active members of the Independent Labour Party. He had a brother, Dennis, and a sister Kathleen (who died at the age of 104). Condry studied at Birmingham University where he gained a BA in French, Latin and History in 1939

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