Dictionary of Welsh Biography

LLOYD, MORGAN (1820 - 1893), barrister and politician Born at Cefngellgwm, Trawsfynydd, 14 July 1820, son of Morris Lloyd, farmer. The family is stated to have been a branch of the family of Llwyd of Cynfal. Morgan Lloyd at first intended to become a land surveyor and assisted John Matthews in mapping Trawsfynydd parish in 1839. He afterwards went to the Calvinistic Methodist College at Bala and subsequently to Edinburgh University. Becoming a
LLOYD, MORGAN - see LLWYD, MORGAN
LLOYD, OWEN MORGAN (1910 - 1980), minister and poet
LLOYD-JONES, DAVID MARTYN (1899 - 1981), minister and theologian -pastor with the Rev. G. Campbell Morgan at Westminster Chapel, Buckingham Gate, London. This arrangement carried on throughout the Blitz years until Campbell Morgan retired in 1943. In contrast to his predecessor who preached from an Arminian position, Dr Lloyd-Jones was a Calvinist and belonged to the reformed wing of the theological spectrum. He began to preach several series of sermons on New
LLWYD, MORGAN (1619 - 1659), littérateur, poet, mystic
LLWYD, STEPHEN (1794 - 1854), musician Born 1794 at Llystyn-bach, Nevern, Pembrokeshire, the son of Joseph and Elizabeth Lloyd. He was given some education and was then brought to his father's trade of tailoring. His music instructor was Dafydd Siencyn Morgan. He settled at Fishguard, was appointed precentor at the Baptist chapel there, and soon became known throughout the county as a musician. In 1840 he moved to Pontypridd, where he
LLYWELYN-WILLIAMS, ALUN (1913 - 1988), poet and literary critic ['Closer than the Historian'] (1968) and in Ambell Sylw ['A Few Observations'] (1988) which appeared in December after his death with the assistance of his friend and former colleague, Dyfnallt Morgan. The last essay in that selection is 'Y Llenor a'i Gymdeithas' ['The Writer and his Society'], the BBC Radio Lecture of 1966 which is an impassioned argument for the importance of the writer within a
MADOG DWYGRAIG (fl. c. 1370), poet one of the last of the 'Gogynfeirdd' group. A number of his awdlau remain in the ' Red Book of Hergest ' and other MSS. They include religious and satirical poems, and also ones addressed to Hopcyn ap Thomas ab Einion of Ynys Dawy, Gruffudd ap Madog of Llechwedd Ystrad, and Morgan Dafydd ap Llywarch of Ystrad Tywi. A number of these were included in The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales
MAELGWN ap RHYS (d. 1295), rebel of 1294 a son of Rhys Fychan, last lord of Geneu'r Glyn in north Cardiganshire, and a descendant of Maelgwn ap Rhys ap Gruffydd. When in 1294 a general uprising against alien rule broke out in Wales, led by Madog ap Llywelyn in North Wales, and Morgan in Glamorgan, Maelgwn assumed the leadership of the insurgents in Cardiganshire. The campaign in west Wales comprised a hard, but unsuccessful, siege of
MAINWARING, WILLIAM HENRY (1884 - 1971), Labour politician of the sitting Labour MP, Colonel D. Watts-Morgan. But his election to parliament was by no means a foregone conclusion. He was opposed by Arthur Horner as a Communist candidate, and a Liberal also stood. Mainwaring's majority over Horner was just 2,899 votes, while the Liberal came in third. The constituency was a stronghold of Communism, and in each subsequent parliamentary election Mainwaring
MANSEL family Oxwich, Penrice, Margam abbey, , e.g., there are references to his duties as vice-admiral of South Wales; see also the De Gray Birch Catalogues). One of his daughters, Martha, married Thomas Morgan of Tredegar - see Morgan family of Tredegar; the marriage and its after-effects caused the baronet much trouble because Thomas Morgan was reluctant to return from a tour on the continent of Europe. Sir Edward's heir, Sir THOMAS MANSEL
MAREDUDD ap MORGAN ap CARADOG ap IESTYN - see MORGAN ap CARADOG ap IESTYN

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