Dictionary of Welsh Biography

LOWE, WALTER BEZANT (1854 - 1928), antiquary expense, and especially The Heart of Northern Wales, which originally (1911) was intended to be mainly a revised edition of the History of Aberconwy by Robert Williams (1810 - 1881), but was expanded into a two-volume book (1912 and 1927) of much wider compass. Besides this work, Lowe published (1906) a reprint of John Wynn of Gwydir's Survey of Penmaenmawr; Abbeys and Convents of the Vale of Conway
LUMLEY, RICHARD (1810 - 1884), Calvinistic Methodist minister Born 23 October 1810, at Aberystwyth, eldest of the eleven children of Edward Lumley, builder. He was educated in the well-known school kept by John Evans (1796 - 1861) in that town, and afterwards in the little grammar school at Llanfihangel-genau'r-glyn - in both, Lewis Edwards was his fellow-pupil and the two became intimate friends. He began to preach in 1829 and opened a (not too successful
LYNN-THOMAS, Sir JOHN (1861 - 1939), surgeon
MACKWORTH, CECILY JOAN (1911 - 2006), writer, poet, journalist and traveller person, it reflects her bifurcated life and loyalties. The sections on Wales especially impressed John Betjeman. Cecily Mackworth died in Paris on 22 July 2006, a few weeks before her 95th birthday. She was buried with her husband in Normandy. At the age of 93, she had begun an autobiography. She entitled her typescript Out of the Black Mountains.
MACLEAN, Sir EWEN JOHN (1865 - 1953), first professor of obstetrics and gynaecology at the Welsh National School of Medicine Ewen Maclean was born 15 October 1865 in the Scottish Highlands, the second son of John Maclean of Tiree, a master cordwainer (shoemaker) and Agnes Macmillan, a habitual speaker of Gaelic. While the boys were still young the family moved to south Wales where Ewen and his older brother Donald (later to become a prominent Liberal politician) attended Haverfordwest and Carmarthen Grammar Schools
MADOCKS, WILLIAM ALEXANDER (1773 - 1828), industrialist and philanthropist Born 17 June 1773 (according to NLW MS 10590C), third son of John Madocks, Fron Iw, Denbighshire (J. E. Griffith, Pedigrees 315). He went to Jesus College, Oxford (1790), and became Fellow of All Souls, Oxford, 1794, Radical M.P. for Boston, 1802-18, and Chippenham, 1820-6. His scrapbooks display an interest in the careers of such men as Alexander and Columbus, Plutarch's heroes, engineers
MADOG ap LLYWELYN (fl. 1294), rebel defensive in the neighbourhood of Conway. In March, however, Madog led a force into Powys, where, being taken unawares by the earl of Warwick, he was defeated with heavy losses on the field of Maes Meidog (or Moydog) in Caereinion. He barely escaped with his life into the hills of Snowdonia where he remained a fugitive until his unconditional surrender to John de Havering late in July or in early August
MADRYN family Madryn, Llŷn : colonel in the Parliamentary army, sheriff in 1648-9 (and before that in 1643), member of parliament for Caernarvonshire, 1654-5; he held many important offices in Anglesey and Caernarvonshire. His influence was great and far-reaching; he managed to keep the cleric John Gethin, married to his sister Dorothy, in the living of Llangybi after losing that of Criccieth under the Propagation Act of 1650; he
MAELGWN ap RHYS (c. 1170 - 1230), lord of Ceredigion ancestral lands, to the embarrassment of his brother Gruffydd, his bitterest foe, and after 1201, when Gruffydd died, of his nephews Rhys and Owain. By allying with Gwenwynwyn and king John he secured, in 1199, the lordship of Ceredigion, only to be deprived of the northern commotes by Llywelyn ap Iorwerth in 1207. It was his failure to recover this lost territory after helping John to win a victory over
MANSEL family Oxwich, Penrice, Margam abbey, . Following him came RICHARD (ROBERT ?) MANSEL, RICHARD MANSEL, Sir HUGH MANSEL (who married Isabel, daughter and heiress of Sir John Penrice of Penrice castle in Gower), and PHILIP MANSEL, slain in the Wars of the Roses and attainted. Philip Mansel's wife was Mary, daughter of Gruffudd ap Nicolas of Newton; their son JENKIN MANSEL of Oxwich, ' The Valiant,' had the attainder reversed in 1485. It was Sir
MANSEL, Sir ROBERT (1573 - 1656), admiral England and in 1620-21 he was engaged in expeditions against Algiers. Mansell's activities as treasurer of the Navy, his close connection with his countrymen, Sir John Trevor, surveyor of the Navy, and Sir Thomas Button, and with Phineas Pett, master shipwright, are discussed in the following publications of the Navy Records Society : (i) Two Discourses of the Navy: The Navy Ript and Ransact, 1659, by
MARDY-JONES, THOMAS ISAAC (1879 - 1970), economist and politician lecturer to the National Coal Board on the economics of the coal industry. He published several volumes on the work of local government and ways of reforming the rating system including Character, coal and corn - the roots of British power (1949) and India as a future world power (1952). He married in 1911 Margaret, daughter of John Moredecai, St. Hillary, Cowbridge, Glamorgan. They had two daughters. He

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