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teulu BROUGHTON Marchwiel, BROUGHTON (c. 1544 - c. 1614), Ralph Broughton's grandson (and heir to the Plas Isa estate), added to it that of Marchwiel Hall by his marriage to the daughter of Henry Parry of Basingwerk and Marchwiel, and was sheriff of Denbighshire in 1608. His eldest son Sir EDWARD BROUGHTON was knighted in 1618 (18 March). In 1639 (22 January) he was pardoned (on the petition of his wife and the certificate of judge
BRUCE, CHARLES GRANVILLE (1866 - 1939), mountaineer and soldier , third daughter of Col. Sir Edward Fitzgerald Campbell in 1894. Their only child, a son, died young. Mrs. Bruce died in 1932 and Charles Granville on 12 July 1939. A memorial to him was placed in Abbottabad (Pakistan) church in 1942 by the 5th and 6th Gurkhas.
BRYAN, ROBERT (1858 - 1920), poet and composer Born 6 September 1858 at Camddwr, Llanarmon-yn-Iâl, Denbighshire, son of Edward and Elinor Bryan. He was a pupil and a pupil teacher at the Wrexham British School, and, later, entered Bangor Normal College. He became a teacher at Whitland, Carmarthenshire; Corwen; and Tal-y-sarn, Caernarfonshire He afterwards was a student at Aberystwyth University College and in Oxford, where he planned to take
BRYANT, TOM (1882 - 1946), harpist Bryans's accompaniment on the harp, he travelled extensively in south Wales. He became an A.R.C.M. in 1906, and in the same year received King Edward VII's command to play the harp at the opening of a new dock in Cardiff. With the ' Golden Quartette ' he held concerts at the principal towns of Britain. He wrote music for the harp, and composed variations on the tunes ' Merch y Felin ' and ' Merch Megan
BULMER, JOHN (1784 - 1857), Independent minister Born Yorkshire; educated at Rotherham under Dr. Edward Williams; became in 1813 pastor of Albany Meeting, Haverfordwest, where he remained till 1840. The rest of his life was spent in the ministry at Rugeley, Bristol, Newbury, and (after an interval) at Langmore and Ruxton near Ross. He died 26 November 1857. While at Haverfordwest, Bulmer published some ten volumes of verse, sermons, and other
BUTTON, Sir THOMAS (bu farw April 1634), admiral and explorer He was the fourth son of Miles Button, sheriff of Glamorgan in 1565, 1571, 1589, and Margaret, daughter of Edward Lewis of Van. The Buttons had become possessed of Worleton, in the parish of S. Lythans, Glamorganshire, an alienated manor of the see of Llandaff. Their house at first was probably on the Dog Hill moated grange site, just across the Nant Golych, from the parish of S. Lythans and in
CADWALADR ap RHYS TREFNANT (fl. 1600), poet Very little is known of him, and very little of his work is extant. His poetical compositions are mainly addressed to members of Montgomeryshire families; we have one to Sir Edward Herbert, lord of Powys, and some others to Huw ap Iefan of Mathafarn and Lewys Gwyn.
CADWALADR, EDWARD (fl. 16th century), poet
CADWALADR, HUW (fl. 17th century), poet Several of his poems are preserved, most of them in free metre, among them a carol on the death of Rowland Vaughan of Caer-gai and an elegy on the death of Edward Morris.
CALLAGHAN, LEONARD JAMES (1912 - 2005), politician (1973). Callaghan was one of the few politicians who did not expect Labour to win the 1970 general election. He was proved right and the Conservatives held power for the next four years. Callaghan won easily in Cardiff South East and had an excellent agent in John Edward Brooks throughout the 1970s. He made him a member of the House of Lords in 1979 as Baron Brooks of Tremorfa. During the Heath
CARNE, Sir EDWARD (c. 1500 - 1561), lawyer and diplomat appears in the county muster for the Boulogne campaign in 1544, but he spent the entire period of the siege as resident ambassador in Brussels. He was in retirement under Edward VI, save for membership of the Council of Wales (c. 1551) and occasional consultation on diplomatic issues. Under Mary he served a second term as sheriff (1554), and as M.P. for Glamorgan (1554) he provided the first known
CARNES, EDWARD (1772? - 1828), bookseller and printer It is possible that he started printing in June 1796; he may have been a bookseller before that. One of the best examples of his work is his edition, 1823, of David Jones, Blodeu-Gerdd Cymry. His printing office was in Whitford Street in 1828; William Carnes, who was a bookbinder in Well Street at the same time, may have been his brother. Edward Carnes died 25 May 1828, of typhus fever, aged 58.

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