Dictionary of Welsh Biography

LORT family Stackpole, going to Westminster and thence to Cambridge; he died at Colchester 5 November 1790. Lort became Regius Professor of Greek; he was also an antiquary, and a friend of Gray and of Boswell. He knew no Welsh, but was led by curiosity concerning Celtic poetry to consult Richard Morris and to correspond with Lewis Morris - see Morris Letters, ii, 537, 544, 550, 555, 557, 565, 581, and Add. M.L., pp. 466-8
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
LOYD, LEWIS (1767 - 1858), banker
LUMLEY, RICHARD (1810 - 1884), Calvinistic Methodist minister Born 23 October 1810, at Aberystwyth, eldest of the eleven children of Edward Lumley, builder. He was educated in the well-known school kept by John Evans (1796 - 1861) in that town, and afterwards in the little grammar school at Llanfihangel-genau'r-glyn - in both, Lewis Edwards was his fellow-pupil and the two became intimate friends. He began to preach in 1829 and opened a (not too successful
MACDONALD, GORDON (first Baron MACDONALD of GWAENYSGOR), (1888 - 1966), politician first chairman of the National Broadcasting Council for Wales throughout the 1950s that he became best well known in Wales. He published speeches and radio addresses he had made in Newfoundland in Newfoundland at the cross roads (1949), and his parliamentary impressions, Atgofion seneddol (1953). He married, 1913, Mary Lewis of Blaenau Ffestiniog and they had four children. He died 20 January 1966
MACKWORTH, Sir HUMPHREY (1657 - 1727), industrialist and parliamentarian 1708, but Lewis Pryse of Gogerddan was himself a candidate. Mackworth therefore contested Cardigan boroughs at a by-election in February 1710, but the financial scandal was then at its height, and he was defeated. He was once more returned for the shire in October 1710, and sat until 1713. He was an active member and served on an unusually large number of committees. His political views were typical
MACLEAN, Sir EWEN JOHN (1865 - 1953), first professor of obstetrics and gynaecology at the Welsh National School of Medicine support of his sister Agnes in his public duties, and her devoted care during his last years. He died on 13 October 1953 and following a funeral service at Windsor Place Presbyterian Church, Cardiff he was laid to rest in the family grave in Llangunnor churchyard near Carmarthen, close to where David Charles, the hymnwriter and Sir Lewis Morris, the poet also lie. Inside the church is a window depicting
MADRYN family Madryn, Llŷn It is a great mistake to think that it was the family of Parry of Madryn who were the original holders of this estate; the Parry s did not arrive till the marriage of the third Love Parry of Cefnllanfair with Sidney Lewis in 1763; and neither of the two had the slightest connection with the old family. The Madryns were grounded deeply in the parishes of Llandudwen and Ceidio for generations, with
MANSEL family Oxwich, Penrice, Margam abbey, , Carmarthenshire - see catalogue of the Muddlescombe Estate Records in N.L.W., and the article on Francis Mansell), and Sir Robert Mansel, vice-admiral of England. Sir Thomas Mansel (died 1631), baronet, who held the offices of sheriff and knight of the shire for Glamorgan and one of whose sons was ARTHUR MANSEL, father of Bussy Mansel, was succeeded by his eldest son, Sir LEWIS MANSEL (died 1638), 2nd baronet
MANSEL, Sir ROBERT (1573 - 1656), admiral Fourth (or sixth?) son of Sir Edward Mansel (died 1585), of Penrice, Oxwich, and Margam, by his wife, lady Jane Somerset, daughter of Henry, 2nd earl of Worcester. His career, which is described in the D.N.B., touches the naval history of England much more closely than it did Wales but it is of interest to recall that, by the marriage of his nephew, Sir Lewis Mansel, there was a family connection
MARDY-JONES, THOMAS ISAAC (1879 - 1970), economist and politician . In the following year he suffered an eye accident, and in 1909 he was appointed a parliamentary agent to the South Wales Miners' Federation. He gave particular attention to the activities of local government and the rating system. Mardy-Jones was elected an M.P. (L.) for the Pontypridd division in a by-election in July 1922 when he defeated the Liberal T.A. Lewis. He continued to represent this
MATHEW family Castell y Mynach, This family had held posts as stewards and seneschals during the 14th cent, for absent English lords. It was of the same stock as Lewis of Van, and derived according to 15th century pedigrees from Gwaethvoed of Ceredigion. Sir DAVID MATHEW (fl. 1428-84), the son of a supporter of Owain Glyn Dŵr, was a dependent of the Nevilles and a leading Yorkist. From Sir David and his wife Wenllian Herbert

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