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COKE, THOMAS (1747 - 1814), Wesleyan Methodist minister became John Wesley's chief lieutenant, superintendent of the Methodist Episcopal Church of America, and the 'father' of Methodist missions. He died at sea on 12 May 1814, while on his way to India to establish a mission there. In 1800 he was chiefly responsible for establishing Welsh Wesleyan Methodism as a part of the missionary work of the Methodist connexion, in much the same way as preachers had
COLEMAN, DONALD RICHARD (1925 - 1991), Labour politician . He famously succeeded in persuading the Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson to visit Neath in 1968 to hear at first-hand complaints about the closure of two local coal mines. He was a PPS, 1964-70 (including serving as PPS to George Thomas when he was the Secretary of State for Wales, 1968-70, and thus in effect minister of state for Wales; he also served under Eirene White and Cledwyn Hughes), an
COLLINS, WILLIAM LUCAS (1815 - 1887), cleric and author , 308, 394-5). Collins was born at Oxwich in Gower, son of the Rev. John and Elizabeth Collins ', and christened 23 May 1815. He was and was at Jesus College, Oxford; his father and grandfather held various benefices in Gower (Foster, Alumni Oxonienses); his great-grandfather may have been the 'John Collins of Swansea, gent.' named in Foster. He himself was rector of Cheriton in Gower, 1840-67. He
CONSTANTINE, GEORGE (c . 1500 - 1560?), cleric dissemination of Lutheran literature (L. & P., iv, 4396). During these years he was active in smuggling contraband literature into England. He was arrested by Sir Thomas More for this activity in 1531 and, under pressure, informed on some of his confederates. He escaped early in December 1531 and fled again to Antwerp. Returning to London after More's death he entered the service of Sir Henry Norris, who was
teulu CONWAY Botryddan, Bodrhyddan, predecessors, JENKYN CONWAY (died about 19 September 1432), grandson of Richard, married a Welshwoman, Marsli, daughter of Maredudd ap Hywel ap Dafydd of Cefn-y-fan, ancestor of the Wynn family of Gwydir, and the accession of Elizabeth I found the family firmly established as an integral part of Flintshire society. JOHN CONWAY (died 1578), grandson of Thomas Conway (died before 1526), and great-great
CONWAY, JOHN (c.1545 - 1606), high sheriff - gweler CONWAY
COOK, ARTHUR JAMES (1883 - 1931), miner and trade union leader Born at Wookey, Somerset, 22 November 1883, son of Thomas Cook, a serving soldier. After leaving the elementary school he worked as a farm labourer. At 17 he was preaching with the Baptists; at 19 he went to work to the Lewis Merthyr Colliery, Trehafod, and developed extreme socialist views which led to his severing his relations with his religious denomination. He attended courses at the Labour
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 , aged 10, RICHARD, aged 8, and THOMAS, aged 5, to Cardiff. Richard Cory and his two eldest sons, JOHN and RICHARD, eagerly seized the advantages now offered by the opening up of collieries and the improved methods of transport and of export in the forties in order to extend their business. They moved to the docks district about 1842 and added a ship-broking business to that of the chandler and
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

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