Dictionary of Welsh Biography

MILLS, RICHARD (Rhydderch Hael; 1809 - 1844), musician married John Pryse. His son, RICHARD MILLS (1840 - 1903), carried the family musical tradition into east Denbighshire. On his father's death the boy had been sent to his maternal grandfather at Newtown, but later he returned to Llanidloes as a staff-notation compositor in his stepfather John Pryse's printing office. He studied music diligently, won an eisteddfod prize for his hymn-tune ' Pen-dref,' and
MORGAN (fl. 1294), rebel Gilbert de Clare. He has also been described in one contemporary chronicle as Rhys ap Morgan, which suggests some confusion with Rhys, the younger son of Morgan Fychan ap Morgan Gam. Morgan submitted to the king in July 1295, and obtained the royal clemency. His daughter, Angharad, was an ancestress of the Morgan family of Tredegar family. See Morgan ap Hywel for Maredudd.
MORGAN family Llantarnam, sheriff in 1582; his daughter Florentia married Sir William Herbert of S. Julians. The marriage of his heir, THOMAS MORGAN, to Frances, daughter of Edward Somerset, 4th earl of Worcester, drew the family further into the camp of militant Roman Catholicism; for although she appears to have been brought up a Protestant, she had been 'reconciled' to Rome by Fr. Robert Jones, and she was a generous
MORGAN family Tredegar Park, This family claims descent from CADIFOR FAWR, lord of Cil-sant, who died in 1089. His third son, Bledri, who died in 1120, was on good terms with the Norman conquerors, who may have granted him lands in Monmouthshire, because he appears, along with other residents of that district, as a witness to a grant of the church of Bassaleg to Glastonbury in the early 12th century. Sixth in line of descent
MORGAN, JOHN (d. 1504), clerk of parliament, and bishop David Mathew the elder of Radyr, with some of the best-known families in South Wales : the Herbert s; the family of Dafydd Gam; the Wogans; and the Dwnns - hence perhaps Ieuan Deulwyn's reference (The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, 1941, 122-3). But it should be noted that he was not the brother of Richard III's attorney-general, Morgan Kidwelly, who is often confused with
MORGAN ap CARADOG ap IESTYN (d. c. 1208), lord of the Welsh barony of Avan Wallia (or Nedd-Avan) in the honour of Glamorgan sons of whom the third, Morgan Gam, succeeded him. A daughter, Sybil, appears to have married into the family of Turberville of Coity. Giraldus Cambrensis (Itin., i, cap. 8) recounts that it was Morgan ap Caradog who guided archbishop Baldwin in 1188 across the quicksands between the Afan and Tawe estuaries. Of the four sons of Morgan whose names are known to us, LLEISION was the eldest; in the
MORGAN ap HUW LEWYS (fl. c. 1550-1600), poet ; later the place went from another branch of the family and became part of the Llanfair-is-gaer estate. It is not certain whether the poet was the Morgan ap Huw Lewys who received holy orders in 1580, and who was patronized by Wiliam Glyn of Glynllifon. If so, then he may have been chaplain to Wiliam Glyn for a short period before marrying and settling in Hafod-y-wern. The name Morgan ap Huw Lewys is
MORGAN ap HYWEL (fl. 1210-1248), Welsh lord of Gwynllwg or Caerleon under the earls of Gloucester (lords of Glamorgan), a descendant of Rhydderch ap Iestyn ap Gwrgant. It may be useful to enter under his name a note on his family, compiled from Lloyd, A History of Wales (see the genealogy on p. 771 of that work). Caradog ap Gruffudd, grandson of Rhydderch ap Iestyn, was killed in the battle of Mynydd Cam (1081). By 1140 we hear of Caradog's son, OWAIN AP CARADOG
MORGAN ELFAEL (fl. c. 1528-1541), poet A number of his poems remain in manuscript including some written to members of South Wales landed families, Sir John Mathew of Radur (Radyr), Sioned, the daughter of Sir Thomas Philipps of Picton castle, and Lewys Gwynn of Tref Esgob. A number of his poems to Gruffudd Dwn (of Ystrad Merthyr) and his family are also found, two of them being in holograph (Llanstephan MS 40 (73, 74)). He was buried
MORGAN FYCHAN (d. 1288), lord of the Welsh barony of Avan Wallia (or Nedd-Afan) in the honour of Glamorgan son of Morgan Gam. Like his father he was a supporter of the North Wales princes. He may for a time have been deprived of Avan, for in 1282 he is described merely as lord of a half commote in Baglan. His son, LLEISION (died 1328), the first of the family to adopt the surname ' de Avene,' was certainly lord of Avan, being succeeded there in turn by his son and grandson, John and Thomas de Avene
MORGAN, ALFRED PHILLIPS (1857 - 1942), musician Born 21 May 1857 at Rumney, Monmouthshire, son of David Price and Levia Phillips Morgan. The family moved to Pwllgwilym near Cefn-bedd-Llywelyn, and later at Builth. He was educated at Builth Endowed School, and afterwards he went to Aberystwyth college for a music course under Dr. Joseph Parry and he received tuition at the Tonic Sol-fa College of Music. He won many prizes for composing tunes
MORGAN, Sir CHARLES (1575? - 1643?), soldier was the fourth son of Edward Morgan (1530 - 1585) of Pen-carn, Monmouth, and of Frances Leigh of London. His family, a younger branch of the Morgan family of Tredegar, had acquired Pencarn through the marriage of his great-grand-father. Following the military bent of his uncle, Sir Thomas Morgan ' the Warrior ' (died 1595), and his elder brother Sir MATTHEW MORGAN (knighted by Essex at Rouen

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