Dictionary of Welsh Biography

MASON, LILIAN JANE (1874 - 1953), actress recruited more Welsh actors to tour the play around the UK, effectively forming what was to become known as the Welsh Players. Lilian, Hopkins and Tom Owen were now joined by Gareth Hughes, William Hopkins (Dick's brother) and Eleanor Daniels. The Welsh Players was the first company of its kind. They played a production of The Joneses at The Strand Theatre in London in October 1913 before presenting three
MATHEW family Castell y Mynach, This family had held posts as stewards and seneschals during the 14th cent, for absent English lords. It was of the same stock as Lewis of Van, and derived according to 15th century pedigrees from Gwaethvoed of Ceredigion. Sir DAVID MATHEW (fl. 1428-84), the son of a supporter of Owain Glyn Dŵr, was a dependent of the Nevilles and a leading Yorkist. From Sir David and his wife Wenllian Herbert
MATHIAS family Llwyngwaren, Llwyn Gwaring, Llangwaren, Lamphey , and was buried (21 October 1774) at S. Nicholas. He and several of his children had Methodist leanings; Howel Harris stayed at Trefayog in 1740, and we have a letter of Harris's to him (Trev. Letters, 295), and another (294) to one of his daughters - perhaps Ann, for an ' Ann Mathias ' is named in William Richards's reports on the North Pembrokeshire Methodist Societies in 1743. But Mathias
MATHIAS, WILLIAM JAMES (1934 - 1992), composer and teacher William Mathias was born on 1 November 1934 in Whitland. His father, James Hughes Mathias (1893-1969), was a history teacher at Whitland Grammar School and his mother Marian (née Evans, 1896-1980) was an organist and pianist. At the age of six he began to take piano lessons with David Lloyd Phillips of Llanfyrnach, and it was to him that Mathias dedicated his sonata for piano, op.23. In 1952 he
MATTHEWS, ABRAHAM (1832 - 1899), minister (Congl.) and one of the pioneers of the Welsh settlement in Patagonia for another year and at that critical hour saved the great venture from disintegrating. By that time he was the chief (if not the only) public figure there. He farmed the land to support his family; but he strove voluntarily for years to minister the churches in the Camwy valley, particularly those at Trerawson, Glyn Du, Moriah and Tair Helygen. It is said that the only stipend he received for his
MATTHEWS, NORMAN GREGORY (1904 - 1964), chancellor Born 12 February 1904 at Swansea, only son of William John and Agnes Amelia Matthews. He was educated at the Grammar School, Swansea, Jesus College Oxford where he held a Meyricke Exhibition, and gained B.A. (2nd-class hons. Theology, 1926, M.A. 1930), St. Stephen's House Theological College, Oxford, 1926. He was ordained deacon, 1927, served as curate of St. Dyfrig, Cardiff, 1927-35, and was
MAURICE family Clenennau, Glyn (Cywarch), Penmorfa The careers of Sir William Maurice and colonel Sir John Owen are dealt with separately; here only a very general survey of the family is attempted. Sir John Wynn says in his The history of the Gwydir family (and it should be remembered that Sir John's ancestors came from Eifionydd, which is the south-eastern part of Caernarvonshire): 'You are to understand that in Evioneth there were two sects or
MAURICE, DAVID (1626 - 1702), cleric and translator . [See close of article on William Jones, died 1679 ].
MAURICE, HUGH (1775 - 1825), skinner, and transcriber of Welsh manuscripts Born at Tyddyn Tudur, Llanfihangel Glyn Myfyr, Denbighshire, in 1775 (christened 5 June), son of Peter Maurice and Jane, his wife, sister of Owen Jones (Owain Myfyr). He worked with his uncle in Upper Thames Street, sharing his literary and social activities in London. Under the latter's direction he began to transcribe Welsh manuscript texts in prose and verse, and he became a prominent member
MAURICE, MATHIAS (1684 - 1738), Independent minister and writer The son of a tailor at Llanddewi-Velfrey, Pembrokeshire, and himself a tailor, according to the unkindly taunt of Jeremy Owen. He became a member of Henllan Amgoed congregation, then went to William Evans (died 1718), at Carmarthen, to prepare himself for the ministry; he would seem to have been there at the time of the first schisms (1707-9) at Henllan. In the second schism (1711) at Henllan
MAURICE, WILLIAM (d. 1680), antiquary and collector of manuscripts possession or had been written by or for him.He was twice married (1), to Lettice, daughter of Roger Kynaston, Ruabon, by the daughter and heiress of Roger Eyton of Cefn y Carneddau; by her he had three sons who died young, and two daughters - Ann, wife of David Williams of Glan Alaw, brother of (Sir) William Williams (1634 - 1700), Speaker of the House of Commons, and Lettice, wife of Roger, son of Thomas
MAURICE, Sir WILLIAM (1542 - 1622), politician , which appealed to him as a Welsh patriot. He claimed to have suggested James's assumption of the title before parliament met (possibly on the occasion of his knighthood, as Sir William Morris, on 23 July 1603), but his sister's playful allusion to him as the king's 'godfather' has been taken too literally: there is no evidence that he enjoyed James's personal friendship. He also opposed the Shrewsbury

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