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MORGAN, DAVID JENKINS
(1884 - 1949), teacher and agricultural officer
during the first half of the twentieth century. They were written in a lively style. A selection of these essays was published in Pant a bryn (1953). He married 7 July 1915, Annie, daughter of John and Jane Jones, Tŷ-
llwyd
, Brynmawr (originally from Swyddffynnon). He died suddenly on 18 May 1949 at Charing Cross Hospital, London. His body was cremated at Golders Green and his ashes were returned to
MORGAN, ELENA PUW
(1900 - 1973), novelist, author of fiction and short stories for children
National Eisteddfod, Tan y Castell (Under the Castle, 1930) and Bwthyn Bach
Llwyd
y Wig (The Little Grey Woodland Cottage, 1936). She also published 16 juvenile short stories in periodicals such as Cymru'r Plant, Y Cymro, and Y Faner. Morgan published three novels for adults, each of them winning prestigious prizes in the National Eisteddfod. The first was Nansi Lovell, published in 1933; this was the
MORGAN, Sir THOMAS
(c. 1542 - 1595), soldier
was a younger son of William Morgan of S. George's and Pen-carn, Glamorganshire. He was about 30 years of age in April 1572 when he was appointed captain of the first company of English volunteers sent to assist the Dutch in their revolt against Spain. Apart from a short period in Ireland in 1574, Morgan spent most of the rest of his life in the Low Countries. He succeeded Sir
Humphrey
Gilbert as
MORYS, HUW
(Eos Ceiriog; 1622 - 1709), poet
lands in the commotes of Rhiwlas and Hafodgynfor, at the time of his marriage to Gwen, daughter of Thomas ap Llywelyn ap John of Rhiwlas. As far as we know the poet had two brothers, John, his senior (it appears that Huw made his home with him), and
Humphrey
, his junior. We have no proof that he received a better schooling than was the common lot of boys of his locality, though it is possible that he
MOSTYN, AMBROSE
(1610 - 1663), a Puritan preacher
him from South to North, for on 7 June 1648 the Plundered Ministers' Committee - there was an earlier but abortive order by the Commons in 1644 - ordered him, together with Morgan
Llwyd
and Vavasor Powell to proceed on preaching missions to North Wales, drawing their maintenance from the comportionary tithes of six parishes in Arwystli; later, he was named as one of the twenty-five approvers in the
NANNEY
family Nannau,
. 1370-1400), was cousin to Meurig Fychan, author of the famous elegy to Lleucu
Llwyd
. Gruffydd
Llwyd
sang the praises of two sons of Meurig Fychan (end of the 14th century); Guto'r Glyn likewise composed an elegy to Meurig Fychan II (period of Henry VI), and a cywydd to thank his son David for the gift of a horse; the polished Wiliam Llŷn adds a panegyric to Gruffydd Nannau (days of Henry VIII
NORTH, FREDERICK JOHN
(1889 - 1968), geologist, educator, historian of science and museum curator
). He paid particular attention to the study of maps : his published works include Geological maps: their history and development, with special reference to Wales (1928); The map of Wales [before 1600 A.D.] (1935); and
Humphrey
Lhuyd's maps of England and Wales (1937), which remains the definitive monograph. He was one of the most active historians of geology of his time. Each of his compilative books
OLIVER(S), THOMAS
(1725 - 1799), Wesleyan preacher
office in 1789 for inefficiency. Yet the friendship between the two continued unabated, and when Oliver died in London, in March 1799, he was buried in Wesley's grave. Oliver wrote much, in prose and in verse, but is remembered today only for his hymn ' The God of Abram praise.' He was wont to visit Wales, and is probably the man whom Wesley, momentarily forgetting Harri
Llwyd
, described as his only
OWAIN GWYNEDD
(fl. c. 1550-1590), poet
Llwydiarth, Siôn Salbri of Llyweni, Dafydd
Llwyd
ap Wiliam of Peniarth, and Dafydd
Llwyd
ap Huw ab Ifan of Ynys y Maengwyn. He composed an elegy to the poet ' Sir ' Owain ap Gwilym, and poems of ymryson, or controversy, to Wiliam Llŷn, and to Hugh Arwystl; he also wrote religious poems, a poem on the snow, and a number of various englynion, which include one composed by him when on his sick bed.
OWAIN TUDOR
(c. 1400 - 1461), courtier
Grandfather of Henry VII, son of Maredudd ap 'Sir' Tudur ap Goronwy Fychan (see under Ednyfed Fychan) by Margaret, daughter of Dafydd Fychan ap Dafydd
Llwyd
. The circumstances surrounding the early part of his life are very obscure, but it is certain that as a young man he became a servant in the household of Henry V, possibly through the influence of his courtier kinsman, Maredudd ab Owain Glyn
OWEN
family Plas-du,
attended (in company with
Humphrey
Llwyd
) to the Diet of Augsburg (1566) and by whom he was drawn into plots on behalf of Mary, Queen of Scots. Implication in the Ridolfi Plot drove him into hiding, first with the Lloyd s of Llwyn-y-maen and other recusant families round Oswestry, then via Spain to Brussels (1572), where, as a Spanish pensioner, he advised the Netherlands government on English affairs
OWEN
family Peniarth,
sheriff of Merioneth in 1646-7, and elected Member of Parliament for the county in 1659. The heir of Lewis Owen II by his wife Jane, daughter of Sir Richard Lloyd of Esclusham and Dulasau, was RICHARD OWEN I (died 1714), who was sheriff of Montgomeryshire, 1694, of Merioneth, 1695, and of Caernarvonshire, 1705. He and his wife, Elizabeth (daughter and heiress of
Humphrey
Pughe of Aberffrydlan), were
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