Dictionary of Welsh Biography

MORGAN, TREFOR RICHARD (1914 - 1970), company director close friendship with D.J. Williams (1885 - 1970) and his wife in Fishguard. In World War II he was a conscientious objector on nationalist grounds. In 1943 he married Gwyneth, daughter of Arthur and Mary (née Daniel) Evans of Aberdare, and they had four children. He was a parliamentary candidate for Plaid Cymru in Ogmore in 1945 and in 1946, for Abertillery in 1955, and for Brecon and Radnor in 1966
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, LEWIS (Llewelyn Ddu o Fôn; 1701 - 1765), poet and scholar (by Daniel Silvan Evans,), and the second is still in MS., at the National Library - on this matter, see G. J. Williams in the 1943 Supplement to N.L.W. Jnl., 30-2. Then again, his private press (on which, see Ifano Jones, Printing and Printers in Wales), from which he intended to issue reprints of the older literature, had to be abandoned after the issue of a single item, Tlysau o'r Hen Oesoedd
MORRIS, PERCY (1893 - 1967), politician and trade unionist and received the C.B.E. in 1963. Morris married (1) in 1920 Elizabeth, daughter of William Davies. She and Morris's sister and brother-in-law, were killed during the German bombing of Swansea in January 1941. He married (2) in 1956 Catherine Evans. His home was at 30 Lôn Cedwyn, Cwmgwyn, Swansea. He died 7 March 1967.
MORRIS, Sir RHYS HOPKIN (1888 - 1956), politician, stipendiary magistrate, first director of the Welsh Region B.B.C. practised in the South Wales circuit. He assisted W. Llewelyn Williams in his election campaign in Cardiganshire, upon whose death in 1922 he was invited to fight the seat for the Asquithian Liberals (the Wee Frees). He was not elected, but dented Ernest Evans ' vote, was eventually returned for Cardiganshire in 1923 and remained as member until 1932 when he applied for the Chiltern Hundreds on being
MORRIS, RICHARD (1703 - 1779), founder of the Cymmrodorion Society of his niece - so, thanks to him, they were not dispersed. He ruled the Cymmrodorion (of which he was president from the beginning till his death) as a monarch; he could lose his temper and speak harshly, but he showed forgiveness towards Goronwy Owen, most remarkable patience towards Evan Evans (Ieuan Fardd), and much kindness to other men of letters. Richard Morris married four times, but we do
MORRIS, ROBERT (d. 1768), industrialist South Wales, 134) near 'the Clase,' to house forty families of their workpeople, with a shoemaker and a tailor for their service; but it is to John Morris that the tourist-books (e.g. John Evans, Malkin, Wood) unanimously ascribe the building of the village of Morriston - said to have been planned by the minister and bridge-builder William Edwards (1719 - 1789) of Eglwysilan. John Morris was made a
MORRIS, ROBERT DAVID (1871 - 1948), itinerant bookseller and author Born at Nant, Coed-poeth, Denbighshire, 18 December 1871, the son of David and Hannah Morris. He left school early and went to work in a coalmine. After a few years as a collier, he opened a Welsh newspaper and book-shop in the High Street at Coed-poeth. In the 1920s he began to travel throughout north Wales, selling Welsh books which he collected from the Brython Press (Hugh Evans & Sons
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 (Rhosynnog; 1843 - 1922), Baptist minister Born 12 September 1843 at Tre-boeth, Swansea, son of David Morris. He started by training to become an engineer. He was educated at the Swansea academy (kept by G. P. Evans) and at Pontypool, and was ordained at Treorchy. He was secretary of the Welsh Baptist Union, 1879-98, and afterwards became its president. He was a promoter of cultural, temperance, and educational movements in the Rhondda
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
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

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