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CAMPBELL, RACHEL ELIZABETH (1934 - 2017), teacher and community activist World War. Under her leadership, Mount Stuart School raised its profile across the United Kingdom and became a model for multicultural education. In 1994, Prince Charles attended the school's annual St David's Day Eisteddfod and in 1998, she was invited to meet Nelson Mandela on his only visit to Wales. Her inclusive outlook and progressive views caught the attention of powers beyond Wales, and in the
CARNE, Sir EDWARD (c. 1500 - 1561), lawyer and diplomat The son of Howel Carne of Nash and a descendant of the princes of Gwent. Educated at Oxford (where he graduated B.C.L. 1519, D.C.L. 1524), he became principal of Greek Hall in 1521. In 1530 he was attached in a legal capacity to the embassy of the earl of Wiltshire (Anne Boleyn's father) to explain to Charles V at Bologna the king's reasons for repudiating Catherine of Aragon; thence he
CHARLES, BERTIE GEORGE (1908 - 2000), scholar and archivist degree in June 1929. In 1930 he was awarded a university studentship to undertake research work and in 1932 was awarded the MA degree of the University of Wales with distinction for a thesis on 'Norse Relations in Wales'. This work was subsequently published by the University of Wales Press Board in 1934 and was notably well received. Meanwhile Bertie Charles, the recipient of a prestigious University
CHARLES, DAVID (1812 - 1878), Calvinistic Methodist minister Son of Thomas Rice Charles and Maria his wife, and grandson of Thomas Charles; born at Bala 23 July 1812. He was educated at Bala and Chirk, and after reading with the rector of Llanycil matriculated at Jesus College, Oxford, in May 1831, proceeding to the degree of B.A. in 1835. He was associated with his brother-in-law, Lewis Edwards, in the inception in 1837 of the preparatory school which
CHARLES, DAVID (1762 - 1834), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and hymn-writer Born 11 October 1762 at Pant-dwfn, Llanfihangel Abercowin, Carmarthenshire, son of Rees and Jael Charles and brother of Thomas Charles. He was apprenticed to a flax-dresser and rope-maker at Carmarthen, and spent some time in Bristol learning his craft. He learned by heart Edward Young's Night Thoughts while still a mere boy and was converted through reading the sermons of Ralph Erskine
CHARLES, DAVID (1803 - 1880), Calvinistic Methodist minister and hymnist Son of David Charles I, was born at Carmarthen. He was educated at the grammar school and the Presbyterian college at that town, and entered his father's business. Subsequently, like him, he began to preach in middle age, and was ordained to the ministry in 1851. He held a number of connexional offices, being joint-secretary of Trevecka college from 1842 to 1852, and moderator of the Association
CHARLES, EDWARD (Siamas Gwynedd; 1757 - 1828), writer He was born at Clocaenog, Denbighshire - christened there 23 September 1757 - son of Edward (yeoman) and Margaret Charles. Hardly anything is known of his early life; it is said that he was schooled by David Ellis, curate of Derwen, and was afterwards apprenticed at Ruthin (Jenkins, Thomas Charles, ii, 390). In 1789 at latest he was working in a draper's shop in London. On 5 April 1790 he was
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CHARLES, GEOFFREY (1909 - 2002), photographer Geoff Charles was born on 28 January 1909 in Brymbo near Wrexham. His father John Charles (1870-1941) served as Secretary of the Brymbo Water Company from 1912-1941. His mother Jane Elizabeth (née Read) (1874-1968) was a Queen's Nurse. He grew up with younger brother Hugh and sister Margaret in the Old Vicarage, a house near the railway, a subject for which he soon developed a life-long
CHARLES, HENRY (1778 - 1840), theologian, littérateur, and mathematician Of Ffynnon Loyw in the parish of Brawdy, Pembrokeshire. Born in 1778, he was the son of Henry Charles, farmer, a prominent 18th century Independent. He was educated at the Independent chapel school at Trefgarn Owen, where, later, he was a valuable member. He possessed considerable ability, and wrote a large number of letters on theological matters to Welsh periodicals, such as the Efangylydd and
CHARLES, JAMES (1846 - 1920), Independent minister and theologian Born 6 December 1846 at Gelli-Fach near Llanddowror, son of David and Mary Charles. Shortly after his birth the family moved to Waunmabli farm, about three miles south-west of Carmarthen, where he was brought up with a view to the ministry. From Parc-y-felfed preparatory school (at Carmarthen) he went to the Independent college at Bala, and after four years there received a call to Llanuwchllyn
CHARLES, JAMES (1851 - 1906), painter Born at Warrington but of Welsh origin, his father having come from Caernarvonshire. He studied at Hatherley's Studio and at the Royal Academy Schools, London. Charles was a frequent exhibitor at the Royal Academy and other London galleries for almost forty years of his life. Two of his works - ' The Village Road ' and ' Winter,' both of them oil paintings - are in the National Museum of Wales

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