Dictionary of Welsh Biography

MORRIS, RICHARD (1703 - 1779), founder of the Cymmrodorion Society Born 2 February 1702-3 at Y Fferem, Llanfihangel-tre'r-beirdd, Anglesey, son of Morris ap Rhisiart Morris and brother of Lewis, William, and John Morris. He worked at first in his father's workshop, and we have (in his own hand) a list of implements made there by him at 15. According to the papers of the late Iolo A. Williams, Richard went to London on 1 August 1722 and his brother Lewis on 7 May
MORRIS, RICHARD ROBERTS (1852 - 1935), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and poet eisteddfodau - among others, Corwen (1889), Dolgelley (1893), and the Wrexham Young Men's eisteddfod (1894). He was adjudged second best in the competition for the crown at the Llanelly national eisteddfod (1895) when the subject was ' John the Beloved Disciple '; and his pryddest was published the same year at Caernarvon. Several of his hymns are to be found in Cân a Moliant (H. Haydn Jones) and one
MORRIS, ROBERT (d. 1768), industrialist collieries. Morris lived at Clasemont, between Llangyfelach and the Tawe river. Soon after his death, his second son (Sir) JOHN MORRIS (1745 - 1819), born 15 July 1745, took a step which put the family name literally 'on the map.' It is not perfectly clear whether it was he or his father who built the ' castellated mansion of collegiate appearance ' (Walter Davies, General View of the Agriculture. … of
MORRIS, ROBERT DAVID (1871 - 1948), itinerant bookseller and author enthroned English as the language of education and trade. He insisted on speaking Welsh in the shops of Wrexham which had adopted the new fashion. He dedicated his first novel to E. T. John, M.P. in recognition of ' his zeal and efforts for Wales '. For many years he was a Sunday school teacher of a class of young men at Salem, Coed-poeth. He taught those pupils to detest all wars, and inspired many of
MORRIS, WILLIAM (fl. 1829-1873?), assistant to the Education Commissioners of 1846-7 least diminish the vigorous nonconformity of William Morris, for in the third vol., p. 82, of John Hughes's Hanes Methodistiaeth Cymru, published in 1856, he is referred to as the well-known elder of Panttywyll, whose zeal and fidelity with every good cause was admitted by all. No date is assigned by Wilkins to the reminiscences he heard from the assistant commissioner; there is not a word about his
MORRIS, WILLIAM (1705 - 1763), botanist, antiquary, letter-writer Born 6 May 1705 at Y Fferem, Llanfihangel Tre'r Beirdd, Anglesey, third son of Morris ap Rhisiart Morris and brother of Lewis, Richard, and John Morris. His own words suggest that he was tall and lanky; possibly he had a pronounced stoop, for his nephew John Owen (died 1759) nicknames him 'Gwilym Gam' (the crooked), but it may be that the nephew refers rather to his 'stinginess' - he had neither
MORRIS-JONES, Sir JOHN (MORRIS) (1864 - 1929), scholar, poet, and critic honours in mathematics in 1887. As a student he had read Welsh books and manuscripts in the Bodleian Library and had attended the lectures of John Rhys; he was also one of the original members of 'Cymdeithas Dafydd ab Gwilym,' which was established on 6 May 1886. Having held a scholarship to read Celtic, he was appointed, in January 1889, lecturer in Welsh at the University College of North Wales
MORRIS-JONES, JOHN HENRY (1884 - 1972), Liberal\/National Liberal politician Battalion of the Worcestershire Regiment. He later served as Chairman of his division of the British Medical Association and of the Colwyn Bay Medical Society. In May 1929 he was elected the Liberal MP for the relatively safe seat of Denbighshire in succession to Ellis W. Davies MP who was standing down because of ill-health. Morris-Jones joined the Liberal National group of MPs led by Sir John Simon in
MORTIMER, ROGER de (1256? - 1326), lord of Chirk until 19 February 1314/5, when he was succeeded by John de Gray in North Wales, and William Martyn in West and South Wales. On 23 November 1316, however, he was regranted the office of justice of North Wales during the king's pleasure, and on 7 October of the following year he became justice of North and South Wales for life. During this period he also held intermittently, the office of justice of the
MORTON, RICHARD ALAN (1899 - 1977), biochemist Alan Morton was born on 22 September 1899 in Garston, a suburb of Liverpool, the only son and younger child of John Morton, a train driver who was born in Wrexham, and his wife Ann (née Humphreys) of Nantgwynant who came to Liverpool as a housemaid. Though christened Alun, he was always known as Alan. The Welsh-speaking family were members at the Welsh Calvinistic Methodist Chapel in Garston and
MORUS BERWYN (fl. c. 1553-1615), poet A native, apparently, of the Berwyn district of North Wales. A number of his poems remain in manuscripts. Most of these are addressed to various members of North Wales families, including John Salusbury of Lleweni and his wife Katheryn (of Berain), Sir William Morys of Clenennau, Robert Wyn of Foelas, Thomas Vaughan of Hafod, captain William Thomas. There are also a poem in praise of Bishop
MORYS, HUW (Eos Ceiriog; 1622 - 1709), poet Second son of Morris ap John ap John ab Ednyfed of Hafodgynfor in the parish of Llangollen, Denbighshire. Although he spent the greater part of his long life at Pontymeibion, in the parish of Llansilin, it appears that Huw was not born there as is generally supposed, but that he moved there with his father and family about the year 1647. We know that his grandfather, John ap John, owned certain

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