Dictionary of Welsh Biography

MACKWORTH, CECILY JOAN (1911 - 2006), writer, poet, journalist and traveller died in action on the Western Front on 1 November 1914, two days after becoming a Major and less than a year after his second child was born. Cecily and her baby sister moved with their mother to Somerset. In 1922 Dorothy Mackworth married the equine artist Charles Edward Gatehouse. The family settled in Sidmouth, Devon. After a succession of governesses, Cecily Mackworth boarded for two years at
MACKWORTH, Sir HUMPHREY (1657 - 1727), industrialist and parliamentarian Born in January 1657, the son of Thomas and Anne Mackworth, of Betton Grange, Shropshire. (His grandfather and namesake was prominent both as a soldier and as a politician on the Puritan side in the Civil War). Mackworth matriculated from Magdalen College, Oxford, 11 December 1674, entered the Middle Temple on 10 June 1675, was called to the Bar in 1682, and was knighted by Charles II on 15
MACLEAN, Sir EWEN JOHN (1865 - 1953), first professor of obstetrics and gynaecology at the Welsh National School of Medicine support of his sister Agnes in his public duties, and her devoted care during his last years. He died on 13 October 1953 and following a funeral service at Windsor Place Presbyterian Church, Cardiff he was laid to rest in the family grave in Llangunnor churchyard near Carmarthen, close to where David Charles, the hymnwriter and Sir Lewis Morris, the poet also lie. Inside the church is a window depicting
MAREDUDD ap RHOSER (fl. c. 1530), poet who may have been a native of South Wales. No proof is available for connecting him, as Iolo Morganwg did, with Meisgyn (Miskin) in Glamorgan. Examples of his work exist in MSS., including a love poem, an awdl in praise of Ewyas, an elegy to Sir Charles Herbert, another to reconcile William Herbert of Colebrook with William Siôn ap Rhoser of Wern-ddu, and poems in praise of William Evans
MARSHALL, WALTER CHARLES (1932 - 1996), scientist
MATHEW family Castell y Mynach, marriage, the estates of David Jenkins of Hensol. The line ended with CECIL MATHEW who married (in 1708), Charles, first lord Talbot of Hensol, the lord chancellor. From this branch came TOBIE MATHEW (1546 - 1628), bishop of Durham in 1595 and archbishop of York in 1606, and his son Sir TOBIE MATHEW (1577 - 1655), courtier and translator of S. Augustine's Confessions.
MATHIAS family Llwyngwaren, Llwyn Gwaring, Llangwaren, Lamphey energy, and a zealous missioner (fluent in Welsh and English alike), but rash and intractable; a full account of him will be found in Cymm., xlv. He was twice married; for his wives and children, see Cylchgrawn Cymdeithas Hanes y Methodistiaid Calfinaidd, loc. cit. The deaths without surviving heirs of David Mathias's brothers led to the Llwyngwaren estates falling to David's second son CHARLES
MAURICE family Clenennau, Glyn (Cywarch), Penmorfa 1670), Porkington, who defended Harlech castle for Charles I, and Maurice Owen, to whom his mother gave lands in Anglesey. The heir of Sir John Owen was WILLIAM OWEN (buried 30 January 1667/8). He married Catherine, only child of Lewis Anwyl, Parc, Llanfrothen; his heir was Sir ROBERT OWEN, Clenennau, Porkington, and Llanddyn. Sir Robert Owen was Member of Parliament for Merioneth from 1681 to 1685
MAURICE, HENRY (1634 - 1682), Independent minister daughter of the Royalist squire Jeffrey Glynn of Gwynfryn, by Pwllheli. Following a short stay in Shrewsbury prison on a charge of debt - he was throughout his life somewhat careless in money matters - he moved to Much Wenlock in the same county; there he was when Charles II published his Indulgence of 1672; Maurice at once took out three licences, one for his own house, one for another house in the same
MEYRICK, Sir SAMUEL RUSH (1783 - 1848), antiquary being produced about that time - a creditable work; a new edition appeared in 1907. He collaborated with Charles Hamilton Smith in the production of Costume of the Original Inhabitants of the British Islands (London, 1815), a folio work containing twenty-four coloured plates. Having failed to purchase the ruins of Goodrich castle, near Ross-on-Wye, Meyrick bought the hill opposite and built upon it a
MILLS, HENRY (1757 - 1820), a pioneer in Welsh congregational singing Born on Tan-'rallt farm, near Llanidloes. As a young man his voice attracted the attention of Thomas Charles of Bala, when on a visit to Bethel, the Methodist chapel at Llanidloes. On the recommendation of Charles the Monthly Meeting gave Mills charge of the singing of the Methodists in the district, although the novelty of the idea and Mills's youth and ability to play several instruments were
MORGAN family Llantarnam, educated at Jesus College, Oxford (matriculated May 1616, B.A. July 1619), was instrumental in fixing the Welsh Jesuit headquarters at Cwm, Herefordshire (1635). In the second Bishops' War (1640) he was given a military commission and allowed to raise contributions from his co-religionists - activities that provoked heated debate in the Long Parliament, to which Charles I retorted by making him a baronet

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