Dictionary of Welsh Biography

LLYWELYN-WILLIAMS, ALUN (1913 - 1988), poet and literary critic . He was wounded in the leg in an accident on 1 March 1945, and it would always be very distressful for him to recollect that incident in which his driver was killed. The war very nearly destroyed his creativity completely: having seen language being mistreated and manipulated to serve repugnant ideologies during the war, he was afraid to use it for political purposes as he had done in his early
LOUGHER, Sir LEWIS (1871 - 1955), industrialist and politician Born 1 October 1871, second son of Thomas Lougher of Llandaff, Glamorganshire, and Charlotte, daughter of David Lewis, a farmer of Radyr Farm, Radyr, Cardiff. His family was deeply rooted in Glamorganshire; his father came from Wenvoe and his paternal grandfather from Garn-llwyd, Llancarfan. He was educated in Cardiff Secondary School and Cardiff Technical College, and was apprenticed to corn
LOVEGROVE, EDWIN WILLIAM (1868 - 1956), schoolmaster and an authority on Gothic architecture , Grimsby; Stamford; and Ruthin, 1913-30. He married (1), 1899, Septima Jane Roberts (died 30 April 1928), sister of William Rhys Roberts, and they had a son, Wynne, who fell at Dunkirk, and two daughters. He married (2), Kathleen Agnes Sanders. After retiring he lived at St. Asaph, 1930-31; Chipping Campden, 1932-41; Abergavenny, 1942-45; and at Fownhope, Herefordshire until he died, 11 March 1956. He
LOYD, LEWIS (1767 - 1858), banker Born 1 January 1767 at Cwm-y-to, in the parish of Llanwrda, Carmarthenshire. At a school conducted by David Price, at Llan-y-crwys, near Lampeter, he acquired liberal views of Christian truth and, in 1785, entered the Presbyterian Academy of 'Carmarthen,' situated at that time at Swansea, completing his course in 1789. In the same year, his hope of a tutorship being disappointed by the election
MACKWORTH, CECILY JOAN (1911 - 2006), writer, poet, journalist and traveller died in action on the Western Front on 1 November 1914, two days after becoming a Major and less than a year after his second child was born. Cecily and her baby sister moved with their mother to Somerset. In 1922 Dorothy Mackworth married the equine artist Charles Edward Gatehouse. The family settled in Sidmouth, Devon. After a succession of governesses, Cecily Mackworth boarded for two years at
MAINWARING, WILLIAM HENRY (1884 - 1971), Labour politician returned to the Central Labour College where he lectured in economics and served as vice-principal, 1919-24. He succeeded A. J. Cook as the miners' agent for the Rhondda no. 1 district of the SWMF, the largest district in the whole of the south Wales coalfield, serving from 1924 until 1934. Mainwaring was elected as the Labour MP for the Rhondda East division in a by-election in 1933 following the death
MANSEL family Oxwich, Penrice, Margam abbey, , who matriculated at Oxford, 30 January 1600/1 and was admitted to Lincoln's Inn, 5 February 1603/4. Anthony Wood says that he gave £50 a year for several years towards the library of Jesus College, Oxford; he was first cousin to Francis Mansell, principal of Jesus College, Oxford. Sir Lewis Mansel appears to have been succeeded, as 3rd baronet, by his son, HENRY MANSEL, who, however, died young
MANSEL, Sir ROBERT (1573 - 1656), admiral , who died in 1656 (his will was administered by his widow on 20 June 1656), had been twice married: (1), before 1600, to Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Nicholas Bacon, lord keeper, and (2), 1617, to Anne, daughter of Sir John Roper. There was no issue of either marriage.
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
MARGED vch IFAN (MARGED vch IFAN (Margaret Evans; 1696 - 1801?), 'character' ); there, she ferried the copper-ore from the foot of Snowdon to Penllyn. Thomas Pennant visited her house in 1786, but she was not at home. Pennant (Tours in Wales, 1883 edn., ii, 320-1) recounts marvellous tales about her. She kept, says he, a dozen hounds or more, and could catch more foxes in a year than the hunts could catch in ten; she knew old airs and played them on the fiddle; she was a good
MARSHALL, WALTER CHARLES (1932 - 1996), scientist . Walter Marshall died of cancer on 20 February 1996 at the Royal Marsden Hospital, Sutton, London, and his funeral was held on 1 March in St Andrew's Church, South Stoke, Goring in Oxfordshire.
MATHEWS, ABRAHAM (1832 - 1899), Independent minister, colonist, and writer authoritative book on the subject. He edited the Drafod, 1896-9. He died 1 April 1899, and was buried in Moriah graveyard; in 1949 a memorial tablet was unveiled to him in that chapel.

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