Dictionary of Welsh Biography

MARSH, JOHN (1747 - 1795), bookseller - see MARSH, RICHARD
MARSH, RICHARD (1710? - 1792), bookseller and printer A. N. Palmer in his History of Wrexham and by William Rowlands (in Llyfryddiaeth y Cymry). He was certainly printing in 1772, as Cyfarwyddiad i Fesurwyr and Cydymaith i'r Allor belong to that year. Many of the products of his press were of cheap booklets and ballads. He died 24 May 1792, and was buried in Wrexham churchyard. Richard Marsh was succeeded by his son, JOHN MARSH (1747 - 1795), a
MARSHAL family (earls of Pembroke), WILLIAM MARSHAL (I) (1146? - 1219), regent of England The first earl of Pembroke and Striguil of the Marshal line. He was the son of John Fitz Gilbert (John the Marshal) by his second wife, Sybil, sister of Patrick de Salisbury, 1st earl of Wiltshire. In 1189 king Richard gave him in marriage, Isabel, countess of Striguil and Pembroke, daughter of Richard de Clare (see Clare family), who brought
MATHIAS family Llwyngwaren, Llwyn Gwaring, Llangwaren, Lamphey . Records, ii, 41-2); it becomes stabilized as a surname with THOMAS MATHIAS (died at the end of 1617 or the beginning of 1618) - his second wife, Ursula, was a daughter of the antiquary George Owen of Henllys, but the later Mathias families do not descend from her. With his son JOHN MATHIAS comes the shift from Clastir to Llwyngwaren; he was on the county Parliamentary Committee during the Civil War
MATTHEWS, ABRAHAM (1832 - 1899), minister (Congl.) and one of the pioneers of the Welsh settlement in Patagonia Born at Llanidloes, Montgomeryshire, November 1832, son of John Matthews, weaver, and Ann Jones, but brought up by Edward and Ann Lewis, farmers living nearby who moved to Blaencwmlline, in the parish of Cemaes. At 12 years of age he was apprenticed to a factory in Cwmlline for three years, becoming a craftsman working around Montgomeryshire and south Merionethshire. When 22 years old he decided
MATTHEWS, EDWARD (1813 - 1892), Calvinistic Methodist minister and author Richard (Thomas Richard) appeared in 1863, and he was joint author of Cofiant J. Harris Jones John Harris Jones, 1886. He edited two volumes of sermons by Morgan Howells in 1858 and 1869, and two volumes of Thomas Richards's sermons (1866-7). He was a frequent contributor to Y Traethodydd, Y Drysorfa, and Y Cylchgrawn, and a volume containing his articles to these periodicals was published under the
MATTHEWS, JOHN (1773 - 1848), surveyor and public man Wales. He was a devoted member of the Calvinistic Methodist connexion and a most frequent attendant at the Association meetings. Towards the end of his life he served on a number of connexional committees. He died 9 January 1848. Matthews married Elin, of Tros-y-wern, near Mold, and their son JOHN MATTHEWS (1808 - 1870) became a surveyor, a shop-keeper, mayor of Aberystwyth, and a close friend of
MATTHEWS, JOHN HOBSON (Mab Cernyw; 1858 - 1914), Roman Catholic historian, archivist and solicitor
MATTHEWS, NORMAN GREGORY (1904 - 1964), chancellor Born 12 February 1904 at Swansea, only son of William John and Agnes Amelia Matthews. He was educated at the Grammar School, Swansea, Jesus College Oxford where he held a Meyricke Exhibition, and gained B.A. (2nd-class hons. Theology, 1926, M.A. 1930), St. Stephen's House Theological College, Oxford, 1926. He was ordained deacon, 1927, served as curate of St. Dyfrig, Cardiff, 1927-35, and was
MAURICE family Clenennau, Glyn (Cywarch), Penmorfa The careers of Sir William Maurice and colonel Sir John Owen are dealt with separately; here only a very general survey of the family is attempted. Sir John Wynn says in his The history of the Gwydir family (and it should be remembered that Sir John's ancestors came from Eifionydd, which is the south-eastern part of Caernarvonshire): 'You are to understand that in Evioneth there were two sects or
MAURICE, HENRY (1634 - 1682), Independent minister preached in several unlicensed houses; towards the end of the same month he undertook the famous journey to his native Llŷn, preaching again in unlicensed places, addressing multitudes in churchyards, and disappointed at not being allowed to enter the pulpits of the parish churches themselves. Naturally he visited his 'cousin' John Williams of Llangian (1627 - 1673) and Richard Edwards (died 1704), the
MAURICE, HUGH (1775 - 1825), skinner, and transcriber of Welsh manuscripts the president, Thomas Roberts, Llwyn-rhudol, and the recorder, John Jones ('Jac Glan-y-gors') were at the wedding. He later resided at Greenwich, Pengwern (Ffestiniog), Tremadoc, and Plâs Gwyn, Llan-rug, where he died 18 March 1825. He was buried at Llanfihangel Glyn Myfyr. An excellent penman, he was also an amateur artist. One of his early transcripts, poems by Gwalchmai, is written in 'bardic

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