Dictionary of Welsh Biography

LLOYD, JOHN MEIRION (1913 - 1998), missionary and author , Eirlys Ruth, Alun Meirion and Hywel John, and when they were old enough they were sent back to England for their education. He immediately saw the educational needs of the town of Aizawl and the leaders of the Mizo Church agreed with his vision. He established the first high school in Aizawl in 1946, which was taken over by the Government by 1951. He then became the first principal of a theological
LLOYD, JOHN MORGAN (1880 - 1960), musician Alun Hoddinott among them, were among his students.
LLYWELYN-WILLIAMS, ALUN (1913 - 1988), poet and literary critic Alun Llywelyn-Williams was born on 27 August 1913 in Cardiff, and brought up at 39 Penylan Road, Roath, and 33 Ninian Road, Roath Park where his family moved to live when he was eighteen months old. He was the youngest of three children of Dr David Llewelyn Williams (1870-1949), a Welsh Board of Health Medical Officer originally from Bwlchgwyn, Caerhun, Talybont, in the Conwy Valley, and his wife
LOVELAND, KENNETH (1915 - 1998), journalist and music critic Welsh composers - especially Daniel Jones, William Mathias and Alun Hoddinot. He also (probably with justification) claimed to have given the first press recognition to outstanding singers such as Geraint Evans, Gwyneth Jones and Margaret Price. Such advocacy might have been dismissed as the parochialism of a local reporter, but this never applied to Loveland, uprightly Home Counties to the core and
MEREDITH, JOHN ELLIS (1904 - 1981), minister (Presbyterian Church of Wales) and author years old, the family moved to Padeswood near Buckley in Flintshire, where his father, a railway man, had been transferred. He received his schooling in the primary school in Buckley and the Alun County School at Mold. At the end of the First World War the family again moved, to Gwyddelwern near Corwen where James Meredith had been appointed station master. J. E. Meredith became a pupil at Tandomen
MEREDUDD ap RHYS (fl. 1450-1485), gentleman, cleric, and poet prevented them from meeting more often and one in praise of spring which had been their ally. His descriptive poems are excellent - an amusing and witty example is that on the coracle. Another admirable cywydd was that which asked for a fishing-net - an instance of the 'begging poem' at its best. Meredudd was fond of fishing in the river Alun and because of his hobby would compare himself with Madog ab
MORGAN, DEWI (Dewi Teifi; 1877 - 1971), poet and journalist encouraging and guiding young poets and prose writers as an adjudicator in local and national eisteddfodau and editor of the poetry column of Y Faner. Among those indebted to him include D. Gwenallt Jones, T. Ifor Rees, Caradog Prichard, T. Glynne Davies, J. M. Edwards, Iorwerth C. Peate and Alun Llywelyn-Williams. Dewi Morgan died aged 93 at Bronglais hospital Aberystwyth 1 April 1971 and he was buried in
MORGAN, HYWEL RHODRI (1939 - 2017), politician Clapham Common. Downing Street drafted in Davies's successor as Secretary of State, Alun Michael - a reliable Blairite - to block Rhodri Morgan. Millbank's superior financial and political heft told: Morgan was defeated for a second time. Michael could not shake the perception that he was 'Blair's poodle'. This hurt Labour in the inaugural Assembly elections in 1999 - especially in its traditional
MORGAN, THOMAS JOHN (1907 - 1986), Welsh scholar and writer view of a civilised society and its standards. 'TJ''s love of and respect for the culture of that society - its music making, its eisteddfodau, its communal spirit especially - is clear. He described his upbringing in a radio talk published in 1971 in Y Llwybrau Gynt (ed. Alun Oldfield-Davies) and the subject of his inaugural lecture in Swansea in 1961 was 'Peasant Culture', later expanded and
MORRIS, Sir RHYS HOPKIN (1888 - 1956), politician, stipendiary magistrate, first director of the Welsh Region B.B.C. , Li Biaus descouneüs de Renaud de Beaujeu (1915) and Le bel inconnu (1929). She was chief external examiner for several county educational authorities. She died 13 July 1958. They had one daughter, Perrie, born 1923, who married Alun Williams the B.B.C. commentator in 1944.
MORTON, RICHARD ALAN (1899 - 1977), biochemist Alan Morton was born on 22 September 1899 in Garston, a suburb of Liverpool, the only son and younger child of John Morton, a train driver who was born in Wrexham, and his wife Ann (née Humphreys) of Nantgwynant who came to Liverpool as a housemaid. Though christened Alun, he was always known as Alan. The Welsh-speaking family were members at the Welsh Calvinistic Methodist Chapel in Garston and
OWEN, JOHN (John Owen of Tyn-llwyn; 1807 - 1876), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and writer on agriculture Born 1 August 1807 at Gwindy, Llecheiddior, Eifionydd, son of William Owen and his wife Margaret, who was a niece of Robert Jones (1745-1829) of Rhos-lan. He was an early and a wide reader, and as a youth wrote in Seren Gomer on behalf of Catholic Emancipation. He went to several schools, including that kept by Evan Richardson and a school at Chester where Glan Alun (Thomas Jones, 1811 - 1866

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