Dictionary of Welsh Biography

MAURICE family Clenennau, Glyn (Cywarch), Penmorfa Meredydd ab Ievan ap Robert, Gwydir, and (d) Ellen, wife of John Wynn ap Meredydd, Gwydir, sheriff of Caernarvonshire, 1544-5. The first wife of ELLIS AP MAURICE (died 1571, aged 78 - he is often named Elisa or Eliza Morris) was Catherine, daughter of Piers Stanley, who was sheriff of Merioneth from 1485 until 1509. Catherine became the mother of MAURICE AB ELLIS (died 18 October 1575 at the age of 58
MAURICE, DAVID (1626 - 1702), cleric and translator , according to D. R. Thomas (A History of the Diocese of St. Asaph), bore ' not the shield of Owen Gwynedd nor of Einion Efell, but that of Cunedda Wledig.' David Maurice matriculated from Jesus College, Oxford, 3 June 1651. He graduated B.A. 1654/5, and M.A. 1657, from New College. He held the following ecclesiastical preferments - vicar of Llangernyw, 1662; rector of Cegidog S. George, Denbighshire, 1663
MAURICE, HUGH (1775 - 1825), skinner, and transcriber of Welsh manuscripts Born at Tyddyn Tudur, Llanfihangel Glyn Myfyr, Denbighshire, in 1775 (christened 5 June), son of Peter Maurice and Jane, his wife, sister of Owen Jones (Owain Myfyr). He worked with his uncle in Upper Thames Street, sharing his literary and social activities in London. Under the latter's direction he began to transcribe Welsh manuscript texts in prose and verse, and he became a prominent member
MAURICE, WILLIAM (d. 1680), antiquary and collector of manuscripts , from a list, at £60 by Edward Millington, and sold to (Sir) William Williams. Until about 1771 it was kept at Llanvorda, and then removed to Wynnstay, where it was practically all lost by fire, 5-6 March 1858. In addition to the manuscripts cited, the chief surviving manuscripts in the hand of William Maurice are Llanstephan MS 15, Llanstephan MS 31, Llanstephan MS 54 and Llanstephan MS 197. In some
MENDS, CHRISTOPHER (1724? - 1799), Methodist exhorter, afterwards Independent minister Christopher supervised the society at Carmarthen and William that at Laugharne. According to a Moravian record (Y Cymmrodor, xlv, 34), William also 'dissented' - this indeed is implied by the registration of the house. Nothing further is known of William, but Christopher died at Plymouth, 5 April 1799; there is an autobiography in the Evangelical Magazine, 1799, 397. In Transactions of the Anglesey
MERRICK, RICE (d. 1586-7), landed gentleman, genealogist, and historian (2nd ed. by J. A. Corbett, 1887). A second copy, made c. 1674-5, is in the Cardiff Public Library. The book is entitled A Book of Glamorganshire Antiquities, and it is said to have been completed in 1578. As will be seen, the work is in English, and it is divided into three parts. In the first part, the characteristics of the region are described; in the second is shown how the country was divided
MEYRICK family Hascard, Fleet, Bush, Wigmore, MEYRICK (kt. 5 August 1599, died 29 July 1660) Of Fleet, Monkton, younger brother of Sir Gelly, was with him in Ireland (commanding the west Wales contingents), and also took a minor part in the rising but escaped punishment. Sir Francis's third son, Sir JOHN MEYRICK (died 1659), soldier, was knighted in 1614 (13 June), accompanied the 3rd earl of Essex to Flanders in 1620, and subsequently fought in
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
MILLS, RICHARD (Rhydderch Hael; 1809 - 1844), musician . More tunes and anthems appeared in Yr Arweinydd Cerddorol (three parts, 1842-5, the last posthumous), with hints on music and on singing; in this work a German hymn-tune (J. S. Bach's ' Mannheim') appeared for the first time in Wales. The three parts had a very wide sale, and greatly improved congregational singing. Mills also lectured widely on this subject. He died 24 December 1844; his widow
MILLS-ROBERTS, ROBERT HERBERT (1862 - 1935), surgeon, and association football player Born 5 August 1862 at Ffestiniog, son of Robert Roberts, Plas-meini, manager of the Oakeley quarries. From the University College at Aberystwyth, he went up to S. Thomas's Hospital and qualified in 1887, becoming F.R.C.S. (Edin.) in 1893. When the South African War broke out, Mills-Roberts, then surgeon to the Llanberis quarry hospital, joined A. W. Hughes at the Welsh Hospital in South Africa
MORGAN (fl. 1294), rebel He was the leader of the Glamorgan insurgents during the rising of Madog ap Llywelyn in 1294-5. Owing to personal grievances against the De Clares, he claimed to be at war only against the lords of Glamorgan. He may, therefore, have been Morgan ap Maredudd, a direct descendant of Rhydderch ap Iestyn; his father, Maredudd, the last native lord of Caerleon, had been deprived twenty years earlier by
MORGAN family Tredegar Park, 1581 and Member of Parliament for the county in 1588-9. He was succeeded by his eldest son, Sir WILLIAM MORGAN (1560 - 1653) of Tredegar. He was knighted in 1603, became sheriff of Monmouthshire in 1612, and Member of Parliament for the same county, 1624-5. He received Charles I at Tredegar, 16-17 July 1645. He was twice married, (1) to Elizabeth, daughter of Sir William Winter of Lidney; (2) to

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