Dictionary of Welsh Biography

MORRIS, EDWARD ROWLEY (1828 - 1893), antiquary to London to be within reach of the record-collections. He died in London, 24 July 1893, but was buried at Newtown. He was one of the earliest members of the 'Powysland Club,' and contributed many important articles to Mont. Coll., Bye-Gones, and similar journals. In the opinion of his fellow- antiquary Richard Williams (1835 - 1906), his knowledge of Montgomeryshire history was 'perfectly unique.'
MORRIS, Sir RHYS HOPKIN (1888 - 1956), politician, stipendiary magistrate, first director of the Welsh Region B.B.C. and served throughout the war. He was twice mentioned in dispatches and awarded the M.B.E. (Military Division) for action in which he was severely wounded and carried shrapnel in his leg for the rest of his life. On 11 September 1918 he married Gwladys Perrie Williams (born 24 November 1889) daughter of Elizabeth (author of Brethyn Cartref (1951), etc.) and W.H. Williams, Llanrwst, whom he met at
MORRIS, RICHARD (1703 - 1779), founder of the Cymmrodorion Society Born 2 February 1702-3 at Y Fferem, Llanfihangel-tre'r-beirdd, Anglesey, son of Morris ap Rhisiart Morris and brother of Lewis, William, and John Morris. He worked at first in his father's workshop, and we have (in his own hand) a list of implements made there by him at 15. According to the papers of the late Iolo A. Williams, Richard went to London on 1 August 1722 and his brother Lewis on 7 May
MORRIS, RICHARD ROBERTS (1852 - 1935), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and poet - ' Yspryd byw y deffroadau ' - has become a national treasure. Alafon, Glan Llyfnwy, and he were great friends. He retired from the ministry in 1924 and went to live at Plas-y-coed, Betws Garmon, but continued to preach to within two years of his death. He died 24 August 1935 and was buried in Caeathro cemetery.
MORRIS, THOMAS (1786 - 1846), Baptist minister chapel; at Corntown and Pyle (1842-3); and again at Newport, ministering to a small body of worshippers which seceded from Charles Street, for whom he built a chapel. He had originally served his apprenticeship as a carpenter and, in the course of his ministry, built or enlarged twelve chapels and collected the money to pay off their debts; when the tenth was completed he was nicknamed 'Ten chapel Tom
MORTON, RICHARD ALAN (1899 - 1977), biochemist the third edition of his Biochemical Spectroscopy published in two volumes in 1975. A scientific article by him in Welsh, 'Agweddau Cemegol ar Weled' ('Chemical aspects of sight') was published in Y Gwyddonydd, 3, rfif 2 (Mehefin 1965), and he contributed essays to the Merseyside Welsh magazine, Y Bont. After his retirement in 1966, he was visiting professor at the University of Malta in 1969, and
MOSSELL, AARON ALBERT (1863 - 1951), lawyer, mining engineer and civil rights campaigner Aaron Mossell was born on 3 November 1863 in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, into an African American family, the youngest of six children of Aaron Mossell, a brickmaker and grandson of enslaved people, and his wife Eliza Bowers Mossell. His siblings were: Charles W. (1849-1915), Mary E. (1853-1886), James (b. 1853), Nathan Francis (1856-1946) and Alvaretta (b. 1858). The family later moved to
MOSTYN family Mostyn Hall, grandson estimated that his losses during the Civil War amounted to about £60,000. He was closely associated with the efforts made to restore the monarchy. In 1660 he was named as one of those qualified to be made a knight of the Royal Oak, created a baronet (3 August 1660), and became a deputy-lieutenant for Flintshire. The duke of Beaufort, during his 'Progress' of 1684 as Lord President of Wales, was
MYDDELTON family Gwaenynog, had property) in parliament in 1597 and as lord lieutenant in 1599, and advising the government on the choice of sheriffs there in 1602 (Hist. MSS. Comm., Cecil, iv, 375-6, v. 379, xii, 482-3). He farmed his Denbighshire lands in association with Lincolnshire properties, and drew on them for supplies for Ireland during a crisis of Bagnall's campaign (1595); he advanced money (on mortgage or
NICHOLL, Sir JOHN (1759 - 1838), judge Doctors' Commons, of which he was admitted an Advocate on 3 November 1785. His practice became extensive and he succeeded Sir William Scott (lord Stowell) as king's Advocate on 6 November 1798, and was knighted according to custom. He was elected to Parliament in 1802 and remained a member for different constituencies until the Reform Act dissolution in December 1832, when he retired. His parliamentary
NICHOLLS, ERITH GWYN (1875 - 1939), Wales and Cardiff Rugby centre three-quarter of the Welsh 'Big Five.' He died 24 March 1939. On 26 December 1949, the gates, which were erected to his memory at Cardiff Arms Park, were officially opened.
NORRIS, CHARLES (1779 - 1858), artist Born 24 August 1779, second son of John Norris, a wealthy London merchant, by his wife Catherine (Lynch), the divorced wife of Henry Knight of Tythegston, Glamorganshire. Though not a Welshman by birth, Norris lived and worked in Wales for nearly sixty years. He settled in 1800 at Milford, but removed in 1810 to Tenby, where he died 16 October 1858. The great majority of his pictures are

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