Dictionary of Welsh Biography

MORGAN, WILLIAM (1750 - 1833), actuary and scientist beliefs which 'on all the great points' concurred with Price's philosophy and Unitarian creed. He admits rather coyly 'some doubts' but does not give any details. Through Price, Morgan met a number of the leading intellectuals of the day including Joseph Priestley, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine, John Howard and John Horne Tooke, and he shared many of their radical views. He was sympathetic to the
MORRIS, CAREY (1882 - 1968), artist ceremonies, and wrote extensively on the topic. He published articles on art, such as ' Personality as a force in art ' and ' Art and religion in Wales '. He worked on landscapes and portraits throughout Wales, and his patrons include some aristocratic families. One of his close friends was Sir Joseph Bradney, the historian of Monmouthshire. He illustrated books, particularly the children's books which his
MORRIS, Sir DANIEL (1844 - 1933), botanist
MORRIS, JAMES (1853 - 1914), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and author interested in the history of his connexion in Carmarthenshire, and produced four books on that subject: Cofiant Dafi Dafis, Rhydcymerau (1907), Cofiant Thomas Jones, Conwyl (1899), Efengylwyr Seion (1905 -biographical sketches), and Hanes Methodistiaeth Sir Gaerfyrddin (1911). They are somewhat uncritical, but interesting and very useful.
MORRIS, Sir JOHN (1745 - 1819), industrialist - see MORRIS,ROBERT
MORRIS, JOHN WILLIAM (1896 - 1979), lawyer and judge was admitted to the Inner Temple, and in 1920 he obtained an LLB degree and was elected Joseph Hodges Choate Fellow to spend a year at Harvard University. In November 1921, he was called to the bar by the Inn and joined the Northern Circuit. In 1935 he was made King's Counsel, and thereafter he practised law mainly in London. In the first half of the 1920s, Morris was flirting with politics. Twice
MORRIS, Sir LEWIS (1833 - 1907), poet and educationist
MORRIS, LEWIS (Llewelyn Ddu o Fôn; 1701 - 1765), poet and scholar , who was the father of the poet Sir Lewis Morris. In 1772, Anne Morris became the second wife of William Jones of Gwynfryn, Llangynfelyn, Cardiganshire, from whose first marriage was descended the bishop and antiquary William Basil Jones. She died in 1785.
MORRIS, PERCY (1893 - 1967), politician and trade unionist , 1937-43 and as its president, 1943-53, and from 1941 until 1945 he was the Deputy Regional Commissioner for Civil Defence (Wales Region). During World War II he acted as president of the Swansea Labour Association. Percy Morris stood unsuccessfully as the Labour candidate against Sir Lewis Jones in the Swansea West division in the 1935 general election. He was elected M.P. (Lab.) for the same
MORRIS, Sir RHYS HOPKIN (1888 - 1956), politician, stipendiary magistrate, first director of the Welsh Region B.B.C.
MORRIS, RICHARD (1703 - 1779), founder of the Cymmrodorion Society Welsh School (Gray's Inn Road), 'for the benefit of the air.' But it was 'within the Tower' that he died in December 1779; he was buried with his third wife and their children in S. George's-in-the-East; the will was proved on 1 January 1780. All his books and MSS. were left to the Welsh School, 'in hopes that they will be accompanied with the manuscripts of… my honoured friend Sir Watkin Williams
MORRIS, ROBERT (d. 1768), industrialist collieries. Morris lived at Clasemont, between Llangyfelach and the Tawe river. Soon after his death, his second son (Sir) JOHN MORRIS (1745 - 1819), born 15 July 1745, took a step which put the family name literally 'on the map.' It is not perfectly clear whether it was he or his father who built the ' castellated mansion of collegiate appearance ' (Walter Davies, General View of the Agriculture. … of

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