Dictionary of Welsh Biography

MORGAN, WILLIAM (c. 1545 - 1604), bishop, and translator of the Bible into Welsh wealthy heiress to Robert Wynn of Gwydir. In 1579 Morgan testified in an action concerning the validity of Meredith's marriage, and during the hearing of the case first came into contact with archbishop Whitgift who greatly encouraged him in his work of translation. The upshot of these quarrels was a suit brought by Morgan, and countersuits by his enemies, in the Court of Star Chamber and the Council of
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, EBENEZER (1790 - 1867), cleric became the wife of A. J. M. Green (who was at one time Morris's curate), the father of archbishop Charles A. H. Green - see G. M. Roberts, Bywyd a Gwaith Peter Williams, 164, 167. Morris married again in 1839. Morris was unquestionably a 'character.' He was a handsome, powerfully built man, a strong Protestant, and an exceedingly popular preacher in his prime - so much so that, on one occasion, the
MORRIS, RICHARD ROBERTS (1852 - 1935), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and poet
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 them with his vision of a more just world. He married (1) Elizabeth Roberts, of Nant, Coed-poeth, who died in 1906; and (2) Elizabeth Hughes of Blaenau Ffestiniog. He died 1 August 1948, at the age of 77, and was buried in the Coed-poeth public cemetery.
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.

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