Dictionary of Welsh Biography

MANSELL, FRANCIS (1579 - 1665), principal of Jesus College, Oxford cf his two successors, until the Restoration restored him in his turn. But he was now an old man, with failing eyesight; he resigned in seven months (1661), being succeeded by Leoline Jenkins; but he continued to reside in college, and died there 1 May 1665; ' a man of sternness indeed, and severity … but one who had gained in a singular degree the love and veneration of every member of his College
MATHEW family Castell y Mynach, marriage, the estates of David Jenkins of Hensol. The line ended with CECIL MATHEW who married (in 1708), Charles, first lord Talbot of Hensol, the lord chancellor. From this branch came TOBIE MATHEW (1546 - 1628), bishop of Durham in 1595 and archbishop of York in 1606, and his son Sir TOBIE MATHEW (1577 - 1655), courtier and translator of S. Augustine's Confessions.
MAURICE, HENRY (1647 - 1691), cleric and author (see J. E. Griffith, Pedigrees, 106). From Beaumaris grammar school he went up to Jesus College, Oxford, graduated in January 1667-8, was elected Fellow in 1670, proceeded D.D. in 1683, and was Margaret Professor of Divinity in 1691. He was companion and chaplain to Sir Leoline Jenkins till 1680, when he became chaplain to archbishop Sancroft. Apart from holding the sinecure rectory of Llandrillo-yn
MORGAN, CLIFFORD (Cliff) ISAAC (1930 - 2013), rugby player, sports writer and broadcaster, media executive half for Wales for another 37 years, until Neil Jenkins won his 30th cap on 16 March 1996. Morgan scored three tries for Wales and his highlights included playing in the Welsh team which beat the New Zealand All Blacks in 1953, winning the Grand Slam in 1952, becoming joint winners of the Five Nations in 1954 and 1955, before captaining Wales to the championship outright in 1956. In May 1954, for
MORGAN, DAVID JENKINS (1884 - 1949), teacher and agricultural officer Born at Blaendewi, Llanddewibrefi, Cardiganshire, 23 September 1884, the second child and eldest son of Rhys Morgan, minister of Bethesda church (CM) in the village, and Mary his wife (née Jenkins). On the last day of August 1887 he entered the local board school, six days after his sister who was fourteen months his senior; he remained there until 14 May 1897. Tregaron county school was opened
MORGAN, ELAINE NEVILLE (1920 - 2013), screenwriter, journalist, and author Oxford University. At Oxford, she became heavily involved in student politics, rising to become the chair of the Oxford University Democratic Socialist Club, the largest student political group at the university, and mixed with contemporary and future cabinet ministers and prime ministers including Clement Attlee, Herbert Morrison, Roy Jenkins and Tony Crosland. She developed relationships with a
MORGAN, HERBERT (1875 - 1946), minister (B), university lecturer, and director of extra-mural studies responsibilities. His last work, Reason and religion, 1946, is a liberal theologian's reaction to the teaching of Karl Barth, which was gaining ground in some circles in Wales. He was a biblical scholar but this aspect of his learning is represented only by a Welsh commentary, with John Gwili Jenkins on portions of the Book of Isaiah, 1908, and articles in Y Geiriadur Beiblaidd (1926). He married Mrs. James, a
MORGAN, ROBERT (1608 - 1673), bishop of Bangor whom one entered the diplomatic service under Sir Leoline Jenkins and the others obtained ecclesiastical preferment.
MORGAN, THOMAS (1720 - 1799), Independent minister totally inadequate, and though he tried to run a farm on his wife's dowry, he hardly succeeded - from 1752 on he lived at Laugharne. He competed in 1757 with David Jardine for the tutorship at Abergavenny, and in 1759 the Calvinistic party tried to get him made tutor at Carmarthen rather than Jenkin Jenkins - two pretty sound indications of his Calvinism. In April 1760, ' because I cannot maintain my
MORGAN, THOMAS (1737 - 1813), Unitarian minister students over 23. Still [ Iolo Morganwg says he was at Carmarthen, and], the dates would fit; and Dr. Jenkin Jenkins, the tutor, was certainly present at Morgan's ordination as pastor at Blaen-gwrach (in the Vale of Neath), 1 July 1772. That church had long turned its back on Calvinism, and was then Arian, and we know that Morgan himself had become a Unitarian by 1802 at least - he was then a member of
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, ROBERT (d. 1768), industrialist son of Robert Morris of Bishop's Castle and Cleobury Mortimer. He entered business in North Wales and married Margaret Jenkins of Machynlleth; but moved to Tredegar. In 1727 he joined Richard Lockwood and Edward Gibbon (the historian's grandfather) in buying a copper-works at ' Landore ' (Glandŵr), Swansea; they had works afterwards at Llangyfelach and Forest, together with brass-wire mills and

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