Dictionary of Welsh Biography

LOVE, CHRISTOPHER (1618 - 1651), Presbyterian minister view. First, he was family chaplain to sheriff Warner in London; then he became lecturer at S. Ann's, Aldersgate. He tried unsuccessfully to get Presbyterian ordination in Scotland. He returned to England in 1641, and was imprisoned at Newcastle for attacking the Book of Common Prayer. After being removed to London he was tried at the King's Bench and found innocent. In the Civil War he was chaplain
MACDONALD, GORDON (first Baron MACDONALD of GWAENYSGOR), (1888 - 1966), politician Born 27 May 1888 at Gwaenysgor, Prestatyn, Flintshire, son of Thomas Macdonald and Ellen (née Hughes), but the family soon moved to Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancashire, where he was brought up in a Welsh -speaking home. He left S. Luke's Elementary School, Stubshaw Cross, at the age of 13 and worked as a miner until the beginning of World War I, apart from a period as a student at Ruskin College
MACKWORTH, CECILY JOAN (1911 - 2006), writer, poet, journalist and traveller Cecily Mackworth was born in the Mardy (Maerdy) within the parish of Llantilio Pertholey (Llandeilo Bertholau) near Abergavenny, Monmouthshire on 15 August 1911, the eldest child of Francis Julian Audley Mackworth (1876-1914) and his wife Dorothy Conran (née Lascelles, 1883-1976). Her father was from an old south Walian family of distinguished soldiers. He served in the Royal Field Artillery and
MACLEAN, Sir EWEN JOHN (1865 - 1953), first professor of obstetrics and gynaecology at the Welsh National School of Medicine Ewen Maclean was born 15 October 1865 in the Scottish Highlands, the second son of John Maclean of Tiree, a master cordwainer (shoemaker) and Agnes Macmillan, a habitual speaker of Gaelic. While the boys were still young the family moved to south Wales where Ewen and his older brother Donald (later to become a prominent Liberal politician) attended Haverfordwest and Carmarthen Grammar Schools
MADRYN family Madryn, Llŷn It is a great mistake to think that it was the family of Parry of Madryn who were the original holders of this estate; the Parry s did not arrive till the marriage of the third Love Parry of Cefnllanfair with Sidney Lewis in 1763; and neither of the two had the slightest connection with the old family. The Madryns were grounded deeply in the parishes of Llandudwen and Ceidio for generations, with
MALO (fl. 6th century), saint Migne, correspond fairly closely in subject-matter to the above. The long but untrustworthy 'Life' composed by Bili, clerk of Alet, c. 870, and printed by Lot, differs substantially, except for its early chapters, from the others. Malo was the son of Dervel, sister of Amwn Ddu, and therefore cousin to S. Samson. The name of Malo's father is not given. The home of the family was near Llancarfan
MANSEL family Oxwich, Penrice, Margam abbey, The history of the Mansel family is fairly well documented; the Penrice and Margam abbey muniments in the National Library of Wales extend to several thousand documents. A History of Margam Abbey, by Walter de Gray Birch (of the British Museum), was published in 1897. De Gray Birch also prepared the Descriptive Catalogue of the Penrice and Margam Abbey Manuscripts (privately printed, six volumes
MANSEL, Sir ROBERT (1573 - 1656), admiral Fourth (or sixth?) son of Sir Edward Mansel (died 1585), of Penrice, Oxwich, and Margam, by his wife, lady Jane Somerset, daughter of Henry, 2nd earl of Worcester. His career, which is described in the D.N.B., touches the naval history of England much more closely than it did Wales but it is of interest to recall that, by the marriage of his nephew, Sir Lewis Mansel, there was a family connection
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
MARDY-JONES, THOMAS ISAAC (1879 - 1970), economist and politician Born in 1879, the son of Thomas Isaac and Gwen Jones, Brynaman, Carmarthenshire. His father and both his grandfathers were killed in coal-mining accidents. He received his early education at Ferndale board school, and began working in a local coal mine at 12 years of age. His wages had to support a family of six. He took advantage of the opportunity to study political and economic history at
MAREDUDD ap CYNAN ab OWAIN GWYNEDD (d. 1212), lord of Eifionydd, part of Ardudwy, and Merioneth and co-founder of the Cistercian house of Cymmer Gruffydd died in 1200, Maredudd acquired Llŷn, of which he was deprived in 1201 for suspected treachery against Llywelyn. In 1202 his other territories were taken from him, but Merioneth at least was later restored to his family - see Llywelyn Fawr and Llywelyn Fychan. He was co-founder in 1198 or 1199 of the Cistercian house of Cymmer. His elegy was sung by 'Prydydd y Moch' (Llywarch ap Llywelyn).
MARGED vch IFAN (MARGED vch IFAN (Margaret Evans; 1696 - 1801?), 'character' carpenter and built her own boats; she was a smith, and shod her own horses; and she was a shoemaker. At 70, she could throw any other wrestler. Pennant ends with: 'finally, she gave her hand to the most effeminate of her admirers.' W. J. Gruffydd (Hen Atgofion, 88), on traditional evidence in his family, states that the bridegroom was one Richard Morris, and that Margaret had given him two fearful

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