Y Bywgraffiadur Cymreig

CONDRY, WILLIAM MORETON (1918 - 1998), naturalist, conservationist and writer Exploring Wales (1970), Snowdonia (1987), Wales, the National Trust (1991) and Welsh Country Essays (1996). Wildflower Safari, the Life of Mary Richards (1998) is the biography of the Meirionnydd botanist who became one of Kew's greatest plant collectors in tropical Africa. Condry wrote an autobiography, Wildlife - My Life, published in 1995. He was an accomplished wildlife photographer and many of his
teulu CONWAY Botryddan, Bodrhyddan, marriage. The direct line ended with Sir JOHN CONWAY (1575 - 1641), son and heir of the last-mentioned. John Conway, on his death without issue in August or September 1641. During the reign of James I and up to the eve of the Civil War the family showed distinct Romanist leanings, both Mary, Sir John's wife, and WILLIAM CONWAY, his brother who succeeded him at Botryddan, figuring prominently in the
COOMBE TENNANT, WINIFRED MARGARET (Mam o Nedd; 1874 - 1956), delegate to the first assembly of the League of Nations, suffragette, Mistress of the Robes of the Gorsedd of the Bards, and a well-known medium Born the only child of George Edward Pearce-Serocold and his second wife, Mary Richardson of Derwen Fawr, Swansea. In 1895 she married Charles Coombe Tennant, and they lived in Cadoxton Lodge, near Neath. She became, thereby, daughter-in-law to Gertrude Barbara Rich Collier and sister-in-law to Dorothy Coombe Tennant who married the famous explorer H.M. Stanley). During World War I she was deputy
COOMBES, BERT LEWIS (1893 - 1974), coal miner and writer move was more of a return than a new beginning. In comparison to Coombes's experience of Treharris, Resolven was in a more rural area which clearly suited the Herefordshire boy. Coombes married Mary Rogers - a local woman of similar age - at St David's Church, Resolven, in September 1913. As was commonplace in the area, Mary was a Welsh speaker and over the years, Coombes acquired enough Welsh to
COPPACK, MAIR HAFINA (1936 - 2011), author and columnist team, published in 201l. She twice came close to winning the Prose Medal at the National Eisteddfod. Her entry for the Abergwaun National Eisteddfod in 1986 was published under the title Merch Morfydd. According to R. Geraint Gruffydd, one of the adjudicators, the work is 'an excellent autobiography … the writing is consistently lively and interesting and often thrilling.' Rhiannon Davies Jones
COTTON, JAMES HENRY (1780 - 1862), dean of Bangor cathedral and educationist precentor of Bangor cathedral, 1810-38, rector of Llandyfrydog, Anglesey, 1814, and Llanllechid, 1821, dean of Bangor and rector of Gaerwen in Anglesey and Gyffin, Conway, 1838. He married (1) 14 April 1810, Mary Anne, daughter of bishop Majendie of Bangor (she died October 1823 leaving one son, afterwards the Rev. H. J. Cotton, rector of Dalbury, Derby); and (2) 6 June 1826, Mary Laurens, daughter of
COX, ARTHUR HUBERT (1884 - 1961), geologist Born 2 December 1884 in Birmingham, son of Arthur James Cox and his wife Mary. He was educated at Edward VI Grammar School, Birmingham, and then at Birmingham University where he graduated B.Sc. in 1904 and M.Sc. 1905, and subsequently gained the degrees of Ph.D. Strasburg and D.Sc. Birmingham. He was a F.G.S. and was awarded the Lyell Medal of the Geological Society in 1948. He began his career
teulu CRAWSHAY, industrialists Cyfarthfa and the discovery of the Henry Bessemer converter radically transformed the making of steel. He died 10 May 1879 and was buried at Vaynor parish churchyard. He and his wife, Rose Mary Crawshay, helped in the provision of schools and in providing books to read. His sons carried on the business under the name of Messrs. Crawshay Bros. until their absorption by Messrs. Guest, Keen, and Nettlefold (1902).
CYFFIN, ROGER (fl. c. 1587-1609), a poet of Golden Grove, Carmarthenshire. Two of his free metre poems and a number of cywyddau and englynion are preserved in manuscript. The strict metre poems include eulogies, elegies, begging poems (to persons from North and South Wales), religious, moral, and love poems. Poetic controversies or ymrysonau took place between him and Gruffudd Hafren (Cwrtmawr MS 206B (101)), Richard Davies, bishop of S
DAFYDD ab EDMWND (fl. 1450-1490), gentleman and bardic master of a chieftain's generosity, and of the scholarship of priest and abbot; and laud of God the Father, God the Son, and the Virgin Mary for all their goodness. When he is not excessively technical, his works bear the imprint of a master, for his imagination and vision are splendid and his control of his technique is complete.
DAFYDD DDU ATHRO HIRADDUG (fl. before 1400), a poet NLW MS 3029B, that he was a man 'o Degeingyl,' i.e. from what is modern Flintshire. Dr. John Davies, Mallwyd (died 1644), states, in Peniarth MS 49, that he was 'archdeacon of Diserth'; as Dafydd Ddu is called 'Athro' (teacher, etc.) and that term sometimes connotes (as is said in the bardic grammar) a particular type of cleric, it may be that Dr. Davies was recording some tradition which he had
DAFYDD EPYNT (fl. c. 1460), poet most probably from Brecknock. He wrote poetry to the gentry of his period, and also to Christ, the Virgin Mary, and S. Cynog.

Canlyniadau chwilio

85 - 96 of 1632 for "Mary Davies"