Dictionary of Welsh Biography

MARCH, 4th Earl of - see MORTIMER, ROGER de
MAREDUDD ap RHYS GRYG (d. 1271), prince of Deheubarth the general homage sworn to Llywelyn early in 1258, and in the Scottish agreement in March, later in the year he transferred his allegiance to the king. His action gave rise to a notable trial, the first of its kind in Wales : on 28 May 1259 he was charged with treason before a council of native lords, was condemned, and imprisoned for a time in Criccieth castle. The terms of his reconciliation with
MARQUAND, HILARY ADAIR (1901 - 1972), economist and Labour politician . Immediately on his election to parliament, he was appointed by Attlee to be Secretary for Overseas Trade, August 1945-March 1947, and then Paymaster-General, March 1947-July 1948, Minister of Pensions, July 1948-January 1951, and he was sworn of the Privy Council in 1949. He succeeded Aneurin Bevan as Minister of Health from January until October 1951 but by this time the post had been reduced in scope and
MARSHAL family (earls of Pembroke), Maelgwn ap Rhys and his nephew, Rhys Ieuanc, invaded them in 1215. When hostilities ended with the Peace of Worcester (March 1218) William Marshal, in the interest of the pacification of the country, willingly allowed Llywelyn ap Iorwerth to have the custody of the royal castles of Cardigan and Carmarthen, but he retained Caerleon which he had wrested from Morgan ap Hywel in 1217. He was a benefactor of
MARSHALL, WALTER CHARLES (1932 - 1996), scientist Walter Marshall was born on 5 March 1932 in Rumney, Cardiff, the youngest of three children of Frank Marshall, a baker, and his wife Amy. He showed an early talent for mathematics which was encouraged at St Illtyd's Grammar School, Cardiff. At the age of 11 he developed an interest in chess, and was junior chess champion of Wales by the age of 15. Marshall left school with a Major County
MATTAN, MAHMOOD HUSSEIN (1923 - 1952), seaman and victim of injustice .1948), Omar Mattan (b.1949) and Mervyn Mattan (b.1951). Mattan left the Merchant Navy in 1949, and then worked in various jobs, including one in a steel foundry. On the evening of 6 March 1952, a Ukrainian Jewish shopkeeper named Lily Volpert was brutally murdered in her shop, and rumours began to circulate that a Somali man had been seen there at the time of the killing. Cardiff City Police
MAURICE, HENRY (1634 - 1682), Independent minister Deneio, and the Henry Maurice who supplied marginal readings for the second part of Cannwyll y Cymry published in the end of 1659 or the beginning of 1660, readings to make the text better understanded of the people of North Wales. He conformed at the Restoration; in March 1661, he was made vicar of Bromfield-by-Ludlow; in April of the same year he was named rector of Mellteyrn, Caernarfonshire, which
MAURICE, HUGH (1775 - 1825), skinner, and transcriber of Welsh manuscripts the president, Thomas Roberts, Llwyn-rhudol, and the recorder, John Jones ('Jac Glan-y-gors') were at the wedding. He later resided at Greenwich, Pengwern (Ffestiniog), Tremadoc, and Plâs Gwyn, Llan-rug, where he died 18 March 1825. He was buried at Llanfihangel Glyn Myfyr. An excellent penman, he was also an amateur artist. One of his early transcripts, poems by Gwalchmai, is written in 'bardic
MAURICE, WILLIAM (d. 1680), antiquary and collector of manuscripts Gethin of Maesbrook; (2) to Elizabeth, daughter of George Ludlow of Morehouse, and widow of Thomas Gethin, and by her he had one daughter, Elizabeth, who married George Jukes of Pool. In 1678 he had a share in (Sir) William Williams's attempt to purchase the Hengwrt library.He was buried at a great age at Llansilin, 23 March 1680. His library he left to his daughter, Lettice. It was valued, in 1682
McBRIDE, NEIL (1910 - 1974), Labour politician within the Paisley Labour Party. He was a member of the Paisley Co-operative Manufacturing Society for seventeen years and chairman of Paisley CLP, 1950-62. He unsuccessfully contested Perth and East Perthshire in the general election of October 1951 and the High Peak division of Derbyshire in 1955. He entered parliament as the Labour MP for Swansea East in a by-election in March 1963 as successor to D
McGRATH, MICHAEL JOSEPH (1882 - 1961), Archbishop Born in Kilkenny in Ireland, 24 March 1882. He was educated at the local Christian Brothers' School and went from there to Rockwell College, Co. Tipperary. While there, his interest in the Irish language grew and he went on to gain a B.A. degree in the language in the National University of Ireland. Several years later, the same university awarded him the honorary degree of D.Litt. After
MEREDITH, Sir JOHN (1714 - 1780), lawyer was a native of Radnorshire. He was high sheriff of Brecknock in 1762 (the year of his knighthood, it would seem), and also of Radnorshire - in 1780, according to the printed copy of his memorial inscription (Jones, History of the County of Brecknock, 3rd ed., ii, 91), but in 1767 according to the list of sheriffs in Jonathan Williams's Hist. Radnorshire, 2nd ed., 97. He died 6 March 1780; his

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