Dictionary of Welsh Biography

MADDOCK, Sir IEUAN (1917 - 1988), Chief Scientist to the Department of Industry projectiles was attained by his use of electronic instruments and use of the transistor following its invention in 1947. For ensuring the successful firing and collection of all required data from the atomic bomb test on 3 Oct 1952 at Montebello he was appointed OBE in 1953. He became Head of the Field Experiments Division of the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment in 1960, continuing his involvement in
MADOG ap LLYWELYN (fl. 1294), rebel defensive in the neighbourhood of Conway. In March, however, Madog led a force into Powys, where, being taken unawares by the earl of Warwick, he was defeated with heavy losses on the field of Maes Meidog (or Moydog) in Caereinion. He barely escaped with his life into the hills of Snowdonia where he remained a fugitive until his unconditional surrender to John de Havering late in July or in early August
MADRYN family Madryn, Llŷn younger branches settled at Carngiwch and Llannerch-fawr. One of them, THOMAS MADRYN, was in the age of Elizabeth, together with other squires of Llŷn, in serious trouble on account of the unscrupulous schemes of the earl of Leicester; his son, ROBERT MADRYN, married into the house of Bodvel (first wife) and that of Cefn Amwlch (second). His grandson was THOMAS MADRYN, the greatest of the family
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, Sir ROBERT (1573 - 1656), admiral John Hollond, and A Discourse of the Navy, by Sir Robert Slyngesbie (ed. Tanner, 1896), (ii) The Autobiography of Phineas Pett (ed. Perrin, 1918), (iii) The Naval Tracts of Sir William Monson (ed. Oppenheim, 5 vols., 1902-1914). It may be added that these contemporary naval papers suggest that Mansell's appointment as vice-admiral in 1618 was not in fact a promotion, but rather a deliberate removal
MARC, SIARL (1720 - 1795) Tŷ-mawr, Bryncroes, Llŷn, Calvinistic Methodist exhorter, and hymn-writer After his conversion about 1741 he became far and away the most important exhorter in his part of Wales. He is thought to have been a carpenter by trade. He had changed his home three or four times before settling at Tŷ-mawr farm, Bryncroes. This is what Robert Jones of Rhos-lan says about him in Drych yr Amseroedd : 'He was a man of great intelligence, strong in the true doctrine, and clearly
MAREDUDD ap IEUAN ap ROBERT ap MAREDUDD Gwydir (fl. end of 15th century) - see WYNN
MATHEW family Castell y Mynach, , lord Justice of Appeal (died 1908). HENRY MATTHEWS (1826 - 1913), Q.C., Conservative home secretary, 1886-92, came of a Tory county family connected with the Radyr line and settled at Belmont, near Hereford. He was created viscount Llandaff in 1895. The family of Castell y Mynach in Pentyrch was founded by Sir David Mathew's brother, ROBERT MATHEW. They were conservative squires who obtained, by
MATTHEWS, ABRAHAM (1832 - 1899), minister (Congl.) and one of the pioneers of the Welsh settlement in Patagonia ministry to the first emigrants was their assistance in enclosing the land near the river bend where he established himself. He called his home Parc yr Esgob (the bishop's field), and he was known as esgob y Wladfa (the Bishop of the settlement). He saw the need for new blood and new spirit if the settlement in Patagonia was to survive. He went to Wales in January 1873, to U.S.A. in August, and to Wales
MAURICE family Clenennau, Glyn (Cywarch), Penmorfa Meredydd ab Ievan ap Robert, Gwydir, and (d) Ellen, wife of John Wynn ap Meredydd, Gwydir, sheriff of Caernarvonshire, 1544-5. The first wife of ELLIS AP MAURICE (died 1571, aged 78 - he is often named Elisa or Eliza Morris) was Catherine, daughter of Piers Stanley, who was sheriff of Merioneth from 1485 until 1509. Catherine became the mother of MAURICE AB ELLIS (died 18 October 1575 at the age of 58
MAURICE, WILLIAM (d. 1680), antiquary and collector of manuscripts copyists, and to spend his time copying and studying manuscripts. In these studies he regarded Robert Vaughan of Hengwrt as his Gamaliel. He worked much at Hengwrt and compiled a catalogue of the manuscripts in the collection. He himself acquired some important Welsh manuscripts, e.g. the ' White Book of Hergest,' which was lost in a fire at a bindery in Covent Garden in 1810, and the manuscript of the
McLUCAS, CLIFFORD (1945 - 2002), artist and theatre director to site, which subsequently became an influential concept in the field of theatre studies. In 1994 McLucas moved to Cardiff in order to become more engaged with the production aspects of the company which now had offices at Chapter Arts Centre. In 1995 his pioneering work for television was screened on both S4C and ITV Wales. The bilingual production, Y Pen Bas Y Pen Dwfn was shot in a swimming

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