Dictionary of Welsh Biography

LLWYD, HUMPHREY (1527 - 1568), physician and antiquary of great eloquence, an excellent rhetorician, a sound philosopher, and almost noted antiquary '. Books which he collected for lord Lumley were subsequently sold to James I and are now in the British Museum. He married Barbara, sister and heiress of John, the last lord Lumley, and had two sons and two daughters. His motto, as appears from a mezzotint portrait by J. Faber (1717), was ' Hwy pery klod
LLWYD, HUMPHREY (c. 1527 - 1568), antiquary and map-maker magnates in the country would have been an achievement. Though the exact nature of his duties is unknown he is not now thought to have been the Earl's physician as stated by Wood. Ieuan M. Williams lists a number of documents from the Arundel Castle Archives and elsewhere which show Llwyd acting on behalf of the Earl with regard to properties in London, Hampshire and Sussex. It is clear that Llwyd was a
LLYWELYN ap GRUFFYDD (d. 1282), Prince of Wales challenging the revived power of the English monarchy, a policy which ended with his defeat in the war of 1277 and the collapse of his life's work. The subsequent peace of Aberconway left him with only Gwynedd west of Conway, though he was still accorded the now hollow title of Prince of Wales, with which was associated the overlordship of five small baronies on the outskirts of Snowdonia. At Worcester, on
LOCKLEY, RONALD MATHIAS (1903 - 2000), farmer, naturalist, conservationist and author coauthored with ornithologist James Fisher (1912-1970) a comprehensive account of the Seabirds of the north Atlantic, within the highly regarded New Naturalist book series. In 1962 the Lockley family left Orielton due to the cost of maintenance, selling it to the Field Studies Council. Early in 1964 Ronald and Jill were divorced. In the same year Ronald, now in his early 60s, married Jean St Lawrence (1909
LOUGHER, Sir LEWIS (1871 - 1955), industrialist and politician , and lived for a long time in a mansion called Dan-y-bryn, Radyr (now the Cheshire Homes), but about 1939 he and his unmarried sister Charlotte Lougher moved to live nearby in Northlands, Radyr, where he died 28 August 1955.
MACLEAN, Sir EWEN JOHN (1865 - 1953), first professor of obstetrics and gynaecology at the Welsh National School of Medicine Hospital. In 1921 the Welsh National School of Medicine, at that time still a part of University College, Cardiff, became a full medical school in the sense that it now provided training in the clinical as well as the preclinical years. Notwithstanding the recommendation of the Royal Commission on University Education in Wales (1918) that 'the hospital side of the College of Medicine at the King Edward
MADOG ap LLYWELYN (fl. 1294), rebel was fifth-cousin to Llywelyn ap Gruffydd) now inspired him to assume the role of patriot leader. When, hard-pressed by a combination of grievances, the people of Wales rose against their oppressors in 1294, Madog placed himself at the head of the North Wales insurgents and claimed to be ' Prince of Wales.' The revolt began well for the rebels, and during the winter of 1294-5 they kept Edward on the
MAELGWN GWYNEDD (d. c. 547), king of Gwynedd and monk not long afterwards gave up all his royal power and dignity and entered a monastery as a monk. It was now or earlier that, as Gildas tells us, he listened to the instruction of 'the accomplished teacher of almost the whole of Britannia,' a teacher generally identified as the celebrated Illtud, the site of whose monastery has been assigned either to Llantwit Major in south Glamorgan or to Caldey
MANSEL family Oxwich, Penrice, Margam abbey, members of the family took in the history and literature of their county (and country) see G. J. Williams, Traddodiad Llenyddol Morgannwg (Cardiff, 1946); in particular consult the index to that work under Sir Edward Mansel (died 1585) and Sir Lewis Mansel (died 1636). The latter lent the ' Red Book of Hergest ' (now Jesus College MS. 1) to Dr. John Davies, Mallwyd, in 1634, whilst the former is
MANSELL, FRANCIS (1579 - 1665), principal of Jesus College, Oxford cf his two successors, until the Restoration restored him in his turn. But he was now an old man, with failing eyesight; he resigned in seven months (1661), being succeeded by Leoline Jenkins; but he continued to reside in college, and died there 1 May 1665; ' a man of sternness indeed, and severity … but one who had gained in a singular degree the love and veneration of every member of his College
MARQUAND, HILARY ADAIR (1901 - 1972), economist and Labour politician status, and shorn of its responsibilities for housing and planning, it was now outside the cabinet. In all these positions Marquand proved himself to be a humane and able administrator with an interest in social welfare issues. As an academic, he brought a calm and detached approach to the hurly-burly of political life. He was generally popular at Westminster, always listened to with respect by his
MATTAN, MAHMOOD HUSSEIN (1923 - 1952), seaman and victim of injustice City Police. In his summing up, Mattan's own defence barrister Mr Rhys-Roberts attempted to explain his client's behaviour but in doing so dehumanised him by describing him as a 'half child of nature, a semi-civilized savage'. After just three days the jury returned a verdict of guilty. Mattan had insisted on his innocence throughout the case, and now put all his hopes into trying to get a last

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