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BURTON, RICHARD (1925 - 1984), stage and film actor portrayal of Richard Burton. Marriages: i) Sybil Williams, 5 February 1949. They had two daughters: Kate (born 1957) and Jessica (born 1959). Divorced 5 December 1963. ii) Elizabeth Taylor, 15 March 1964. Divorced 26 June 1974. iii) Elizabeth Taylor, 10 October 1975. Divorced 30 July 1976. iv) Suzy Hunt, 21 August 1976. Divorced January 1983. v) Sally Hay, 3 July 1983. He was made a CBE in 1970; he won
BURTON, URIAH, 'Big Just' (c.1926 - 1986), bare-knuckle fighter and activist Uriah Burton was born c.1926, the second son of Ernest Burton (c.1892-1960), a Romany horse dealer, and his wife Emily Dora (née Buckland, c.1895-1951). Uriah's siblings were: Data Ashella Burton (b. c.1919), Matilda 'Tillie' (b. c. 1920), Hosea Noah 'Othea' Burton (b. c.1921), Esmeralda Burton (b. c.1925), Frederick Burton (b. c.1929), Dawn (b. 1931) and William 'Billy' Burton (b. c.1938). Uriah
teulu BUTE (marquesses of Bute, Cardiff Castle, etc.), This note will concern itself only with the Welsh associations of this influential family, whose main seat is in the Island of Bute, Scotland. WILLIAM HERBERT (died 1570) The son and heir of Richard Herbert of Ewyas, by Margaret, daughter and heiress of Sir Matthew Cradock of Swansea, was created baron Herbert of Cardiff and earl of Pembroke in 1551. The Herberts earls of Pembroke (of the second
BUTLER, Lady ELEANOR CHARLOTTE (1739 - 1829), one of the 'Ladies of Llangollen' was possible to sketch her full face without being seen. The picture was not completed until three years later after both women had died. Parker visited Plas Newydd and sketched the library with all the items on the table exactly as it had been and then transposed her sketches of their faces onto imagined bodies. The completed picture was then engraved by Richard James Lane and sold by Parker to
CADWALADR (bu farw 1172), prince He was the third son of Gruffudd ap Cynan (died 1137) and his wife Angharad. He is first heard of in 1136, when, on the death of Richard Fitz Gilbert, lord of Ceredigion, his elder brother, Owain Gwynedd, and he invaded the province and took the five northern castles, including Aberystwyth. At the end of the year they returned with a large force of mail-clad knights and foot soldiers and swept
CADWGAN (bu farw 1111), prince first left with nothing more than the vill he had received in frank marriage with his wife, but later received Ceredigion. This he lost in 1110, as the result of further misdeeds of Owain; Ceredigion was given to Gilbert Fitz Richard and became a Norman lordship, while Cadwgan sank into a landless royal pensioner. Again there was a turn of fortune, when his brother Iorwerth was murdered in 1111 by his
CAMPBELL, ELIZA CONSTANTIA (1796 - 1864), author Born 8 January 1796, she was the daughter of Richard Pryce of Gunley near Forden (one of whose ancestors, Capt. Richard Pryce, was a prominent Montgomeryshire Roundhead). She was twice married: first (1826) to Commander Robert Campbell, R.N. (died 1832), a cousin of Thomas Campbell the poet - one of their sons was Lewis Campbell the Greek scholar; and secondly (1844) to Capt. Hugh Morrieson
teulu CARTER Kinmel, Kinmel, near Abergele, once the property of a Lloyd family (Yorke, Royal Tribes, 2nd edn., 113), changed hands when Alice, heiress of Gruffudd Lloyd, married Richard ap Dafydd ab Ithel Fychan, of Plas Llaneurgain (Northop). Their daughter and heiress, Catherine, married Pyrs Holland (died 1552), of Faerdref (see Holland families, No. 5); thus was founded the house of Holland of Kinmel (ibid., No
teulu CECIL Allt-yr-ynys, Burghley, Hatfield, Northampton) the Welsh. Towards the end of the 15th century, however, RICHARD CECIL, the first to use the modern form of the name, married into the Brecknock family of Vaughan of Tyle-glas. His younger son DAVID CECIL (died 1541) migrated, with some of his Brecknock 'cousins,' to Northamptonshire, where he entered the service of Henry VII, became a Yeoman of the Chamber, 1507, acquired the stewardship of several
CHALONER, THOMAS (bu farw 1598), Ulster King of Arms Some particulars of this painter, poet, antiquary, and actor are given by W. J. Hemp in ' Two Welsh Heraldic Pedigrees, with notes on Thomas Chaloner, Ulster King of Arms,' in Y Cymm., xl. He was the fourth son of Robert Chaloner of Denbigh by his wife Dowce, daughter of Richard Mathew of Lleweni Green, Denbighshire. As Hemp points out, several members of the family were students of heraldry and
CHARLES, DAVID (1803 - 1880), Calvinistic Methodist minister and hymnist of Thomas Rice Charles - she died 1833; (2) Ann, daughter of Richard Roberts, Liverpool. He died at his son's house, 10 May 1880, and is buried at Ulverston, Lancashire.
CHARLES, PHILIP (1721? - 1790), Presbyterian minister Little is known about him; he was a nephew of Philip David, and therefore presumably a Monmouthshire man. The name appears on the list of Carmarthen Academy students in 1745. In 1749 he succeeded Richard Rees as pastor of the newly incorporated congregation at Cefn-coed-cymer, an offshoot of Cwm-y-glo. He was an Arminian, and probably later on an Arian. D. 19 May 1790. His uncle's diaries have

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