Dictionary of Welsh Biography

MORGAN, WILLIAM (1801 - 1872), Baptist minister Cardigan. He then spent two years at Abergavenny College. Towards the end of 1824 he received a call to Holyhead and was ordained 18 April 1825 - the first Baptist to be ordained in Anglesey; there, he was unequalled except by Christmas Evans. He was, says Robert Jones (1806 - 1896) of Llanllyfni, as able as John Elias, but not as lucid. He joined issue with other able men in Y Bedyddiwr, wrote an elegy
MORRIS ap ROBERT - see ROBERTS, MORRIS
MORRIS, DAVID (Bardd Einion; 1797? - 1868), poet his produce to his neighbours or in the near-by markets. He was well versed in Welsh history and poetry and could recite long poems from memory. He was himself an able writer of englynion and at the Llanfair Caereinion eisteddfod, out of forty competitors, won the prize for an englyn on ' The Wind.' It is said that Gwallter Mechain and Robert Jones (Bardd Mawddach) used to correct his earlier
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
MORRIS, ROBERT (1743 - 1797?), barrister - see MORRIS, ROBERT
MORRIS, ROBERT (fl. 1767-1816), poet - see ROBERTS, ELLIS
MORRIS, ROBERT DAVID (1871 - 1948), itinerant bookseller and author
MORRIS, ROBERT PRYS (1831? - 1890), local historian and antiquary; a writer in Welsh and English journals
MORRIS, ROGER (fl. 1590) Coed-y-talwrn, Llanfair Dyffryn Clwyd, transcriber of manuscripts the orthography of Dr. Gruffydd Robert, and under-dotted letters instead of doubling them. A number of his manuscripts had come into the possession of Thomas Evans, Hendreforfudd, by 1607.
MORRIS, WILLIAM (1705 - 1763), botanist, antiquary, letter-writer during his lifetime. He married (1745) Jane, daughter and heiress of Robert Hughes of Llanfugail (J. E. Griffith, Pedigrees, 41); she died 1 May 1750, and Morris remained a widower. A son and a daughter survived him. The (elder) son, ROBERT MORRIS, born 9 March 1746, married Jane Parry, a widow, of the Bulkeley of Brynddu family (J. E. Griffith, op. cit., 33), sold his share of the Llanfugail estate
MORTIMER, ROGER de (1256? - 1326), lord of Chirk diocese of S. Davids, on most occasions in his own hands, but once in conjunction with Robert de Malleye. Between 1307 and 1320 his own strength, allied to that of his nephew Roger of Wigmore, made the family one of the strongest in the country. In 1321, uncle and nephew sided with the earl of Hereford in his quarrel with Hugh le Despenser concerning the acquisitions of Gower. They conducted a
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

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