Dictionary of Welsh Biography

LOYD, LEWIS (1767 - 1858), banker of David Peter, he entered Manchester Unitarian College where, in his second year, he was appointed assistant tutor in the classics. At about the same time he took charge of the congregation at Lob Lane, near Manchester. On his marriage he was persuaded by his brothers-in-law, Samuel and William Jones, to abandon the ministry and to become a partner in their banking business. This new career of
LOYD?, SAMUEL (1796 - 1883), banker - see LOYD, LEWIS
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 Born 10 September 1861 at Cwmgefeile, Llandysul, Cardiganshire, the son of Evan Thomas, farmer. He studied medicine at the London Hospital (M.R.C.S. 1886, F.R.C.S. 1892). His essay on fractures of the skull was awarded the Hutchinson Prize, 1890. He was elected assistant surgeon at Cardiff Royal Infirmary, 1895, and promoted surgeon later. He became the first purely consulting surgeon in Wales
MACDONALD, GORDON (first Baron MACDONALD of GWAENYSGOR), (1888 - 1966), politician Born 27 May 1888 at Gwaenysgor, Prestatyn, Flintshire, son of Thomas Macdonald and Ellen (née Hughes), but the family soon moved to Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancashire, where he was brought up in a Welsh -speaking home. He left S. Luke's Elementary School, Stubshaw Cross, at the age of 13 and worked as a miner until the beginning of World War I, apart from a period as a student at Ruskin College
MACKWORTH, CECILY JOAN (1911 - 2006), writer, poet, journalist and traveller Sherborne School for Girls. She briefly attended a domestic science college (her mother's idea) before gladly taking up her aunt's suggestion to study journalism at the London School of Economics. This aunt was Margaret Haig Thomas, Lady Rhondda whose former husband was Sir Humphrey Mackworth, younger brother of Mackworth's father: he had been best man at her parents' wedding. Mackworth completed a two
MACKWORTH, Sir HUMPHREY (1657 - 1727), industrialist and parliamentarian Born in January 1657, the son of Thomas and Anne Mackworth, of Betton Grange, Shropshire. (His grandfather and namesake was prominent both as a soldier and as a politician on the Puritan side in the Civil War). Mackworth matriculated from Magdalen College, Oxford, 11 December 1674, entered the Middle Temple on 10 June 1675, was called to the Bar in 1682, and was knighted by Charles II on 15
MADDOCKS, ANN (the Maid of Cefn Ydfa; 1704 - 1727) Born in 1704 (christened 8 May), daughter of William Thomas of Cefn Ydfa, Llangynwyd, Glamorganshire, and his wife Catherine Price of Tyn-ton, Llangeinor - sister of Rees Price, the father of the philosopher Richard Price; they were married 30 March 1703. William Thomas died in 1706 (buried 14 May). According to the story, he had placed his heiress, Ann, in the wardship of Anthony Maddocks, a
MADOCKS, WILLIAM ALEXANDER (1773 - 1828), industrialist and philanthropist , inventors, etc. While living at Dolmelynllyn, near Dolgelley, he read in the Tours of Thomas Pennant, of the plans of Sir John Wynn of Gwydir, to enclose Traeth Mawr, between Aberglaslyn and the sea. Having inherited much wealth from his father, he bought Tanrallt Estate, Penmorfa, in 1798. He enclosed 1,000 acres of Traeth Mawr, and built Tremadoc; then obtained an Act of Parliament in 1807 to raise an
MADOG DWYGRAIG (fl. c. 1370), poet one of the last of the 'Gogynfeirdd' group. A number of his awdlau remain in the ' Red Book of Hergest ' and other MSS. They include religious and satirical poems, and also ones addressed to Hopcyn ap Thomas ab Einion of Ynys Dawy, Gruffudd ap Madog of Llechwedd Ystrad, and Morgan Dafydd ap Llywarch of Ystrad Tywi. A number of these were included in The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales
MADRYN family Madryn, Llŷn younger branches settled at Carngiwch and Llannerch-fawr. One of them, THOMAS MADRYN, was in the age of Elizabeth, together with other squires of Llŷn, in serious trouble on account of the unscrupulous schemes of the earl of Leicester; his son, ROBERT MADRYN, married into the house of Bodvel (first wife) and that of Cefn Amwlch (second). His grandson was THOMAS MADRYN, the greatest of the family
MAINWARING, WILLIAM HENRY (1884 - 1971), Labour politician undertaking an economic investigation. He toured Asia in 1956. A small group of his papers is in the custody of the National Library of Wales. A native Welsh speaker, he lived at 11 Aubrey Road, Penygraig in the Rhondda valley and also owned a home at 18 Harbord Road, Oxford. He married in 1914 Jesse, the daughter of Thomas Hazell of Oxford. They had one daughter. His wife had predeceased him. He died on 18

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