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CHANCE, THOMAS WILLIAMS (1872 - 1954), minister (B) and principal of the Baptist College, Cardiff Born 23 August 1872, son of Thomas Chance (died 5 January 1873, 29 yearss old) and Mary (born Williams; died 15 August 1908, 79 years old) of Erwood, Brecknock. He received his early education at Pen-rhiw school, but because of his father's early death he had to leave school when he was 11 years old to earn his living as a farm servant and maintain the family for the next 9 years, initially at
CHAPPELL, EDGAR LEYSHON (1879 - 1949), sociologist, a pioneer of town and village redevelopment, and writer of Cardiff, 1939; Historic Melingriffith, 1940; The Government of Wales, 1943; Wake up, Wales, a Survey of Home Rule Activities, 1943; Cardiff's Civic Centre, a Historical Guide, 1946. He married Alice, daughter of Caleb Thomas, Ystalyfera, and they had one son. Chapell died 26 August 1949 at Cardiff.
CHARLES, BERTIE GEORGE (1908 - 2000), scholar and archivist He was born 13 February 1908 at Penparc, near Trefin in Pembrokeshire. He was brought up at Tresinwen Farm and educated at Henner elementary school and Fishguard County School, where he was taught by D. J. Williams as his English master. In the autumn of 1926 he entered the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, to study English, and graduated with an exceptionally good first class honours
CHARLES, GEOFFREY (1909 - 2002), photographer daughter. These pictures appeared on 23rd January 1937. Later he was to team up with a promising young reporter named John Roberts Williams to photograph stories for Y Cymro. The two had first been introduced by a mutual acquaintance at Pwllheli football field in 1938. Geoff regarded John Roberts Williams as the man who made him realise and value his Welsh heritage. John Roberts Williams was best man at
CHARLES, JOHN ALWYN (1924 - 1977), minister (Cong.) and college lecturer Alwyn Charles was born at Colombia Row, Llanelli, 18 December 1924, the son of David John Charles and his wife. He received his elementary education at St. Paul and Lakefield, Llanelli, prior to entering Woodend Secretarial College. From that college he went to serve as a clerk at the solicitors' office of Jennings and Williams. He began to preach at Capel Als, Llanelli, where the Reverend D. J
CHARLES, THOMAS (1755 - 1814), Methodist cleric of religion; they were paid £10 a year out of funds collected ad hoc by the Methodist societies in North Wales. Later on, Charles decided that such schools should meet weekly, on Sundays. Charles was not 'the founder of the Sunday School ' [even in Wales - see M. J. Rhys and Edward Williams (1750 - 1813) ], and indeed some Welsh Methodists opposed this innovation; but it was he, by his organizing
CHARLES, WILLIAM JOHN (1931 - 2004), footballer John Charles was born at 19 Alice Street, Cwmbwrla, Swansea, on 27 December 1931, the first of the three sons and two daughters of Edward Charles (1898-1972), a steel construction worker, and his wife Lily (née Burridge, 1902-1984). John Charles was a remarkable footballer and the first Welshman to win fame in the international arena. He was undoubtedly the finest player raised in Wales in the
teulu CLARE under Morgan ap Caradog ap Iestyn - and built a castle at Llantrisant to control the commote. Even more important was his son GILBERT IV (1243 - 1295), ' the Red Earl ' born 2 September 1243; his first wife was Alice de Valence, of the family which had succeeded the Marshal's in the earldom of Pembroke. The Red Earl's father and grandfather, absorbed in the baronial struggle with the Crown, had been
teulu CLARK, printers and publishers 1903 to Enoch Williams. James Clark died 12 June 1859. A fortnight after The Chepstow Weekly Advertiser began to appear, another Monmouthshire newspaper started its career - The Illustrated Usk Observer; this was printed and published at Usk by JAMES HENRY CLARK (1818 - 1913), another son of James Clark. J. H. Clark and his elder brother GEORGE A. CLARK (who, however, died at Chepstow 12 April 1835
CLIVE, HENRIETTA ANTONIA (1758 - 1830), traveller and scientific collector (1785-1848), the eldest, was followed by Henrietta Antonia Clive (1786-1835)). Known in the family as 'Harry' she became a proficient harpist and later married Sir Watkin Williams Wynn (1772-1840). Another daughter, Charlotte Florentia Clive (1787-1866) known as 'Charly', was born in Florence and later became governess to Queen Victoria. Finally there arrived another son, Robert Henry Clive (1789-1854
CNEPPYN GWERTHRYNION (fl. 13th century), poet and grammarian fits in well with the statement by Gwilym Ddu, and suggests that the leading poet-teachers were in possession of a written grammar in Welsh as early as the 13th century if not earlier (see G. J. Williams, Gramadegau'r Penceirddiaid, xx-xxi).
COLEMAN, DONALD RICHARD (1925 - 1991), Labour politician singing. A small group of his political papers is in the custody of the National Library of Wales. Coleman married (1) in 1949 Phyllis Eileen Williams, who died in 1963 - they had one son; and (2) in January 1966 Margaret Elizabeth Morgan - they had one daughter. His second wife survived him. Their home was at 'Penderyn', 18 Penywern Road, Bryncoch, Neath. Donald Coleman died on 14 January 1991 and was

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