Dictionary of Welsh Biography

MARKS, DAVID (1788 - 1871), musician Born in the parish of Cilrhedyn, Carmarthenshire. By trade a stonemason, he was also a competent musician who performed good service to the community by holding music classes in various districts. Two of his hymn-tunes, ' Cannon Street ' and ' Manchester,' were published in Haleliwia Drachefn, 1855. He died 3 October 1871 at Ffynnondrain, parish of Newchurch, near Carmarthen.
MASON, LILIAN JANE (1874 - 1953), actress 1932, Lilian and Edmund's son, Samuel, died of heart failure in New York. Lilian and Edmund lived out their last years in Brighton until, on 28 January 1953, they both died within hours of each other, Edmund aged 79 and Lilian 78. They were buried on 3 February at Patcham cemetery, Brighton. Their devotion to each other is recorded on their grave with the words 'In their death they were not divided'.
MATTAN, MAHMOOD HUSSEIN (1923 - 1952), seaman and victim of injustice -minute reprieve by the Home Secretary David Maxwell Fyfe, but was denied despite his heart-felt letter pleading for mercy. Mahmood Hussein Mattan was executed by Albert Pierrepoint on 3 September 1952, the last man to be hanged at Cardiff Prison. For the next 46 years the Mattan family fought to clear his name, living in the shadow of an injustice which threatened to tear them all apart. In 1969, a
MATTHEWS, DANIEL HUGH (1936 - 2020), Baptist minister and college principal Hugh Matthews was born on 25 October 1936 at 6 Heol Bryn-gelli, Treboeth, Swansea, the second of two sons of Daniel Eustis Matthews (d. 1975), coal miner and road worker, and his wife Annie Ada (née Phillips, d. 1994). His elder brother, Thomas Kenneth, was born in 1930. The family church was Caersalem Newydd, whose minister, the Revd W. H. Rowlands, had a formative influence on Hugh as a young
MATTHEWS, MARMADUKE (1606 - 1683?), ejected minister Born at Swansea, 1606, the son of Matthew Johnes of Nydfywch, Llangyfelach, and Mary his wife. He matriculated from All Souls College, Oxford, 20 February 1623/4 and graduated B.A. 25 February 1624/5 and M.A. 5 July 1627. (Foster, Alumni Oxonienses). In 1636 he was vicar of Penmain, Gower, and showed Puritan tendencies displeasing to the bishop of S. Davids. Proceedings were begun against him in
MAURICE, DAVID (1626 - 1702), cleric and translator , according to D. R. Thomas (A History of the Diocese of St. Asaph), bore ' not the shield of Owen Gwynedd nor of Einion Efell, but that of Cunedda Wledig.' David Maurice matriculated from Jesus College, Oxford, 3 June 1651. He graduated B.A. 1654/5, and M.A. 1657, from New College. He held the following ecclesiastical preferments - vicar of Llangernyw, 1662; rector of Cegidog S. George, Denbighshire, 1663
MAURICE, WILLIAM (d. 1680), antiquary and collector of manuscripts Welsh laws which his cousin Meredith Lloyd of Bryn Elen gave him (Wynnstay MS. 36). He transcribed a considerable body of Welsh poetry, and made a pioneer study of the texts of the Welsh laws in his ' Deddfgrawn ' or ' Corpus Hoelianum ' (Wynnstay MSS. 37-8) in 1660-3. He was interested in the early history of Wales and the Celts. He wrote a letter on Brennus to Robert Vaughan in 1662 (Wynnstay MS. 12
MAURICE, Sir WILLIAM (1542 - 1622), politician achieved in partnership with the other British peoples; the bard Richard Owen aptly describes him (Brogyntyn MS. 3/376) as ' penn plaid brytaniaid.' His death (10 August 1622) is recorded on a tombstone (now almost obliterated) in Penmorfa church. His surviving heiress Elin, lady (Francis) Eure (1578 - 1626), daughter of his eldest son, William Wyn Maurice, and widow of Sir Francis Walsingham's secretary
MENDS, CHRISTOPHER (1724? - 1799), Methodist exhorter, afterwards Independent minister of societies extending from Llandeilo-fawr to Gower. They report to the Association, on 25 October 1748, that they have taken a house at Laugharne 'for Methodist worship,' and that it was 'quite full every Sunday,' though the societies, both at Carmarthen and at Laugharne, were 'weak.' But on 10 January 1749 the quarter sessions records note the registration of ' the house of Chr. Mends and William
MEREDITH, RICHARD (d. 1597), bishop of Leighlin, Ireland Born in Denbighshire, son, it is said, of one Robert Meredith ap Gronw and Margaret, daughter of William John ap Gronw. It is possible that he was of the same stock as the Merediths of Stansty. He was probably the Richard Meredith who graduated B.A. at Jesus College, 4 March 1572/3, but it is quite certain that he became M.A. of the same college in 1575. He became chaplain to Sir John Perrot
MERRETT, Sir HERBERT HENRY (1886 - 1959), industrialist his business involvement, he remained chairman until 1957. He was president of the Glamorgan County Cricket Club, chairman of the Post Office Advisory Committee for South Wales 1936, and a member of the Court of Governors of the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire. He died 3 October 1959.
MEYRICK, Sir SAMUEL RUSH (1783 - 1848), antiquary subject on which he was consulted by the authorities of the Tower of London and by king George IV - for details see the article in D.N.B. He married, 3 October 1803, Mary, daughter and co-heiress of James Parry, Llwyn Hywel, Cardiganshire. In 1809 (and 1810) was published, in quarto, his History and Antiquities of the County of Cardigan, which was considered then - and many such county histories were

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