Dictionary of Welsh Biography

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
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
MIDLETON, WILLIAM (c. 1550 - c. 1600), poet, soldier, and sailor 1596 and it may be surmised that he spent the greater part of his time on sea at this period. He died sometime before 1603, for an elegy upon him was printed in the Psalmae, published that year. William Midleton is a good example of the cultured gentleman living in the time of the Renaissance. He learnt the craft of Welsh bardism in his youth and, in 1593-4, published a book which described that
MILES, JOHN (1621 - 1683), Particular Baptist leader and American settler secure disciples with convictions as abiding as himself; in his case, notably Lewis Thomas, who supervised the area between Bridgend and Carmarthen in the days of persecution, and William Prichard, who had the guardianship of the eastern districts, with Abergavenny as nucleus, and who, by his baptising William Jones (died c. 1700) of Rhydwilym about 1667, opened the way for such intense Baptist
MILES, WILLIAM JAMES DILLWYN (1916 - 2007), local government officer and author
MILLER, WILLIAM HALLOWES (1801 - 1880), crystallographer
MORGAN family Llantarnam, The importance of this branch of the Morgans of Pen-coyd, claiming descent from Cadifor Fawr, begins when WILLIAM MORGAN (died 1582), of the Grange of Cefn Vynoch, acquired, in 1561, the dissolved abbey of Llantarnam, with its appurtenant manors of Wentwood and Bryngwyn, from William, earl of Pembroke (died 1570), to whom it had been granted by Elizabeth in 1559. A new mansion was built from the
MORGAN family Tredegar Park, , THOMAS, an esquire of the body to Henry VII, was the ancestor of the branch at Machen, which later became the senior branch of the family. Sir Morgan John's eldest son, JOHN MORGAN, probably died in 1513, as his will is dated 4 April in that year. His eldest son, WILLIAM MORGAN, was high sheriff of Monmouthshire in 1565 and died without issue in 1569 (will dated 8 August 1568 and proved 27 June 1569
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 men who held castles in Glamorgan and Gwent in the king's name. It was c. 1210 that Hywel was succeeded by his son Morgan, whose name heads this note. As will be seen in the article on the Marshals, Morgan was involved in their fortunes; he lost Caerleon castle to William Marshal in 1217, and William's sons refused to restore it to him (though he generally kept his hold upon Machen castle) - indeed
MORGAN FYCHAN (d. 1288), lord of the Welsh barony of Avan Wallia (or Nedd-Afan) in the honour of Glamorgan . Sometime after 1350, Avan passed into the hands of the chief-lord, probably as a result of an exchange of lands effected by Jane, daughter and heiress of Thomas, and wife of William Blount. The younger son of Morgan Fychan, Rhys, who succeeded to his father's lands in Baglan, was, however, the ancestor of several well-known Glamorganshire families including the Mackworth family and the Williams family of
MORGAN, Sir CHARLES (1575? - 1643?), soldier nobleman Philip de Marnix de Ste. Aldegonde (died 1598), William the Silent's coadjutor in the Netherlands Revolt. Their only child, ANN MORGAN (died 1687), came home and married (1) Sir Lewis Morgan of Rhiwpera, Monmouth (Member of Parliament for Cardiff, 1628, knighted 1629, died 1635), and (2) Walter Strickland, who became a Member of Cromwell's Council of State and ' Other House,' and (3) John

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