Dictionary of Welsh Biography

MANSEL family Oxwich, Penrice, Margam abbey, Household to queen Anne. He became one of the commissioners of the Treasury, 1710-1, and was one of the Tellers of the Exchequer, 1712-4, whilst, like his father before him, he was also vice-admiral of South Wales. He was intimate with dean Swift, who refers to him in his Journal to Stella; he was also on friendly terms with Robert Harley, afterwards 1st earl of Oxford, with Francis Gwyn, and with Erasmus
MATTHEWS, JOHN HOBSON (Mab Cernyw; 1858 - 1914), Roman Catholic historian, archivist and solicitor his examination of the family muniments of the Vaughans of Courtfield, a Herefordshire Catholic family (the muniments are now in N.L.W.). At the time of his death he was co-operating in the work of continuing Duncombe's History of Herefordshire. He married, 1892, Alice Mary Gwyn-Hughes; they had four sons and two daughters. He died at Ealing, 30 January 1914. NLW MS 2851E-2853E contain some typical
MAURICE family Clenennau, Glyn (Cywarch), Penmorfa kindred, the one lineally descended of Owen Gwynedd, prince of Wales, consisting then and now of four houses, viz., Keselgyfarch, y Llys ynghefn y fann, now called Ystymkegid, Clenenny, and Brynkir, Glasfryn or Cwmstrallyn; the other sect descended of Collwyn [ap Tangno], wherof are five houses or more, viz. Whelog, Berkin, Bron-y-foel, Gwynfryn, Talhenbont, and the house of Hugh Gwyn ap John Wynne ap
MAURICE, HUGH (1775 - 1825), skinner, and transcriber of Welsh manuscripts the president, Thomas Roberts, Llwyn-rhudol, and the recorder, John Jones ('Jac Glan-y-gors') were at the wedding. He later resided at Greenwich, Pengwern (Ffestiniog), Tremadoc, and Plâs Gwyn, Llan-rug, where he died 18 March 1825. He was buried at Llanfihangel Glyn Myfyr. An excellent penman, he was also an amateur artist. One of his early transcripts, poems by Gwalchmai, is written in 'bardic
MORGAN, DYFNALLT (1917 - 1994), poet, literary critic and translator stand and refuse to bear arms. One of his earliest poems, Y Milwr Gwyn (The White Soldier), about the war memorial in Llanddewi Brefi, written when he was twenty one, bears eloquent witness to his opposition to militarism. He appeared in front of the South Wales Tribunal sitting in Aberystwyth in 1940 with some of his fellow students, such as Merfyn Turner, and his pacifist beliefs were recognised by
MORRIS, DAVID (1744 - 1791), Calvinistic Methodist exhorter, and hymn-writer the common people. He began to get stout when he was still young and this prevented him from touring as much as some of his contemporaries. In 1774, at the request of the Methodists at Tŵr-gwyn, in the parish of Tredreyr, he went to that place to take charge of the society there, and made his home at Pen-y-ffos. Mary, his wife, was buried in 1788 and Williams of Pantycelyn wrote an elegy after her
MORRIS, EBENEZER (1769 - 1825), Calvinistic Methodist minister Rhys. He joined the Methodist society at Trecastle and began to exhort c. 1788. He returned to his own neighbourhood and, on his father's death in 1791, undertook the work of supervising the Methodist flock of Tŵr-gwyn and the surrounding districts. He married, 1792, Mary Jones of Dinas, Betws Ifan, and with her dowry built a new house at Blaen-y-wern, where he lived from 1804 until his death 15
MORRIS, LEWIS (1760 - 1855), Calvinistic Methodist exhorter Born 2 June 1760 at Coed-y-gweddill, Llangelynnin, Meironnydd. His thoughts were turned to religion by hearing David Morris of Tŵr-gwyn (1744 - 1791) preach at Machynlleth, and the Methodist cleric John Williams of Lledrod (1747 - 1831) at Aberystwyth. When over 30, he learnt to read, and in 1791 began preaching. He suffered much persecution - once he had to walk all the way to Llwyngwair in
NANNEY family Nannau, century, that of Maes Pandy at the end of that century; the Dolau-gwyn relationships were made secure by a series of complicated marriages. The head of the house in the years 1580-1620 was HUW NANNAU HEN, a very powerful personality, of whom the bards outdid each other in extravagant eulogies, no fewer than eleven of them bewailing his death in 1623. His career was not without some grave crises: he was
NICHOLLS, ERITH GWYN (1875 - 1939), Wales and Cardiff Rugby centre three-quarter
NOAKES, GEORGE (1924 - 2008), Archbishop of Wales will be remembered as one of the best loved Archbishops of Wales since its disestablishment in 1920, a true friend to all. After failing health George Noakes died at West Wales General Hospital, Carmarthen on July 14 2008. After a funeral sevice at St Peter's Church, Carmarthen on July 22 2008, he was cremated at Parc Gwyn Crematorium Narberth. His wife Jean died on April 18 2012.
OWEN, DAVID (Brutus; 1795 - 1866), editor and littérateur the magazine was bought in 1829 by Jeffrey Jones, the Llandovery printer, Brutus moved to Pentre-ty-gwyn. When Jeffrey Jones died in 1830, Yr Efangylydd was launched, as successor to Lleuad yr Oes, by a committee of Independent ministers, with Brutus as editor, and Messrs. D. R. and W. Rees, Llandovery, as printers. Under the editorship of Brutus the new magazine became more political than had been

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