Dictionary of Welsh Biography

MADOG ap LLYWELYN (fl. 1294), rebel defensive in the neighbourhood of Conway. In March, however, Madog led a force into Powys, where, being taken unawares by the earl of Warwick, he was defeated with heavy losses on the field of Maes Meidog (or Moydog) in Caereinion. He barely escaped with his life into the hills of Snowdonia where he remained a fugitive until his unconditional surrender to John de Havering late in July or in early August
MADRYN family Madryn, Llŷn : colonel in the Parliamentary army, sheriff in 1648-9 (and before that in 1643), member of parliament for Caernarvonshire, 1654-5; he held many important offices in Anglesey and Caernarvonshire. His influence was great and far-reaching; he managed to keep the cleric John Gethin, married to his sister Dorothy, in the living of Llangybi after losing that of Criccieth under the Propagation Act of 1650; he
MAELGWN ap RHYS (c. 1170 - 1230), lord of Ceredigion ancestral lands, to the embarrassment of his brother Gruffydd, his bitterest foe, and after 1201, when Gruffydd died, of his nephews Rhys and Owain. By allying with Gwenwynwyn and king John he secured, in 1199, the lordship of Ceredigion, only to be deprived of the northern commotes by Llywelyn ap Iorwerth in 1207. It was his failure to recover this lost territory after helping John to win a victory over
MANSEL family Oxwich, Penrice, Margam abbey, . Following him came RICHARD (ROBERT ?) MANSEL, RICHARD MANSEL, Sir HUGH MANSEL (who married Isabel, daughter and heiress of Sir John Penrice of Penrice castle in Gower), and PHILIP MANSEL, slain in the Wars of the Roses and attainted. Philip Mansel's wife was Mary, daughter of Gruffudd ap Nicolas of Newton; their son JENKIN MANSEL of Oxwich, ' The Valiant,' had the attainder reversed in 1485. It was Sir
MANSEL, Sir ROBERT (1573 - 1656), admiral England and in 1620-21 he was engaged in expeditions against Algiers. Mansell's activities as treasurer of the Navy, his close connection with his countrymen, Sir John Trevor, surveyor of the Navy, and Sir Thomas Button, and with Phineas Pett, master shipwright, are discussed in the following publications of the Navy Records Society : (i) Two Discourses of the Navy: The Navy Ript and Ransact, 1659, by
MARDY-JONES, THOMAS ISAAC (1879 - 1970), economist and politician lecturer to the National Coal Board on the economics of the coal industry. He published several volumes on the work of local government and ways of reforming the rating system including Character, coal and corn - the roots of British power (1949) and India as a future world power (1952). He married in 1911 Margaret, daughter of John Moredecai, St. Hillary, Cowbridge, Glamorgan. They had two daughters. He
MARSH, JOHN (1747 - 1795), bookseller - see MARSH, RICHARD
MARSH, RICHARD (1710? - 1792), bookseller and printer A. N. Palmer in his History of Wrexham and by William Rowlands (in Llyfryddiaeth y Cymry). He was certainly printing in 1772, as Cyfarwyddiad i Fesurwyr and Cydymaith i'r Allor belong to that year. Many of the products of his press were of cheap booklets and ballads. He died 24 May 1792, and was buried in Wrexham churchyard. Richard Marsh was succeeded by his son, JOHN MARSH (1747 - 1795), a
MARSHAL family (earls of Pembroke), WILLIAM MARSHAL (I) (1146? - 1219), regent of England The first earl of Pembroke and Striguil of the Marshal line. He was the son of John Fitz Gilbert (John the Marshal) by his second wife, Sybil, sister of Patrick de Salisbury, 1st earl of Wiltshire. In 1189 king Richard gave him in marriage, Isabel, countess of Striguil and Pembroke, daughter of Richard de Clare (see Clare family), who brought
MATHIAS family Llwyngwaren, Llwyn Gwaring, Llangwaren, Lamphey . Records, ii, 41-2); it becomes stabilized as a surname with THOMAS MATHIAS (died at the end of 1617 or the beginning of 1618) - his second wife, Ursula, was a daughter of the antiquary George Owen of Henllys, but the later Mathias families do not descend from her. With his son JOHN MATHIAS comes the shift from Clastir to Llwyngwaren; he was on the county Parliamentary Committee during the Civil War
MATTHEWS, ABRAHAM (1832 - 1899), minister (Congl.) and one of the pioneers of the Welsh settlement in Patagonia Born at Llanidloes, Montgomeryshire, November 1832, son of John Matthews, weaver, and Ann Jones, but brought up by Edward and Ann Lewis, farmers living nearby who moved to Blaencwmlline, in the parish of Cemaes. At 12 years of age he was apprenticed to a factory in Cwmlline for three years, becoming a craftsman working around Montgomeryshire and south Merionethshire. When 22 years old he decided
MATTHEWS, EDWARD (1813 - 1892), Calvinistic Methodist minister and author Richard (Thomas Richard) appeared in 1863, and he was joint author of Cofiant J. Harris Jones John Harris Jones, 1886. He edited two volumes of sermons by Morgan Howells in 1858 and 1869, and two volumes of Thomas Richards's sermons (1866-7). He was a frequent contributor to Y Traethodydd, Y Drysorfa, and Y Cylchgrawn, and a volume containing his articles to these periodicals was published under the

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