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COTTON, Sir STAPLETON (6th baronet, 1st viscount Combermere), (1773 - 1865), field-marshal relating to the family estates in the West Indies. James Henry Cotton, dean of Bangor, was the field-marshal's first cousin, their fathers being brothers.
CRADOC, WALTER (1610? - 1659), Puritan theologian Born 1610? (1606? in D.N.B.) in Trefela, Llangwm, Monmouth, of good family. He inherited an estate worth £601 a year and is believed to have been educated at Oxford. He was appointed curate at Peterston, Glamorganshire, and later curate to William Erbery at S. Mary's, Cardiff. There he fell under the displeasure of the authorities on account of his Puritanical tendencies and in 1634 his licence
teulu CRAWSHAY, industrialists Cyfarthfa This family had a preponderating influence on the industrial welfare of the people of South Wales, particularly through the heavy industries connected with the manufacture of iron, coal and iron-ore mining, etc. [In the earlier generations, the name appears as 'Crashaw' and 'Crashay'. RICHARD CRAWSHAY (1739 - 1810), Business and Industry Born at Normanton, near Leeds, son of William Crawshay, a
CUNEDDA WLEDIG (fl. 450?), British prince tradition, rounded off the work of the family by the final defeat of the Irish of Anglesey. All this may be reasonably accepted as showing how, about the time that the Roman authority came to an end in Britain, a Brythonic Christian chief from the banks of the Forth drove the Goidels from north-west Wales and laid the foundation of the Gwynedd of the Middle Ages. It has been suggested that Cunedda and his
CYNAN ap HYWEL (bu farw 1242?), prince was the son of Hywel Sais (died 1204), who was established by his father, the Lord Rhys (1132 - 1197), at St Clears, and who usually acted with Maelgwn ap Rhys in the family quarrels. Cynan is first heard of in Maelgwn's train, when, in 1210, his cousins, Rhys and Owain, captured him in their attack upon their uncle's camp at Cilcennin. His next appearance is in 1223, when, still in opposition to
CYNDDELW BRYDYDD MAWR (fl. 1155-1200), leading 12th century Welsh court poet his work - that of the panegyric awdl strongly influenced by the poetry of Aneirin and Taliesin and that of the Powysian englynion. In the course of a bardic disputation early in Cynddelw's career (The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales, 154a), he was reminded that he had sprung from no family of poets, and although his opponent, Seisyll Bryffwrch, was concerned in minimizing his achievements, he refers
CYNWAL, RICHARD (bu farw 1634), poet of Maes y Garnedd (?), Capel Garmon, Denbighshire His work, written in the strict metres, consists chiefly of poems to various North Walian gentry. He took pride especially in his position as family poet at Rhiwedog mansion (near Bala), and a bardic controversy ensued between Richard Phylip and himself because of this. He composed an eulogy to Tomas Prys of Plas Iolyn and an elegy to Siôn Phylip
DAFYDD ab IEUAN ab IORWERTH (bu farw 1503), bishop of St Asaph According to the pedigrees, he was descended from Tudur ap Rhys Sais. The family was seated in Trefor, near Llangollen, perhaps in ' Gavella Rosseriet ' (G. P. Jones, Extent of Chirkland, 15). He became warden of Ruthin and abbot of Valle Crucis, succeeding in the latter office John ap Richard (Peniarth MS 176 (53)). As abbot, he was a liberal patron of the bards, and both Gutun Owain and Guto'r
DAFYDD ap DAFYDD LLWYD (1549), poet and member of the landed family
DAFYDD (DAVID) ap GRUFFYDD (bu farw 1283), prince of Gwynedd -east Wales, together with properties in Cheshire and elsewhere in England, brought to him as a result of his marriage - part of the general settlement with Edward - to Elizabeth Ferrers of the family of Derby and a distant kinswoman of the king. During the next five years David's grievances against the English authorities were on a par with those of Llywelyn himself; and indeed it was David who
DAFYDD ap GWILYM (fl. 1340-1370), poet He was probably born at Brogynin in the parish of Llanbadarn Fawr, Ceredigion, son of Gwilym Gam ap Gwilym ab Einion, and thus a member of one of the most influential families in South Wales in the 14th century. His forbears had been king's men for generations. The original home of the family was Cemais in Pembrokeshire, where they are known to have been settled since the beginning of the 12th
DAFYDD AP GWILYM (c. 1315 - c. 1350), poet lords in south-west Wales, and the Fitzmartin family in the lordship of Cemais in particular, since the twelfth century, and some of the names suggest that they were patrons of poets and were even skilled in the craft of poetry themselves. Dafydd was a native of the parish of Llanbadarn Fawr in north Ceredigion, and according to tradition he was born in a house called Brogynin near Penrhyn-coch. Some

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