Dictionary of Welsh Biography

MORGAN, RICHARD WILLIAMS (Môr Meirion; c. 1815 - c. 1889), cleric and author
MORGAN, THOMAS (1543 - c. 1605), Roman Catholic conspirator
MORGAN, Sir THOMAS (c. 1542 - 1595), soldier
MORGAN, WILLIAM (c. 1545 - 1604), bishop, and translator of the Bible into Welsh
MORRIS, DAVID (1787 - 1858), Calvinistic Methodist preacher publisher of Pantycelyn ''s works; born in 1787, son of John and Ann Morris of Melin Clun-hir, Llandybie, Carmarthenshire. He was a dissolute young man until he was converted by the Independent Rhys Powel of Cross Inn. He joined the Methodists at Betws, but shortly afterwards changed over to Hendre chapel. He began to preach c. 1816 but was never ordained; it seems likely, however, that he was
MORRIS, DAVID (Eiddil Gwent; c. 1798 - 1878), author
MORRIS, EBENEZER (1769 - 1825), Calvinistic Methodist minister Born at Henbant, Lledrod, Cardiganshire, in 1769, the eldest son of David Morris (1744 - 1791) and Mary, his wife. 'In 1774 he moved with his father to Tredreyr parish where he was given a little education by Daniel Davies, the local curate. He opened his own school at Trecastle, Brecknock, c. 1786, and experienced a spiritual awakening under the ministry of the Methodist exhorter, Dafydd William
MORRIS, RICHARD (1703 - 1779), founder of the Cymmrodorion Society not know even the names of his first two wives. The first, whom he married in 1729, died c. 1740; of their children, much is said in his letters of a daughter Marian, who married badly and is lost to sight in 1763, but was still living when her father made his will. The second marriage was in 1741, and the wife died in 1750; of this marriage there were again several children, but all died before
MORRIS, VALENTINE (1727 - 1789), colonial administrator and landowner Valentine Morris was born on 27 October 1727 on Antigua, the eldest son of Lt. Col. Valentine Morris (c.1678-1743), an influential plantation owner on that island, and his second wife, Elizabeth (née Wilmont). In 1736, Valentine Morris the elder moved to Britain and purchased Piercefield, near Chepstow in Monmouthshire, formerly the seat of the Walter family, which he expanded. At the age of
MORRIS, WILLIAM (c. 1816? - 1886), printer and publisher of books and periodicals of Anglican interest
MORRIS, WILLIAM (1783 - 1861), Calvinistic Methodist minister society as a young man and began to preach c. 1801. In 1812 he was licensed as a dissenting minister; and he was ordained at the Llangeitho Association in 1815. He is described as William Morris, ' Minister of the Gospel ', Clydau, in his bond dated 22 August 1822 to marry Lettice Morris, Llansteffan. About 1835-6 he moved to St. Davids, where he died 8 December 1861, and was buried in the cathedral
MORTIMER family Wigmore, The Mortimer family came over to England from Normandy as part of the invading army of William the Conqueror, and c. 1075, one of the family, RALPH de MORTIMER, was granted certain lands in Shropshire and Herefordshire, with the castle and township of Wigmore in the latter county as focal point. It was from this beginning that the family eventually grew to be a dominant factor in Welsh border

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