Dictionary of Welsh Biography

MOSES-EVANS, DAVID LEWIS (1822 - 1893), poet and schoolmaster (Ioan Cunllo) for an ode to the memory of Daniel Evans (Daniel Ddu o Geredigion), his work being highly praised by Eben Fardd. He was known colloquially as Dafydd Moses but about 1860 he added the surname Evans after researching his family history, and this was the surname used by the 5 or 6 youngest of his 9 children, 4 sons and 5 daughters. Moses died 1 September 1893. His daughter Mary was the step
MOSS, GWENFRON (1898 - 1991), missionary in China and India She was born July 27, 1898, in Coed-poeth, the daughter of Samuel and Margaret Moss, and it was at Salem, Coed-poeth, that she was brought up during the ministry of Reverend T.E. Thomas. She was educated and trained at the Grove Park School for Girls, Wrexham, and at the School for Pharmacy of the Pharmacy Society in London. During her time in the capital, she used to worship regularly at the
MOSTYN family Talacre, The Mostyns of Talacre descend from Peter (Peyrs, Piers), son of Richard ap Hywel by his wife Catherine, daughter of Thomas Salusbury the elder, of Lleweni (for Peter and Richard ap Hywel see the article on the Mostyn family of Mostyn). The baronetcy in this family was created in 1670, the first baronet being Sir EDWARD MOSTYN. To this family belonged FRANCIS EDWARD MOSTYN (1860 - 1939), fourth
MOSTYN family Mostyn Hall, Robert Williames Vaughan, bart., of Nannau, Meironnydd. Sir Roger also was interested in the literature and history of Wales; Some Specimens of the Poetry of the Antient Welsh Bards by Evan Evans (Ieuan Fardd) is dedicated to him. He died 26 July 1796 Sir THOMAS MOSTYN (1776 - 1831), 6th bart., continued the family tradition in regard to the representation of Flintshire in Parliament. He was sheriff of
MYDDELTON family Gwaenynog, ; his 3rd son, FOULK MYDDELTON, became governor of Denbigh castle, and was succeeded there by his heir RICHARD MYDDELTON (c. 1508 - 1575), Member of Parliament for Denbigh 1542, of whose nine sons one followed him in the governorship, three migrated to London and one overseas, while his brother ROBERT MYDDELTON represented the borough in the 1547 parliament. Sir THOMAS MYDDELTON (1550 - 1631
MYRDDIN-EVANS, Sir GUILDHAUME (1894 - 1964), civil servant Born 17 December 1894, the second son of Rev. Thomas Towy Evans, minister (B.) at Blaenau Gwent, Abertillery, Monmouthshire, and Mary (née James) his wife. He was educated at Cwmtillery elementary school, Abertillery county school, Llandovery College and Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated with first class honours in mathematics. He served as a lieutenant with the South Wales Borderers in
MYTTON, THOMAS (1608 - 1656) Halston,, parliamentary commander of Thomas Owen (a judge of Common Pleas and a member of the Council at Ludlow), and sister of Sir Roger Owen, who was removed from the Salop bench in 1614 for his part in the Puritan opposition in James I's parliaments. Thomas was educated at Balliol College, Oxford, 1615, and Lincolns Inn, 1616, and in 1629 married Margaret, daughter of Sir Robert Napier of Luton and sister-in-law of Sir Thomas
NANNEY, RICHARD (1691 - 1767), Evangelical cleric circulating schools of Griffith Jones (at Clynnog the school was often held in the parish church, at other times in distant houses on the borders); many of his letters occur in Welch Piety, all testifying to the value of education and some containing good suggestions regarding the lessons to be given, and some loud in their praises of the old schoolmaster Thomas Gough (as Gough had at one time been the
NASH, RICHARD (Beau Nash; 1674 - 1761) Born at Swansea 18 October 1674, died at Bath 12 February 1761, and buried with unusual pomp in Bath Abbey. His remarkable career, and the ways in which he developed Bath into a centre of fashion, are recounted in Thomas Seccombe's article in the D.N.B., and in a host of other books. His father was Richard Nash, born in Pembroke town, who had settled at Swansea as a partner in glass-works; his
NELSON, ROBERT (1656 - 1715), non-juror, supporter of the S.P.C.K., and philanthropist Thomas Williams (1658 - 1726), rector of Denbigh, under the title Cydymaith i Ddyddiau Gwylion ac Ymprydiau Eglwys Loegr. Nelson's career is fully described by Leslie Stephen in the D.N.B. Though his wife was a Roman Catholic, he was a zealous Protestant, yet sufficiently High-Church to refuse the oath of loyalty to the Revolution Settlement. He was prominent in the religious society movement, in the
NENNIUS (fl. c. A.D. 800), monk and antiquary study of the Arthurian Legend and early Celtic literature and learning in general. An English translation was published by A. W. Wade-Evans (1938); also text and translation by John Morris, Historia Brittonum and the Welsh Annals (1980). Important discussions by David N. Dumville are found in his Histories and Pseudo-Histories of the Insular Middle Ages (1990) and contrast P. J. C. Field in Studia
NEPEAN, MARY EDITH (1876 - 1960), novelist . In 1932 she accused Caradoc Evans of libelling her in his novel Wasps (1933), and the book had to be altered before publication. She also took part in public life, being Commandant of a section of the Red Cross in Kent, and travelled in the Near East and the Balkans, taking a particular interest in the life of the gypsies of Transylvania. Her first novel, Gwyneth of the Welsh Hills (1917), showed

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