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BURTON, PHILIP HENRY (1904 - 1995), teacher, writer, radio producer and theatre director citizen. In some ways, the demanding schoolmaster who had told his pupils that unless they had read the entire Bible twice, they could not consider themselves educated, seemed an unlikely figure to emigrate to New York at the age of fifty. Yet his career had already demonstrated that he was adaptable. He was a bachelor, the now famous actor he saw as his son was in America, and P. H. Burton had a
BURTON, URIAH, 'Big Just' (c.1926 - 1986), bare-knuckle fighter and activist (now Powys), where he and many of his family are buried. Noah married Minderena Lee from a branch of the Romany Lee family who had also made Wales their home. Their son Noah (aka Othea), who was baptised in Pontesbury, Shropshire in 1865, married Ashella (aka Data), the daughter of Caradoc Price and Emily née Slender, another well-known Romany family already well established in Wales. Noah and
teulu BUTE (marquesses of Bute, Cardiff Castle, etc.), his South Wales estate in 1938. The 4th marquess, who, like his father, was a Knight of the Thistle, died 25 April 1947. The collection of Glamorgan manorial and other records accumulated by the family is now at the N.L.W.
BUTLER, Lady ELEANOR CHARLOTTE (1739 - 1829), one of the 'Ladies of Llangollen' intertwined initials and their letters were jointly signed. They spoke of 'we' and 'our'. Since the twentieth century the exact nature of the relationship between the women has been debated but now it is generally accepted that they were in a same-sex life partnership. As the years passed Butler became almost blind and was led around the house by Ponsonby as depicted in a painting by Lady Delamere. Butler
CADOG saint (fl. c. 450), one of the chief figures of the Celtic church in Wales of the famous Celtic monastery at Llancarfan (originally Nantcarfan) in the Vale of Glamorgan. Here he became renowned for his great learning, and for his work as a teacher of saints. Topographical evidence may indicate a more certain record of the provenance of a saint's cult than does the literary evidence now available to us, and the distribution of ancient churches named after S. Cadog shows a
CADWALADR (bu farw 1172), prince up his share of Ceredigion, with his new castle of Llanrhystud, to his son Cadfan. Finally, there was in 1152 a fresh quarrel with Owain, which led to his expulsion from Anglesey and a five years exile in England. His English connections now stood him in good stead. It is known that he attested, as 'Welsh,' or 'North Welsh King,' charters executed by earl Randolph in favour of the abbeys of Chester
CALLAGHAN, LEONARD JAMES (1912 - 2005), politician secretary of the constituency Labour Party, Bill Headon. Callaghan won the nomination against George Thomas by a single vote - because he wore his navy uniform for the interview according to Thomas. Cardiff South had been a Conservative seat since 1918, except a brief period when Arthur Henderson won it for Labour in 1929-31, but in the 1945 election James Callaghan (as he was now known) took the seat
CANNON, MARTHA MARIA HUGHES (1857 - 1932), doctor and politician from now on. Legally therefore, Angus and Martha's relationship should have ended but it was soon evident that it had not. On her return to Salt Lake City in 1888, Martha had embarked on a new career. She had established a training college for nurses, the first in Utah. But no sooner had she embarked on her new career than she had to abandon it. Once again, she was pregnant. Once again, to protect
CARADOG FYNACH (bu farw 1124), recluse Pembrokeshire, which was to be his next place of retreat, he found too open to Scandinavian attack, and the bishop of S. Davids gave him instead a hermitage at the church of S. Ismaels in Rhos, now known as Haroldston S. Issels. Here he spent the rest of his life, though room must be found for a visit to Bardsey, if he is to be identified with the 'master Caradog, a very learned man' who came to the island to
CARANNOG (fl. 550?), saint represents him as the son, or grandson, of Cunedda Wledig; beyond this, there is little which can be relied upon in the pious fragments of biography which have been handed down, though it is safe to assume that his travels extended to Ireland and southwestern Britain. A gravestone, once in the churchyard, now in the church wall of Egremont, near Llawhaden, bears the inscription CARANTACUS; it is of this
teulu CARTER Kinmel, afresh (June 1660) by the king, was, for a short time, Member of Parliament for Denbigh, was steward of the manor of Denbigh (July 1660), governor of Holyhead (November 1660), and sheriff of Denbighshire in 1665. He died 28 November 1676 (being then '57' - a very dubious statement), and was buried in the (now ruined) chancel of the old church of S. George (in Welsh, Cegidiog or Llansantsiôr). His
teulu CECIL Allt-yr-ynys, Burghley, Hatfield, Northampton) as a follower of the Norman Robert Fitzhamon in his conquest of the lordship of Glamorgan in the 11th century; he acquired the family seat of Allt-yr-ynys (now in Herefordshire, though the estate extends into Monmouthshire) by marriage into the family of the dispossessed Welsh owners. From this time on the 'Sitsyllts' generally married into Norman families and are frequently found fighting against

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