Dictionary of Welsh Biography

MALKIN, BENJAMIN HEATH (1769 - 1842), antiquary and author , 452-3); he also published separately a lecture delivered by him to the Society. He died at Cowbridge 26 May 1842, and he and his wife are commemorated in an inscription in the church. His son, Sir BENJAMIN MALKIN, who died before him (1837), was a judge at Calcutta and a friend of Macaulay 's.
MANSEL, WILLIAM LORT (1753 - 1820), Master of Trinity, and bishop epigrams, and his satirical verse. He became Master at a difficult time, when the Fellows were at loggerheads over the political controversies of the Revolutionary period, but he showed remarkable skill in handling the situation - see G. M. Trevelyan, Trinity College, 81-3. But we are here more concerned with his Welsh associations. He was born in Pembroke town; his father was William Wogan Mansel. It is
MARKS, DAVID (1788 - 1871), musician Born in the parish of Cilrhedyn, Carmarthenshire. By trade a stonemason, he was also a competent musician who performed good service to the community by holding music classes in various districts. Two of his hymn-tunes, ' Cannon Street ' and ' Manchester,' were published in Haleliwia Drachefn, 1855. He died 3 October 1871 at Ffynnondrain, parish of Newchurch, near Carmarthen.
MARQUAND, HILARY ADAIR (1901 - 1972), economist and Labour politician He was born on 24 December 1901 at 4 Marlborough Road, Cardiff, the elder son of Alfred Marquand, a native of Guernsey and a clerk in a coal exporting company, and Mary Adair his wife who was of Scottish descent. Some of the family were Cardiff shipowners. He was educated at Cardiff High School and, as the holder of a prestigious state scholarship, at University College, Cardiff. He graduated
MARSDEN, THOMAS (1802 - 1849), cleric and author Born in 1802 (or 1801), son of David Marsden, a lead-miner of the Lampeter neighbourhood. He was educated at S. David's College there, ordained in 1827, and licensed to Llan-y-crwys (1827-9), Tir-abad (1829-31), and again to Llan-y-crwys (1831-8). From 1838 till his resignation in 1840, he was vicar of Brymbo, and from 1843 till his death, rector of Llanfrothen. He died 24 October 1849, in his
MARSH, RICHARD (1710? - 1792), bookseller and printer A. N. Palmer in his History of Wrexham and by William Rowlands (in Llyfryddiaeth y Cymry). He was certainly printing in 1772, as Cyfarwyddiad i Fesurwyr and Cydymaith i'r Allor belong to that year. Many of the products of his press were of cheap booklets and ballads. He died 24 May 1792, and was buried in Wrexham churchyard. Richard Marsh was succeeded by his son, JOHN MARSH (1747 - 1795), a
MARSHAL family (earls of Pembroke), honour of Carmarthen. He kept Morgan ap Hywel out of his ancestral seat at Caerleon and in 1236 for a time seized his castle of Machen. He was a benefactor of the abbey of Tintern and the leper's hospital of S. Mary Magdalene of Little Haverford. WALTER MARSHAL (died 24 November 1245) He was sent by his brother, earl Gilbert, to fortify Cardigan in 1240; he also took for his brother lands appurtenant
MASON, LILIAN JANE (1874 - 1953), actress 1932, Lilian and Edmund's son, Samuel, died of heart failure in New York. Lilian and Edmund lived out their last years in Brighton until, on 28 January 1953, they both died within hours of each other, Edmund aged 79 and Lilian 78. They were buried on 3 February at Patcham cemetery, Brighton. Their devotion to each other is recorded on their grave with the words 'In their death they were not divided'.
MATTAN, MAHMOOD HUSSEIN (1923 - 1952), seaman and victim of injustice -minute reprieve by the Home Secretary David Maxwell Fyfe, but was denied despite his heart-felt letter pleading for mercy. Mahmood Hussein Mattan was executed by Albert Pierrepoint on 3 September 1952, the last man to be hanged at Cardiff Prison. For the next 46 years the Mattan family fought to clear his name, living in the shadow of an injustice which threatened to tear them all apart. In 1969, a
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, WILLIAM (d. 1680), antiquary and collector of manuscripts Welsh laws which his cousin Meredith Lloyd of Bryn Elen gave him (Wynnstay MS. 36). He transcribed a considerable body of Welsh poetry, and made a pioneer study of the texts of the Welsh laws in his ' Deddfgrawn ' or ' Corpus Hoelianum ' (Wynnstay MSS. 37-8) in 1660-3. He was interested in the early history of Wales and the Celts. He wrote a letter on Brennus to Robert Vaughan in 1662 (Wynnstay MS. 12
MAURICE, Sir WILLIAM (1542 - 1622), politician achieved in partnership with the other British peoples; the bard Richard Owen aptly describes him (Brogyntyn MS. 3/376) as ' penn plaid brytaniaid.' His death (10 August 1622) is recorded on a tombstone (now almost obliterated) in Penmorfa church. His surviving heiress Elin, lady (Francis) Eure (1578 - 1626), daughter of his eldest son, William Wyn Maurice, and widow of Sir Francis Walsingham's secretary

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