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CHARLES, GEOFFREY (1909 - 2002), photographer section in Oswestry. Shortly afterwards he moved to Newtown to run the Montgomeryshire Express and contribute photos to the Welsh language weekly newspaper Y Cymro. The first story he covered for Y Cymro was of Lewis Valentine shortly before sentencing for his part in burning down the bombing school in Penyberth. Lewis Valentine declined to be photographed so instead Geoff took photographs of his
CHARLES, THOMAS (1755 - 1814), Methodist cleric parish church of Bala. His widow survived him by a mere three weeks, dying on 24 October They left two sons, Thomas Rice Charles, father of David Charles III, and of Jane Charles who became the wife of Lewis Edwards, who continued the family business, and David James Charles, who practised at Bala as a physician.
CHRISTOPHER, JACOB (fl. 1655-90), Independent preacher There is evidence that he was a recognized preacher before the Restoration, but not actually set apart for the work; he was 'silenc'd' (to use Calamy's term) either before or by the Act of Uniformity of 1662 (before, more likely). He is first associated with Mawdlam near Margam; he and Lewis Alward of Kenfig were both persecuted under the penal code of Clarendon about 1664, but in 1672 he took
teulu CLARK, printers and publishers William Howell, Chepstow. For some years he had a book-selling shop in Cardiff also. In August 1875 he began to publish a monthly, The Usk Gleaner and Monmouthshire Record, which continued to appear until the end of 1878. The Usk business was continued by his daughter, ELIZA BLANCHE CLARK. WILLIAM HENRY CLARK, eldest son of J. H. Clark, left Usk in 1866 for Brecon, where he founded The Brecon County
CLARK, GEORGE THOMAS (1809 - 1898), engineer and antiquary Ann, daughter of Henry Lewis of Greenmeadow, Tongwynlais, 3 April 1850; she died 6 April 1885, leaving a son Godfrey Lewis Clark (died 1924) and a daughter. Clark died at his home, Tal-y-garn, near Pont-y-clun, 31 January 1898.
CLYNNOG, MORYS (c. 1525 - 1581), Roman Catholic theologian 1567. In 1577 he was appointed warden. The following year Owen Lewis, archdeacon of Hainault and later bishop of Cassano, succeeded in establishing the English College in Rome, and Morys Clynnog was elected rector with a staff of three Jesuits to assist him in teaching the English and Welsh students. Clynnog was alleged to have shown favouritism to the Welsh, and a riot occurred, but there is a
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
COOMBES, BERT LEWIS (1893 - 1974), coal miner and writer
CORBETT, JOHN STUART (1845 - 1921), solicitor and antiquary coalfield, and with ' the war of the railways,' when the Bute estates were managed by that dominating personality, William Thomas Lewis, the 1st lord Merthyr. Corbett's chief recreations were painting and gardening, but after 1890 he devoted much of his leisure to historical studies, chiefly on the lordship of Glamorgan (collected under the title Glamorgan and published, with a memoir, in 1925); those
COTTON, JAMES HENRY (1780 - 1862), dean of Bangor cathedral and educationist Samuel Fisher, M.D., of Bath. (She died 1828, leaving two daughters, of whom the younger married Evan Lewis, afterwards dean of Bangor cathedral, 1884-1902.) Dean Cotton died 28 May 1862, and was buried in Bangor cathedral churchyard. Cotton entirely identified himself with every aspect of Church work in the diocese of Bangor; he was secretary of the Christian Knowledge Society, chairman of the Bangor
CRADOCK, Sir MATHEW (1468? - 1531), royal official in South Wales imprisoned by him, at Swansea, and another seeking to be reconciled to him (Lewis and Jones, Mynegai). He was twice married - first to Alice, daughter of Philip Mansel of Oxwich castle, and second to Katherine Gordon, widow of Perkin Warbeck. By his first wife he had a daughter, Margaret, who married Richard Herbert of Ewyas, Herefordshire, and became the mother of William Herbert, who was created earl of
CRADOCK, RICHARD (fl. 1660-90), Nonconformist preacher, of the Independent persuasion He was reported by the Llandaff authorities in 1669 as teacher at the Newton Nottage conventicle in company with the Baptist Lewis Thomas, which seems to show Baptists and Independents arriving at a concordat under the stress of persecution; in 1672 he did not take out a licence to preach under the Declaration of Indulgence, but Watkin Cradock did so at his own house in Nottage, this Cradock

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