Dictionary of Welsh Biography

MILES, JOHN (1621 - 1683), Particular Baptist leader and American settler secure disciples with convictions as abiding as himself; in his case, notably Lewis Thomas, who supervised the area between Bridgend and Carmarthen in the days of persecution, and William Prichard, who had the guardianship of the eastern districts, with Abergavenny as nucleus, and who, by his baptising William Jones (died c. 1700) of Rhydwilym about 1667, opened the way for such intense Baptist
MILLER, WILLIAM HALLOWES (1801 - 1880), crystallographer Born 6 April 1801 at Felindre near Llandovery - his mother was Welsh. He went to S. John's College, Cambridge, was fifth wrangler in 1826, became Fellow in 1829, and professor of mineralogy in 1832. He occupied his chair for forty-eight years - it is curious to note that what with Miller and W. J. Lewis, this chair was held by Welshmen for ninety-four consecutive years. The D.N.B. has a full
MORGAN family Tredegar Park, -y-Clepa, and PHILIP, the founder of the family of Lewis of S. Pierre. Thomas Wakeman in his notes on the pedigree of the Tredegar family among the Tredegar papers deposited at the National Library of Wales, states that Morgan was alive in 1375, as he is a witness to a deed in that year, but was dead in 1387, because his son, LLYWELYN AP MORGAN, served on the jury of the I.P.M. of Hugh Stafford
MORGAN, Sir CHARLES (1575? - 1643?), soldier nobleman Philip de Marnix de Ste. Aldegonde (died 1598), William the Silent's coadjutor in the Netherlands Revolt. Their only child, ANN MORGAN (died 1687), came home and married (1) Sir Lewis Morgan of Rhiwpera, Monmouth (Member of Parliament for Cardiff, 1628, knighted 1629, died 1635), and (2) Walter Strickland, who became a Member of Cromwell's Council of State and ' Other House,' and (3) John
MORGAN, DAVID EIRWYN (1918 - 1982), college principal and minister (B) , 1960-72. One striking feature was 'The Editor's Diary', which, under different titles continued to be published in Seren Cymru until the end of 1976. Eirwyn Morgan had also been a regular contributor to Seren Gomer. As a young minister he had been one of those who had been invited to edit the publication until Lewis Valentine could take up the appointment in 1951 and it was he who succeeded Valentine
MORGAN, DYFNALLT (1917 - 1994), poet, literary critic and translator '. Saunders Lewis, one of the three judges that year, would have awarded him the crown as he felt that the portrayal of social and cutural change in a declining industrial town given in the poem was the most powerful one in the competition. The poem, written in the Welsh dialect spoken in Glamorgan, tells the story of a middle-aged man returning to Dowlais for an old friend's funeral. He notices the empty
MORGAN, ELENA PUW (1900 - 1973), novelist, author of fiction and short stories for children Elena Puw Morgan was born on 19 April 1900 in Corwen, Meirionethshire, the daughter of the Revd Lewis Davies (1859-1934), a Congregationalist minister, and his wife Kate (née Ellis, 1868-1942). She was a bookish child, reading widely in English authors including Shakespeare, Shelley and Tennyson, as well as in Welsh literature. She was educated at Bala Girls' Grammar School, but poor health
MORGAN, ELUNED (1870 - 1938), writer and Patagonian colonist Born on board the Myfanwy in the Bay of Biscay, daughter of Lewis Jones (1836 - 1904), and given the surname 'Morgan' at her christening. She was brought up in the Welsh colony in Patagonia, where she was educated at the Welsh school kept by R. J. Berwyn and 'Glan Tywi.' She came to Wales in 1885, and again in 1888 when she entered Dr. Williams's school at Dolgelley, where she spent the next two
MORGAN, IWAN JAMES (1904 - 1966), extra-mural tutor and politician social subjects. He was a member of Plaid Cymru in the 1930s, but a disagreement with Saunders Lewis over his attitude towards Socialism led him to join the Labour Party. He was chosen as the Labour prospective parliamentary candidate for Cardiganshire in 1940, and stood against Roderick Bowen in 1945 and 1950. Morgan published in 1943 the pamphlets in Attlee's Reply following the response of the
MORGAN, JENKIN (d. 1762), Independent minister the list of Blaen-gwrach members in 1734, contained in J. Rufus Williams's reprint of ' Henry Davies's Pocket-book ' - and it may be significant that the place of his ordination was Watford, near Caerphilly. Morgan was one of Griffith Jones's 'circulating' schoolmasters. In a letter February 1739 by Lewis Rees, printed by Bennett, Meth. Trefaldwyn Uchaf, 14-16), he kept schools at Llanbryn-mair
MORGAN, JOHN (1688? - 1734?) Matchin, cleric, scholar, and author , from 1717 till 1726, and then rector of Llanaber (Barmouth) till his death on 18 June 1749, aged 63. He took an interest in Welsh literature, and had some old manuscripts - Lewis Morris in 1747 speaks of one of them (Cambrian Register, ii, 540). John Morgan, like his brother, graduated in 1708; he was curate of Llandegfan in 1709-10, and afterwards of Llanfyllin, a place which he regarded with
MORGAN, JOHN JENKYN (Glanberach; 1875 - 1961), local historian and essayist (1939), Llanrwst (1951), Pwllheli (1955): some of these compositions are in the National Library. He was one of the Presidents of the Day at the Bridgend National Eisteddfod in 1948 and he was the oldest member of the Gorsedd following the death of Elfed (H. Elvet Lewis) in 1953. He broadcast frequently and wrote articles on local history to Welsh periodicals. He collected a large library of material

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