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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 had a great interest in Welsh culture, though she never completely mastered the Welsh language. She died 31 August 1956 at her home in 18 Cottesmore Gardens, Kensington. She wished for neither flowers nor mourning at her funeral. On 17 September a memorial service was held in All Saints by the Tower, where James Nicholas represented the Welsh Baptist Union and Sir John Cecil Cecil-Williams the
COOMBES, BERT LEWIS (1893 - 1974), coal miner and writer political magazine, Welsh Labour Outlook, in January 1935. Two years later, Coombes's literary ambition became evident, and the working miner published his first short story, 'The Flame', in the magazine New Writing. The London-based, left-wing publishers were clearly impressed by Coombes's ostensibly authentic accounts of working life in the south Wales coalfield. John Lehmann - founder of New Writing
CORBETT, JOHN STUART (1845 - 1921), solicitor and antiquary Born 16 May 1845, eldest son of John Stuart Corbett and Elizabeth, daughter of James Evans of Gortha (Radnorshire); the father had come to Cardiff in 1841 as agent to his relative, the 2nd marquis of Bute. He was educated at Cheltenham, admitted a solicitor in 1867, and practised in partnership in Cardiff; he held the office of clerk to the Llandaff bench of magistrates. In 1872 he married
teulu CORY Two distinct families of industrialists in South Wales have borne this surname. This family, who founded Cory Brothers and Company Ltd., is to be differentiated from the family of John Cory I and his sons, who founded John Cory and Sons, Ltd. JOHN CORY (1828 - 1910), shipowner, coalowner, and philanthropist Business and Industry Philanthropy Born 28 March 1828 at Bideford, Devon, eldest son of
teulu CORY Two distinct families of industrialists in South Wales have borne this surname. This family, John Cory and Sons, Ltd. is to be differentiated from the family of Richard Cory I and his sons who founded the business Cory Brothers Ltd. JOHN CORY I (died 1891), Business and Industry of S. Julian's, near Newport, Monmouth, head of the firm of 'John Cory, Sons and Co.', was born at Padstow, Cornwall
COTTON, JOHN, printer - gweler EDDOWES, JOSHUA
COTTON, Sir STAPLETON (6th baronet, 1st viscount Combermere), (1773 - 1865), field-marshal came of the house of Salusbury of Llewenni - pedigree in J. E. Griffith, Pedigrees, 222. Sir John Salusbury (died s.p. 1684) left the estate to his sister HESTER (died 1710), who married Sir Robert Cotton, 1st baronet, of Combermere (died 1713); their son Sir THOMAS COTTON, 2nd baronet (died 1715), married Philadelphia Lynch. They had three children, of whom the youngest, Hester, married John
COX, JOHN (1800 - 1870), printer, bookseller, and postmaster G. Eyre Evans, Aberystwyth and its Court Leet (1902), provides a fairly complete list of the publications from the John Cox press. Among them were two newspapers - The Demetian Mirror; or Aberystwyth Reporter and Visitants' Informant …, which appeared once a week from 15 August 1840 till 31 October 1840, and The Aberystwyth Chronicle and Illustrated Times, a weekly paper published between 9 June
CRAWSHAY, Sir GEOFFREY CARTLAND HUGH (1892 - 1954), soldier and social benefactor ' and until 1947 he was an impressive mounted herald bard. The University of Wales in 1953 conferred on him the honorary degree of LL.D. He was High Sheriff of Monmouthshire in 1939, a deputy Lieutenant and J.P. for the county, and a knight of the Order of St. John. After his involuntary retirement he continued for another two years a losing battle with illness and died suddenly at a Cardiff hotel on
CROWTHER, JOHN NEWTON (Glanceri; 1847 - 1928), schoolmaster
CYFFIN, ROGER (fl. c. 1587-1609), a poet latter part of his life. No proof of the preceding statements remains, and only one of his poems refers to himself - NLW MS 3050D (612). In it the poet bade farewell to his home in Gartheryr, Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant, and to that particular district of Denbighshire. Some misfortune had befallen him, he had sold his land, and was ready to leave for South Wales, to live under the patronage of John Vaughan
CYNGAR (fl. 6th century), saint Two ' Vitae S. Cungari ' are known to modern biographers. The oldest, recently discovered in fragmentary form at Wells, Somerset, was composed probably in the 12th century; the second is a fuller but later version added to the 1516 printed edition of John of Teignmouth's 'Vitae SS.' They relate that, after founding Congresbury in Som., S. Cungar crossed to Glamorgan and landed on the banks of the

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