Dictionary of Welsh Biography

LLWYD, HUMPHREY (c. 1527 - 1568), antiquary and map-maker was in the service of Lord Stafford, to whom one of the texts is dedicated. Most subsequent biographers have followed Wood. After completing his studies, in 1553 he entered the service of Henry Fitzalan, twelfth Earl of Arundel, and Chancellor of the University at Oxford. With the accession of Mary I in 1553 Arundel was at the height of his power and entering the household of one of the leading
LORT family Stackpole, heir in the direct line was JOHN LORT, sheriff in 1775, who was dead by 1778. His daughter ELIZABETH married George Phillips, of Haverfordwest, from whom sprang the family of LORT PHILLIPS. But the last John Lort had an uncle, ROGER LORT, who was mortally wounded at Fontenoy in 1745 (memorial to him and his family in S. Mary's, Tenby - see Laws, Church Book of S. Mary…at Tenby, 84), and had married
LOVELAND, KENNETH (1915 - 1998), journalist and music critic widely known as one of the most urbane music critics, who could have occupied a position in any national daily. Despite his urbanity and contrary to all appearances, he had fully adopted Wales as his home for the last four decades of his life. He and his wife Anne regularly entertained members of the Welsh National Opera Chorus at their modest apartment in Cwmbran. A concert given by the London
LOWE, RICHARD (1810 - 1853), weaver and musician Born in 1810 at Llanidloes, Montgomeryshire, the son of Mathew and Mary Lowe. A weaver by trade, he was taught the elements of music by James and Richard Mills. He was precentor at Llanidloes parish church for many years. Two hymn-tunes by him, ' Pererindod ' and ' Diwygiad,' appeared in Caniadau Seion and its Atodiad (Richard Mills). He moved to Newtown, where he died in 1853.
LYNN-THOMAS, Sir JOHN (1861 - 1939), surgeon theories were set forth by him in a book called The Key of All Wales. Much to his chagrin, however, his conclusions were not acceptable to professional archaeologists. In 1892 he married Mary Rosena, only daughter of Edward Jenkins, Cardiff. He died at Llwyndyrus, 21 September 1939.
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 Born in January 1657, the son of Thomas and Anne Mackworth, of Betton Grange, Shropshire. (His grandfather and namesake was prominent both as a soldier and as a politician on the Puritan side in the Civil War). Mackworth matriculated from Magdalen College, Oxford, 11 December 1674, entered the Middle Temple on 10 June 1675, was called to the Bar in 1682, and was knighted by Charles II on 15
MADOCKS, WILLIAM ALEXANDER (1773 - 1828), industrialist and philanthropist , and this was named Portmadoc. He planned a railway along the embankment to carry slates from Ffestiniog to Portmadoc, and this plan was accomplished in 1831 by Samuel Holland. He was a pronounced Radical, and advocated Parliamentary Reform. His affairs went wrong, and he went to Paris, where he died in 29 September 1828, and where he was also buried. His wife, Eliza Anne, whom he married in 1818
MANSEL family Oxwich, Penrice, Margam abbey, . Following him came RICHARD (ROBERT ?) MANSEL, RICHARD MANSEL, Sir HUGH MANSEL (who married Isabel, daughter and heiress of Sir John Penrice of Penrice castle in Gower), and PHILIP MANSEL, slain in the Wars of the Roses and attainted. Philip Mansel's wife was Mary, daughter of Gruffudd ap Nicolas of Newton; their son JENKIN MANSEL of Oxwich, ' The Valiant,' had the attainder reversed in 1485. It was Sir
MANSEL, BUSSY (1623 - 1699) Briton Ferry, parliamentary commander and Member of Parliament . L 104 (14 and 15 February 1669/70) refers to the working of a coal mine. L 149 shows that Bussy had married, as his second wife, an Anne, to whom he writes on 5 May 1678, requesting her to pay Sir Edward Mansell the sum of £62 ls. 6d., 'Sir Edward haveing allready disbursed soe much for me to my souldiers …' L 190 (16 August 1687) is a letter to him about timber bought of Sir Humphrey Mackworth, L
MANSEL, Sir ROBERT (1573 - 1656), admiral , who died in 1656 (his will was administered by his widow on 20 June 1656), had been twice married: (1), before 1600, to Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Nicholas Bacon, lord keeper, and (2), 1617, to Anne, daughter of Sir John Roper. There was no issue of either marriage.
MANSEL, WILLIAM LORT (1753 - 1820), Master of Trinity, and bishop not clear just how the family was related on the one hand to the Mansels of Margam or Muddlescombe or on the other to the Wogan s; but it is known that both branches of the Mansels had from time to time intermarried with the Wogan family of Wiston and of Boulston. W. L. Mansel's mother was Anne Lort, daughter of that Roger Lort of Prickaston who died after Fontenoy (1745), and sister of Michael Lort

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