Dictionary of Welsh Biography

MAURICE, Sir WILLIAM (1542 - 1622), politician , John Owen of Bodsilin, Anglesey, was the mother of Sir John Owen (1600 - 1666), heir to Clenennau and William Owen (1607 - 1670), heir to Porkington.
MAURICE, WILLIAM (d. 1680), antiquary and collector of manuscripts The son of Lewis Maurice, who descended from the Moeliwrch family in Llansilin, by Jane, daughter of John Holand, vicar of Guilsfield (1586-1639), he spent his life at Cefn-y-braich or Ty Newydd in Cynllaith, Llansilin. It is said that he erected a building of three stories, locally known as ' the Study,' to house his library.He had sufficient means to collect books and manuscripts, to employ
McLUCAS, CLIFFORD (1945 - 2002), artist and theatre director in 1968 and continued to work on architectural projects. Between 1972-74 he worked intermittently as a forester apprenticing himself to a master carpenter and became a skilled and inventive craftsman. In 1974 he moved to Tre-groes, Ceredigion with his partner and young family. They had three sons, Jesse, Joseph and John. He worked as a carpenter on self-employed projects and began to learn Welsh
MEADOWS, JOSEPH KENNY (1790 - 1874), draughtsman christened at S. Mary's, Cardigan, 1 November 1790, second son of James Meadows. His career is not recorded until 1823 when he was responsible for some of the illustrations in The Mirror of the Stage, and the lithographs used in Planché's Costume of Shakespere's Historical Tragedy of King John. He achieved popularity with The Heads of the People or Portraits of the English, 1838-40, to which W. M
MERCER, JOHN (1893 - 1987), cricketer
MEREDITH, BENJAMIN (1700 - 1749), Baptist minister a place near the chapel and later, when his health deteriorated, in his own home. His translation into Welsh of John Bunyan's Jerusalem Sinner Saved was published in 1721, with a second edition in 1765. He died in December 1749.
MEREDITH, Sir JOHN (1714 - 1780), lawyer
MEREDITH, JOHN ELLIS (1904 - 1981), minister (Presbyterian Church of Wales) and author first five children enrolled one was John Wyn, eldest son of J. E. and Elizabeth Meredith and the other children of the family, Margaret Wyn, Ruth Wyn and David Wyn followed the same educational path. When three years later Ifan ab Owen Edwards was chosen as President of the School, J. E. Meredith became Chairman of the Governors. He led the deputation to the Education Committee of Cardiganshire
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
MEURIG (fl. 1210), poet, and treasurer of Llandaff The date of his flourishing seems to be fixed by a passage in Giraldus Cambrensis's De Principis Instructione (dist. iii, cap. 28), in which a soldier-poet long dead is said to have appeared in a vision to Meurig and challenged him to complete a verse which foretold the interdict declared on England in the reign of king John. Giraldus says that Meurig (Mauricius) was a Glamorgan man and was a
MEYRICK family Bodorgan, noting here that it was he who engaged Lewis Morris to measure the Bodorgan estate. Owen Meyrick was succeeded by his son, OWEN MEYRICK II (1705 - 1770), who married a wealthy heiress, the daughter of John Putland of London; and by his grand-son, OWEN PUTLAND MEYRICK (1752 - 1825), who was equally fortunate in his marriage - to Clara, daughter and heiress of Richard Garth of Morden, Surrey. The estate
MEYRICK family Hascard, Fleet, Bush, Wigmore, swordsmen who had served with him abroad, and his own connections in Radnorshire (where he had married c. 1584, the daughter of Ieuan Lewis of Gladestry, widow of John Gwynn of Llanelwedd, who brought him both estates), and in Carmarthenshire (where his daughter Margaret was the wife of Sir John Vaughan of Golden Grove, later 1st earl of Carbery, as well as his brother Francis (below)). He was responsible

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