Dictionary of Welsh Biography

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, ROWLAND JONES, translator of Nennius - see MAURICE, HUGH
McGRATH, MICHAEL JOSEPH (1882 - 1961), Archbishop college in that town. During his stay in Aberystwyth, Michael McGrath followed courses in Welsh literature given by Thomas Gwynn Jones in the university college, and they became close lifelong friends. In 1935, on the death of Bishop Francis Vaughan, Michael McGrath was appointed Bishop of Menevia. He was consecrated on 24 September of that year. On the death of Archbishop Mostyn, the man who had
McLUCAS, CLIFFORD (1945 - 2002), artist and theatre director encouraged and tutored by local primary school teacher Emyr Hywel. He became part of a group of theatre makers centered around the home of Mary Lloyd Jones at Aberbanc, putting on plays such as Liz Whittaker's The White Tower. He also began to investigate the performative aspects of the structures he was making at places like Pigeonsford in Llangrannog. This interest led him to seek collaborations with
MEILYR BRYDYDD (fl. c . 1100-1137), chief court-poet -Jones noted a chronological difficulty in accepting as the work of Meilyr Brydydd the elegy to Trahaearn ap Caradog and Meilyr ap Rhiwallon who were slain at Mynydd Cam (1081). The only other remaining poems by him are the elegy to Gruffudd ap Cynan (1137) and the poet's own death-bed lament. In the former, as Sir J. E. Lloyd observed, we have the earliest extant expression in Welsh poetry of the
MEREDITH, Sir JOHN (1714 - 1780), lawyer was a native of Radnorshire. He was high sheriff of Brecknock in 1762 (the year of his knighthood, it would seem), and also of Radnorshire - in 1780, according to the printed copy of his memorial inscription (Jones, History of the County of Brecknock, 3rd ed., ii, 91), but in 1767 according to the list of sheriffs in Jonathan Williams's Hist. Radnorshire, 2nd ed., 97. He died 6 March 1780; his
MEREDITH, JOHN ELLIS (1904 - 1981), minister (Presbyterian Church of Wales) and author his MA in 1934. He followed the pastoralia course at Bala College before being ordained in 1931 on receiving a call to Bethania, Presbyterian Church of Wales, Aberdare, one of the foremost churches in the East Glamorgan presbytery at that time. The same year he married Elizabeth Jones, Blaen-y-Cwm, Cynllwyd, Llanuwchllyn, whom he had known from his schooldays in Bala. She had graduated from the
MICHAELIONES, THOMAS (1880 - 1960), priest and owner of a gold mine Born 1 May 1880 son of Thomas and Ellen Michael Jones, 24 Baptist St., Pen-y-groes, Caernarfonshire. He attended Pen-y-groes and Menai Bridge schools and was a lay student at Brecon Independent Theological College (1905-06). He took up journalism for a short period but in 1911 he was confirmed as a member of the Anglican Church in Wales at Llanllyfni and served as curate at Blaenau Ffestiniog
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 modern edition of George Owen's The Description of Pembrokeshire (1994). He published his autobiography in Welsh, Atgofion Hen Arwyddfardd in 1997, and in English, A Mingled Yarn in 2000. His wife Joyce died in 1976, and for the last 23 years of his life his companion was Judith Graham Jones. Dillwyn Miles died at the age of 91 on 1 August 2007. A service in celebration of his life and achievements was
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

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