Dictionary of Welsh Biography

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 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
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, EDMUND (1636 - 1712), cleric and benefactor of education One of the Meyrick family of Ucheldre, Gwyddelwern, Meironnydd (a cadet branch of the Meyrick family of Bodorgan - see J. E. Griffith, Pedigrees, 308), but born at Garthlwyd, Llandderfel, the house of his father's first wife, and christened at Llandderfel, 11 June 1636; his mother was Jonet, daughter of John Vaughan of Cefnbodig, Llanycil who was Member of Parliament for Merioneth 1654-5 and died
MEYRICK, Sir SAMUEL RUSH (1783 - 1848), antiquary Born 28 August 1783, son of John Meyrick, of Westminster and Fulham, and Hannah, daughter and co-heiress of Samuel Rush. He was educated at Queen's College, Oxford (B.A. 1804, M.A. and B.C.L. 1810, D.C.L. 1811). He practised for many years as an advocate in the ecclesiastical and admiralty courts, living during this time in London, where he accumulated a magnificent collection of armour, a
MICHAEL, GLYNDWR ('Major William Martin, RN'; 1909 - 1943), 'the man who never was' son of John Glyndwyr [sic] Martin and Antonia Martin of Cardiff, Wales' was buried in Huelva cemetery, Spain. His true identity was not revealed until 1997 when a postscript was added to the grave epitaph, 'Glyndwr Michael served as Major William Martin RN.'
MICHAEL, JOHN HUGH (1878 - 1959), minister (Meth.), Professor in Methodist colleges in England and Canada, Biblical exegetist
MILES, JOHN (1621 - 1683), Particular Baptist leader and American settler Metacom's War ('King Philip's War') in 1675, with Swansey having become a flashpoint in the conflict between settlers and the Indigenous Wampanoag. Eventually he returned to Swansey, and died there on 3 February 1682/3. His son JOHN MILES was the first town-clerk of Swansey; his son SAMUEL MILES turned Anglican, graduated at Harvard in 1684, at Oxford (by diploma) in 1693, and was for nearly forty years
MILLINGCHAMP, BENJAMIN (1756 - 1829), naval chaplain and collector of Oriental manuscripts chaplain on board the ' Superbe,' the flagship of admiral Sir Edward Hughes, which sailed for India early in 1779. Then followed eighteen years in foreign service, Millingchamp leaving the fleet in July 1782 to become chaplain at Fort S. George, Madras. At Madras he started to learn Persian, becoming proficient in the language and collecting Persian and other oriental books and manuscripts (in N.L.W
MILLS, HENRY (1757 - 1820), a pioneer in Welsh congregational singing obstacles in the eyes of elders of the severer sort. Mills did much to improve the congregational singing in the district. He was twice married. Of his first marriage were born (1) Edward, father of John Mills, and of Edward Mills; (2) James (below). Of the second was born Richard Mills. He died on 28 August 1820. His work was carried on by his son JAMES MILLS (1790 - 1844), whose abilities as a conductor
MILLS, JOHN (Ieuan Glan Alarch; 1812 - 1873), Calvinistic Methodist minister, writer and musician

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