Dictionary of Welsh Biography

MORGAN, Sir WALTER VAUGHAN (1831 - 1916), lord mayor of London Born 3 May 1831, sixth son of Thomas Morgan of Pipton, Glasbury, Brecknock - on the family, see Theophilus Jones, History of the County of Brecknock, 3rd ed., iii, 90. Because of the family's financial losses, several of the sons went up to London, where they were remarkably successful. Walter Vaughan Morgan was for ten years (1846-56) in the service of the National Provincial Bank in various
MORGAN, WILLIAM (1818 - 1884), Congregational minister and college tutor movements for promoting education, equality, and religious and political freedom. He died 25 April 1884.
MORGAN, WILLIAM (Y Bardd; 1819 - 1878), poet Born 3 July 1819 at Cefn-Coed-y-Cymer, near Merthyr Tydfil - his mother was a niece to George Lewis, Llanuwchllyn. The family moved to Aberdare when the children were quite young. The son became prominent in Calvinistic Methodist circles in Aberdare and district. He became friendly with John Roberts (Ieuan Gwyllt), after the latter had come to Aberdare to edit Y Gwladgarwr, 1858, and the two men
MORRIS, EBENEZER (1790 - 1867), cleric and his Independent neighbour, David Rees (1801 - 1869), should be in a perpetual state of war, and each of them must bear his share of the responsibility for the unfortunate results of their skirmishes about the 'church rates' at Llanelly and Llan-nonn, 1838-40 (Innes, 28-3; Jenkins, Cymru yn y 19eg ganrif, 107-8). But Morris had such an ungovernable temper that it amounted almost to madness; it
MORRIS, MORRIS ap RHISIART (1674 - 1763), farmer and cooper his work as a cooper in addition to that of farming. He suffered from frequent ailments throughout his life. On his wife's death his grand-daughter Margaret and her husband went to live with him and assisted in the cultivation of his farm. They succeeded in getting him to leave Pentrerianell in 1761, when he went to live in a room in Llannerch-y-medd where he died 25 November 1763; he was buried
MORRIS, RICHARD (1703 - 1779), founder of the Cymmrodorion Society Born 2 February 1702-3 at Y Fferem, Llanfihangel-tre'r-beirdd, Anglesey, son of Morris ap Rhisiart Morris and brother of Lewis, William, and John Morris. He worked at first in his father's workshop, and we have (in his own hand) a list of implements made there by him at 15. According to the papers of the late Iolo A. Williams, Richard went to London on 1 August 1722 and his brother Lewis on 7 May
MORRIS, ROBERT (d. 1768), industrialist baronet in 1806; he went to live at Sketty Park and died 25 June 1819. The baronetcy still survives, but the contact with industrialism has long ceased. Robert Morris's papers have been given to the University College library at Swansea. The career of Robert Morris's elder son ROBERT MORRIS (1743 or 1744 - 1797?) was very different. He went up (1760) to Oriel College, Oxford, graduated in 1764, was
MORRIS, SILAS (1862 - 1923), principal of the Baptist College, Bangor new Welsh translation of the New Testament. He was editor of Seren Gomer for ten years. He was a thoughtful preacher but made no effort to be popular. He wrote voluminously to the various periodicals. He died 25 July 1923 and was buried in Sardis chapel burial-ground, Llanedy.
MORRIS, THOMAS (1786 - 1846), Baptist minister chapel; at Corntown and Pyle (1842-3); and again at Newport, ministering to a small body of worshippers which seceded from Charles Street, for whom he built a chapel. He had originally served his apprenticeship as a carpenter and, in the course of his ministry, built or enlarged twelve chapels and collected the money to pay off their debts; when the tenth was completed he was nicknamed 'Ten chapel Tom
MORTON, RICHARD ALAN (1899 - 1977), biochemist the third edition of his Biochemical Spectroscopy published in two volumes in 1975. A scientific article by him in Welsh, 'Agweddau Cemegol ar Weled' ('Chemical aspects of sight') was published in Y Gwyddonydd, 3, rfif 2 (Mehefin 1965), and he contributed essays to the Merseyside Welsh magazine, Y Bont. After his retirement in 1966, he was visiting professor at the University of Malta in 1969, and
MOSSELL, AARON ALBERT (1863 - 1951), lawyer, mining engineer and civil rights campaigner Aaron Mossell was born on 3 November 1863 in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, into an African American family, the youngest of six children of Aaron Mossell, a brickmaker and grandson of enslaved people, and his wife Eliza Bowers Mossell. His siblings were: Charles W. (1849-1915), Mary E. (1853-1886), James (b. 1853), Nathan Francis (1856-1946) and Alvaretta (b. 1858). The family later moved to
MOSTYN family Mostyn Hall, grandson estimated that his losses during the Civil War amounted to about £60,000. He was closely associated with the efforts made to restore the monarchy. In 1660 he was named as one of those qualified to be made a knight of the Royal Oak, created a baronet (3 August 1660), and became a deputy-lieutenant for Flintshire. The duke of Beaufort, during his 'Progress' of 1684 as Lord President of Wales, was

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