Dictionary of Welsh Biography

MANSEL family Oxwich, Penrice, Margam abbey, line and the more important members of the family are given concisely by G. T. Clark in his Limbus Patrum Morganiae et Glamorganiae (London, 1886); it has to be borne in mind, however, that Clark published his work before De Gray Birch and the authors of the Maunsell … volumes wrote. G. T. Clark starts the line with HENRY MANSEL, who is said to have settled in Gower in the reign of Edward I
MANSEL, Sir ROBERT (1573 - 1656), admiral Fourth (or sixth?) son of Sir Edward Mansel (died 1585), of Penrice, Oxwich, and Margam, by his wife, lady Jane Somerset, daughter of Henry, 2nd earl of Worcester. His career, which is described in the D.N.B., touches the naval history of England much more closely than it did Wales but it is of interest to recall that, by the marriage of his nephew, Sir Lewis Mansel, there was a family connection
MARSHAL family (earls of Pembroke), baronage in opposition to Henry III and his foreign advisers. The old struggle between the Marshal family and the prince of Gwynedd gave place to an alliance against the forces of the Crown in the war in the Marches, 1233-4. In the first phase of the war the king took Usk from Marshal but a temporary truce was established on 6 September 1233. When Richard refused to restore Caerleon to Morgan ap Hywel
MATHEW family Castell y Mynach, , lord Justice of Appeal (died 1908). HENRY MATTHEWS (1826 - 1913), Q.C., Conservative home secretary, 1886-92, came of a Tory county family connected with the Radyr line and settled at Belmont, near Hereford. He was created viscount Llandaff in 1895. The family of Castell y Mynach in Pentyrch was founded by Sir David Mathew's brother, ROBERT MATHEW. They were conservative squires who obtained, by
MATTHEWS, ABRAHAM (1832 - 1899), minister (Congl.) and one of the pioneers of the Welsh settlement in Patagonia the other committee members by local officers in February 1899 as a result. He was editor of Y Dravod, 1896-99. He died 1 April 1899 and was buried in Moriah cemetery where he had been a minister for twenty years. He left a widow, two sons and two daughters. One of his grandchildren is the historian Matthew Henry Jones, Trelew, author of two books on the history of that town : Trelew: un desafio
MATTHEWS, JOHN (1773 - 1848), surveyor and public man Lewis Edwards and Henry Richard.
MAURICE, HENRY (1647 - 1691), cleric and author if the age recorded (44) on his memorial tablet in Jesus College chapel at Oxford is correct, he was born in 1647, but Foster records his age at matriculation 'at 16,' in a year which would place his birth in 1648. He was the son of Thomas Maurice, B.D., perpetual curate of Llangristiolus, Anglesey, and his wife Sidney, daughter of Henry Perri - he was, therefore, of the Tudor of Penmynydd clan
MAURICE, HENRY (1634 - 1682), Independent minister Son of Griffith Morris of Methlan, parish of Aberdaron, having close family relations with the Wynn family of Boduan and Edward family of Nanhoron. He was educated at Jesus College, Oxford. Possibly he was the Henry Morris who headed the agitation in 1656 for moving Botwnnog school to Pwllheli, but without any doubt the 'curate' sanctioned by the Triers in 1658 for pastoral work in Llannor and
MAURICE, MATHIAS (1684 - 1738), Independent minister and writer , Maurice joined Henry Palmer and others in their migration to Rhyd-y-ceisiaid. Early in 1713 he became minister at Olney (Buckinghamshire), but in November 1714 was called to Rothwell (Northants) to succeed Richard Davis - a natural choice, when we remember the High Calvinism and the championship of absolute congregational self-government which he had already shown at Henllan. In 1726 he wrote a short
MEREDITH, JOHN ELLIS (1904 - 1981), minister (Presbyterian Church of Wales) and author J. E. Meredith was born on 7 August 1904 in Denbigh, one of the two sons of James and Margaret Meredith and christened in Fron Presbyterian Chapel by the Reverend Tom Roberts, Deputy Editor of the weekly newspaper, Y Faner. His father was an elder at Cricor Chapel, Pentrecelyn and there was a connection on his mother's side with the family of the Reverend Henry Rees of Liverpool. When he was 4
MERRETT, Sir HERBERT HENRY (1886 - 1959), industrialist
MEYRICK family Bodorgan, This family is descended from Cadafael, lord of Cedewain in Powys, but it was in the Tudor period that it first came into prominence. LLEWELYN AP HEILYN fought under Henry Tudor at the battle of Bosworth; his son MEURIG AP LLEWELYN served under Henry VIII, was promoted to be captain of the bodyguard, and was given the Crown Lease of the manor of Aberffraw. Meurig was succeeded at Bodorgan by five

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