Dictionary of Welsh Biography

MORGAN, WILLIAM (Y Bardd; 1819 - 1878), poet Born 3 July 1819 at Cefn-Coed-y-Cymer, near Merthyr Tydfil - his mother was a niece to George Lewis, Llanuwchllyn. The family moved to Aberdare when the children were quite young. The son became prominent in Calvinistic Methodist circles in Aberdare and district. He became friendly with John Roberts (Ieuan Gwyllt), after the latter had come to Aberdare to edit Y Gwladgarwr, 1858, and the two men
MORGAN, WILLIAM (c. 1545 - 1604), bishop, and translator of the Bible into Welsh held the archdeaconry of St Asaph 'in commendam.' As a bishop, he showed notable zeal in encouraging preaching and rebuilding. His determination to safeguard the temporal possessions of the see led him into sharp conflict with David Holland of Teirdan, and into an even more bitter controversy with Sir John Wynn. He died 10 September 1604. Morgan married Catherine, daughter of George, widow of William
MORGAN, Sir WILLIAM (d. 1584), soldier of fortune son of Sir Thomas Morgan of Pen-coed and Langstone, Glamorganshire, and Cecilia, daughter of Sir George Herbert of Swansea. In 1569 he went to France to fight as a volunteer in the Protestant army. After having been engaged in several skirmishes in that country and in the Netherlands he returned to England in time to join the earl of Essex in his Irish ventures. In 1574 he was knighted by
MORGAN, WILLIAM (1750 - 1833), actuary and scientist of the moment' (Williams, 137). His younger brother, George Cadogan Morgan, studied classics at Cowbridge Grammar School and, although William's name does not appear in the school records, an ode by him In Imitation of Horace suggests that he, too, had a classical education. William was born with a clubfoot but his father, determined that his son should follow him into the practice, foresaw no
MORGAN, WILLIAM (1750 - 1833), actuary Born 26 May 1750 at Bridgend, Glamorganshire, brother of George Cadogan Morgan and nephew of the philosopher Richard Price. He was apprenticed to two apothecaries in London, and was a student at St. Thomas' Hospital. He returned to Bridgend in 1772 to take up his father's practice after his death. He went to London in 1773 where he may have kept a school for a while. In 17 April 1774 Price got
MORRIS, LEWIS (Llewelyn Ddu o Fôn; 1701 - 1765), poet and scholar Galltfadog, near Aberystwyth) married Anne Lloyd, heiress to the small estate of Penbryn (Goginan) - they moved to Penbryn in 1757. Anne Morris has been variously judged; she got on well with her two brothers-in-law, but their nephew, John Owen, who had to live in her house, speaks of her in the most scathing terms. Ten children were born of this marriage (six survived their father) - a fact which can
MORRIS, WILLIAM (1783 - 1861), Calvinistic Methodist minister churchyard. He travelled a great deal throughout Wales and was held in high esteem by his contemporaries who regarded him as an ardent and lucid preacher. In 1873 a stout volume of his sermons was published under the editorship of George Williams.
MORRIS-JONES, Sir JOHN (MORRIS) (1864 - 1929), scholar, poet, and critic Born 17 October 1864 at Trefor, Llandrygarn, Anglesey. In 1868 his family moved to Llanfair-pwll, where he received his elementary education, proceeding in 1876 to Friars School, Bangor. When the headmaster, Daniel Lewis Lloyd was appointed to Christ College, Brecon, in 1879, Morris-Jones accompanied him. He matriculated from Jesus College, Oxford, as a scholar, in 1883, and graduated with
MORTIMER, ROGER de (4th earl of March, 4th earl of Ulster), (1374 - 1398) Richard, and the disappointment when this expectation was thwarted may well have been one of the causes of the Glyndŵr rebellion. Once more, Owain Glyndŵr's Penmynydd supporters had no quarrel with a Mortimer, and no cause to love a family which had usurped Mortimer 'rights.' Indeed, many in Wales believed (E.H.R., xxxii, 560; Lloyd, Owen Glendower, 28, 53, 69) that Richard II was still alive.
MOSES-EVANS, DAVID LEWIS (1822 - 1893), poet and schoolmaster -mother of J. Lloyd Thomas, headmaster of Llanfyllin grammar school, and the mother of Dafydd Arafnah Thomas, a minister. See T.J. Morgan's article on the eisteddfod poets of Cwmaman and the Swansea valley in Journal of the Welsh Bibliographical Society, 9, 162-85, for his role as a teacher of poets in the area and the comments of Watcyn Wyn (Watkin Hezekiah Williams and Gwydderig. See also Huw Walters
MOSTYN family Mostyn Hall, , Holywell, to her; the queen wrote to Sir Roger requesting him to arrange for her wishes in the matter to be carried out. Sir Roger died at Mostyn, 4 October 1690. He had married (1), c. July 1642, Prudence, daughter of Sir Martin Lumley, (2) Mary, eldest daughter of Thomas, viscount Bulkeley, of Baron Hill, Anglesey, and (3), Lumley, eldest daughter of George Coetmor of Coetmor. His heir, Sir THOMAS
MYDDELTON family Gwaenynog, or cock fight, but on 7 August 1659, he joined Sir George Booth in raising Cheshire and North Wales, proclaimed Charles II at Wrexham (C.J., vii, 753; cf. Cal. S. P. Dom., 1659-60, 162), was declared a traitor (9 August), shared in Booth's defeat by Lambert near Nantwich (18 August), but evaded capture and was condemned to sequestration. Before the order could be made effective, he had been

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