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BRYDGES, Sir HARFORD JONES (1764 - 1847), diplomatist and author
BRYNACH (fl. late 5th century - early 6th century), saint The chief source for the Brynach legend is a 'life' composed probably in the 12th century and now preserved in B.M. Cotton Vesp. MS. A. xiv. The wealth of local details makes it almost certain that the author was a native of Cemais in north Pembrokeshire. The 'life' reveals nothing of the saint's antecedents, but Welsh tradition remembers him as Brynach Wyddel (the Irishman). After a pilgrimage
BULKELEY-OWEN, FANNY MARY KATHERINE (1845 - 1927), author
teulu BUTE (marquesses of Bute, Cardiff Castle, etc.), described in the D.N.B. He was educated at Harrow and Christ Church, Oxford. He became mayor of Cardiff, 1890, president of Cardiff University College, 1890, and was in many other ways closely identified with the cultural life and commercial prosperity of Cardiff. He was a president of the national eisteddfod held at Rhyl, 1892. A man of scholarly tastes, he was the author of an English translation of the
CADOG saint (fl. c. 450), one of the chief figures of the Celtic church in Wales author probably knew very little at such a late date of the true facts of Cadog's life, but he is likely to have inherited much local tradition. Cadog is said to have travelled into Cornwall and Brittany and visited Ireland and Scotland and finally to have been carried away in a miraculous manner to Beneventum in southern Italy. His 'Vita' makes it clear that his great achievement was the establishment
CADWGAN (bu farw 1241), bishop of Bangor he had some repute as a scholar and author, a book of homilies in particular being attributed to him.
CADWGAN FFOL (fl. 13th century), bard One englyn by him is preserved in Peniarth MS 113. This commemorates a victory gained by the Welsh over the English at Degannwy. The same englyn is attributed to Ednyfed Vychan in Peniarth MS 99. It is preserved also in Peniarth MS 122 but the author is not given. The englyn was printed in Y Greal, London, 1805 (167), and there attributed to Cadwgan Ffol. In Owen, Cambrian Biography, Enwogion
CAMPBELL, ELIZA CONSTANTIA (1796 - 1864), author
CARADOG (fl. 1135) LLANCARFAN, man of letters lay in a quite different direction. At the end of a life of Gildas in a 12th century Cambridge manuscript, Caratoc of Nancarban (the correct form, which became Llan carfan under foreign influence) declares himself in Latin verse to be the author and the same couplet occurs in a recently discovered life of Cadog. The latter, concerned with the patron saint of Llancarfan, would come naturally from a
CARRINGTON, THOMAS (Pencerdd Gwynfryn; 1881 - 1961), musician and printer Thonau y Methodistiaid Calfinaidd a Wesleaidd (1929). He was also a keen eisteddfodwr and he served as the general secretary of the 1933 National Eisteddfod at Wrexham. His most important musical compositions include Concwest Calfari (SATB anthem 1912), Hen weddi deuluaidd fy nhad (contralto/baritone solo 1910), and Gwynfryn and Bryn-du (hymn tunes). He was also the author of the handbook Yr Ysgol Gân
CASSON, LEWIS (1875 - 1969), actor and theatrical producer major in the Royal Engineers (1916-19); he was wounded, and awarded the M.C. Having resumed his career in London, he directed jointly with the author, G.B. Shaw, the original production of St. Joan (1924), his wife playing the leading role. He and his wife toured South Africa in 1928, and the Middle East, Australia and New Zealand in 1932. In 1938 he produced Henry V at Drury Lane for Ivor Novello
teulu CLARE therefore fought for the king at Evesham (1265). He then however again changed sides, and indeed was the chief author of the compromise of 1267. In the same year was signed the treaty of Montgomery, which acknowledged Llywelyn as Prince of Wales and gave him (among other gains) the lordship of Brecknock. Llywelyn's lands in Brecknock now marched with the Clare lands, and a further question arose - if

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