Dictionary of Welsh Biography

MORRIS, MORRIS ap RHISIART (1674 - 1763), farmer and cooper Father of the Morris brothers Lewis, Richard, William, and John Morris ('Morrisiaid Môn'). He was born at Tyddyn Melus in Llanfihangel-tre'r-beirdd in 1674 and married Margaret Owen (1671 - 1752) of Bodafon-y-glyn, a neighbouring farm in June 1699. After the birth of his eldest son Lewis on 2 March 1701, he went to live to Fferem; from there in 1707, he moved to Pentrerianell where he continued
MORUS DWYFECH (fl. c. 1523-1590), a poet bardic itineraries to Gwynedd, he addressed poems to members of most of the landed families, including those of Cefnamwlch, Clenennau, Ystumcegid, Talhenbont, Plas-du, Glyn Dwyfech, Castellmarch, Llwyndyrys, Bodfel, Glynllifon, Trefeilir, and Gwydir. He also composed poetry (cywyddau and englynion) on various other themes including religious poems, satires, poems addressed to a maiden, one to his own
MOSTYN family Mostyn Hall, (of Pengwern and Mostyn) the husband of Angharad, was, according to the bard Guto'r Glyn, (see Phillipps MS. 2160 in the Cardiff Public Library; see also NLW MS 3027E, i.e., NLW MS 3027E), a bard and a harpist; on the maternal side he was second-cousin to Edmund, earl of Richmond, and Jasper Tudor, earl of Pembroke. In 1415 he was an esquire in the retinue of Thomas Fitzalan, earl of Arundel and
NANNEY family Nannau, Nannau'; he had a brother also, and executor of his will, who signs as 'Adam de Nannew.' Nor is there sufficient foundation for the story of Hywel Sele's treachery towards Owain Glyn Dŵr in 1402 - he was grandson to Meurig Fychan - so little indeed that Sir John E. Lloyd, the author of the standard work on the prince, never refers to Hywel at all. But certainly, the poet Llywelyn Goch ap Meurig Hen (c
ORMSBY-GORE, WILLIAM DAVID (1918 - 1985), politician, diplomat, media impresario in a car crash, the first of several lifechanging events involving motor vehicles. Despite a traditional elite education of Eton College, New College, Oxford, and the British Army, Ormsby-Gore's links with Wales were more than just a Welsh title. The Ormsby-Gore family were historic landowners of the Brogyntyn Estate near Oswestry and Glyn Cywarch near Talsarnau, Merionethshire, and had donated
OWAIN TUDOR (c. 1400 - 1461), courtier Grandfather of Henry VII, son of Maredudd ap 'Sir' Tudur ap Goronwy Fychan (see under Ednyfed Fychan) by Margaret, daughter of Dafydd Fychan ap Dafydd Llwyd. The circumstances surrounding the early part of his life are very obscure, but it is certain that as a young man he became a servant in the household of Henry V, possibly through the influence of his courtier kinsman, Maredudd ab Owain Glyn
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OWEN, ANEURIN (1792 - 1851), Welsh historical scholar and editor of the Laws of Hywel Dda the prize at the Cymmrodorion Society's eisteddfod held at Welshpool, 8 September 1824. The second prize for a list of manuscripts in North Wales was awarded to Angharad Llwyd; her list had been printed in 1828 in vol. ii of the Transactions; for a letter from Owen to Angharad Llwyd, written 19 January 1831, about a manuscript of Guto'r Glyn, see NLW MS 4857D. Owen showed great interest in Welsh
OWEN, HENRY (1716 - 1795), cleric, physician, and scholar himself in Welsh antiquities, and in the Welsh manuscripts belonging to William Jones (1675? - 1749). True, Sir John Lloyd was convinced that the attribution to Owen of the 1775 History of Anglesea, including an essay on Owain Glyn Dŵr attributed to Thomas Ellis of Dolgelley (these attributions are made in Llyfryddiaeth y Cymry), is erroneous - the History, says Sir John, was by John Thomas (1736 - 1769
OWEN, Sir JOHN (1600 - 1666), royalist commander (1658 - 1698), educated at Oriel College, Oxford (matriculated 20 April 1674), and at the Inner Temple (entered 1677), was knighted next year (16 July), and further extended the family's territorial influence in Wales by marrying Margaret, co-heiress of Owen Wynn of Glyn, Merioneth. A keen politician, he vigorously upheld the Crown and the Anglican establishment, and in December 1689, was made sheriff
OWEN, JOHN DYFNALLT (Dyfnallt; 1873 - 1956), minister (Congl.), poet, writer, journalist and Archdruid of Wales researching the history of Independent causes. Stephen Hughes (1912), ' Tomos Glyn Cothi ' (Thomas Evans, 1764 - 1833) (Y Dysgedydd, 1933) and ' Y Tri Brawd o Lanbrynmair ' (Adroddiad Undeb yr Annibynwyr, 1928) were some of his heroes, and he wrote about them not so much to record events as to inspire a new generation. In 1927 he was appointed editor of Y Tyst, a position he enjoyed as a means of expressing
PAGET family (marquesses of Anglesey), Plas Newydd, Llanedwen was he who was largely responsible for consolidating the social and political status of the family in Anglesey, and notably so at Caernarvon, where, by securing the constableship of the castle and the mayoralty in 1785, he was successful in undermining the long-established monopoly of the Glyn family of Glynllifon in the borough. It was he, too, who together with Thomas Williams of Llanidan (1737

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