Dictionary of Welsh Biography

McLUCAS, CLIFFORD (1945 - 2002), artist and theatre director ' drawing upon ideas first encountered whilst working on Tri Bywyd. In 2000 McLucas took up the post of visiting research fellow at Stanford University, California to work on the Three Landscapes Project with his Lampeter colleague the archaeologist Professor Michael Shanks. This project focused on the concept of the 'deep map' after William Least Heat-Moon's PrairyErth and sought to find ways to
MENDS, CHRISTOPHER (1724? - 1799), Methodist exhorter, afterwards Independent minister Born at the Cotts near Hasguard, Pembrokeshire, 22 February '1724' (which may be 1725); he was one of nine children, and describes his father as 'a clothier.' In 1741 he and his brother WILLIAM MENDS were living at Laugharne, where there were fulling and tucking mills; and there, when Christopher was 17, they were converted by Whitefield. Both brothers became exhorters, and had charge of a group
MEREDITH, BENJAMIN (1700 - 1749), Baptist minister Born in 1700 at Llanwenarth, Monmouthshire, the son of William Meredith who was a prominent member and preacher at the Baptist church, Llanwenarth. He was baptized at the age of 17 and began to preach in 1720. About 1730 he was invited to take charge of the Independent church at Llanbryn-mair, and after serving there for some time he was ordained in 1733, but in the following year, he was asked
MEREDITH, JOHN ELLIS (1904 - 1981), minister (Presbyterian Church of Wales) and author their pacifism. He also valued the continuing friendship of some of his fellow students at Oxford, T. Rowland Hughes, Professor Alun Moelwyn Hughes and Reverend Glyn Parry Jones. He received golfing lessons from Dai Rees, the professional at Aberdare Golf Club, though it cannot be claimed that he spent much time at the game. Later in life he became a keen fisherman. In 1937 J. E. Meredith received a
MEREDITH, LEWIS (Lewys Glyn Dyfi; 1826 - 1891), preacher and writer , Blodau Glyn Dyfi, 1852. In 1865 he married Nillie E. Phelps, the daughter of a prominent Methodist Episcopal minister. He died 29 September 1891, and was buried in Oak Park, Chicago. He had a brother, RICHARD MEREDITH (1826 - 1856), who wrote articles for the Traethodydd and Winllan, sometimes under his own name and sometimes under the pen-name Caradog. He was for a short time a Wesleyan lay preacher
MEREDITH, RICHARD (d. 1597), bishop of Leighlin, Ireland Born in Denbighshire, son, it is said, of one Robert Meredith ap Gronw and Margaret, daughter of William John ap Gronw. It is possible that he was of the same stock as the Merediths of Stansty. He was probably the Richard Meredith who graduated B.A. at Jesus College, 4 March 1572/3, but it is quite certain that he became M.A. of the same college in 1575. He became chaplain to Sir John Perrot
MEREDITH, THOMAS (fl. 1747-1770), Methodist exhorter, and Antinomian selected portions of the works of William Erbury and Morgan Llwyd, etc., collected by him, were published under the title A Scourge for the Assirian the great Oppressor (W. Laplain, Salop). His views are to be found in a book, An Illustration of Several Texts of Scripture, which includes several of his letters and which was published posthumously in 1770 from the same press. There is a mystical element
MEREDITH, WILLIAM (1874 - 1958), footballer
MEREDUDD ap RHYS (fl. 1450-1485), gentleman, cleric, and poet diocese of St Asaph, though no evidence has been found that he became vicar so early in the century. It is also noted that he was rector of Meifod and rector of Welshpool in 1450, both livings being probably sinecures. Meredudd had a long life. He was living in 1483 when he wrote an elegy for king Edward IV. And about this time, i.e. probably in the 80's, he is accused by Guto'r Glyn of envying him and
MEYRICK family Hascard, Fleet, Bush, Wigmore, . He followed Essex to Portugal (1589) and Normandy (1591), and on the death, in 1595, of his kinsman Sir Roger Williams - hitherto Essex's right-hand man - he became all-powerful with the earl, to whom his complete devotion was proverbial, and at whose suit the queen gave him extensive lands, including Wigmore castle, which became his principal seat. Essex knighted him (as Sir William or Gellian) on
MEYRICK family Bodorgan, Meyrick's debts. RICHARD MEYRICK III (died 1644) was the first of the family to be appointed sheriff of Anglesey, and that not until 1614. Indeed, the Meyricks had very little lustre until the estate passed into the hands of OWEN MEYRICK I (1682 - 1760), second son of WILLIAM MEYRICK (1644 - 1717), and grandson of RICHARD MEYRICK IV (died 1669). He set the estate on a strong foundation, looked after it
MICHAEL, GLYNDWR ('Major William Martin, RN'; 1909 - 1943), 'the man who never was' sisters had married and were living elsewhere) until her death in 1940. By 1942 he had moved to London, destitute, lonely and essentially homeless, where he died of poisoning 28 January 1943. During the previous months the British intelligence service had devised and were developing a daring deception: the body of a Royal Marine officer, Major William Martin, was to be washed up on a Spanish beach where

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