Dictionary of Welsh Biography

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
MARQUAND, HILARY ADAIR (1901 - 1972), economist and Labour politician He was born on 24 December 1901 at 4 Marlborough Road, Cardiff, the elder son of Alfred Marquand, a native of Guernsey and a clerk in a coal exporting company, and Mary Adair his wife who was of Scottish descent. Some of the family were Cardiff shipowners. He was educated at Cardiff High School and, as the holder of a prestigious state scholarship, at University College, Cardiff. He graduated
MARSHAL family (earls of Pembroke), WILLIAM MARSHAL (I) (1146? - 1219), regent of England The first earl of Pembroke and Striguil of the Marshal line. He was the son of John Fitz Gilbert (John the Marshal) by his second wife, Sybil, sister of Patrick de Salisbury, 1st earl of Wiltshire. In 1189 king Richard gave him in marriage, Isabel, countess of Striguil and Pembroke, daughter of Richard de Clare (see Clare family), who brought
MASON, LILIAN JANE (1874 - 1953), actress several productions. On 9 April 1901 Lilian married Edmund Fawcett Kennedy, a theatrical manager at the Prince's Theatre, Manchester. The Kennedy family had lived in Pontypool when Lilian and Edmund were children. In 1903, their only child, Samuel Butler Kennedy, was born at Pontypool. Lilian's artistic leanings, however, were strong. In 1904 she decided to launch her own acting career and, in June of
MATHEW family Castell y Mynach, This family had held posts as stewards and seneschals during the 14th cent, for absent English lords. It was of the same stock as Lewis of Van, and derived according to 15th century pedigrees from Gwaethvoed of Ceredigion. Sir DAVID MATHEW (fl. 1428-84), the son of a supporter of Owain Glyn Dŵr, was a dependent of the Nevilles and a leading Yorkist. From Sir David and his wife Wenllian Herbert
MATHIAS family Llwyngwaren, Llwyn Gwaring, Llangwaren, Lamphey The original surname of this family was ' Cole,' and later ' Young '; and its original habitat was Clastir (wrongly, ' Glastir') near Newport, Pembrokeshire (Fenton, Pembrokeshire, 1903 ed., 293) - Fenton incorrectly explains this as meaning 'green land'; the records show that it was 'church (clas) land.' ' Mathias ' was at first merely a recurring Christian name in the family (see W. Wales Hist
MATTAN, MAHMOOD HUSSEIN (1923 - 1952), seaman and victim of injustice interviewed a number of local men including Mattan. Two hours after the murder had taken place, detectives visited his lodgings, questioned him but ultimately found no evidence that would place him at the scene of the crime. Almost a week after the murder, with no arrests and the investigation stalling, the victim's family offered a reward of £200 (equivalent to over £7,000 as of 2023). This was to prove
MATTHEWS, ABRAHAM (1832 - 1899), minister (Congl.) and one of the pioneers of the Welsh settlement in Patagonia for another year and at that critical hour saved the great venture from disintegrating. By that time he was the chief (if not the only) public figure there. He farmed the land to support his family; but he strove voluntarily for years to minister the churches in the Camwy valley, particularly those at Trerawson, Glyn Du, Moriah and Tair Helygen. It is said that the only stipend he received for his
MATTHEWS, DANIEL HUGH (1936 - 2020), Baptist minister and college principal Hugh Matthews was born on 25 October 1936 at 6 Heol Bryn-gelli, Treboeth, Swansea, the second of two sons of Daniel Eustis Matthews (d. 1975), coal miner and road worker, and his wife Annie Ada (née Phillips, d. 1994). His elder brother, Thomas Kenneth, was born in 1930. The family church was Caersalem Newydd, whose minister, the Revd W. H. Rowlands, had a formative influence on Hugh as a young
MATTHEWS, JOHN HOBSON (Mab Cernyw; 1858 - 1914), Roman Catholic historian, archivist and solicitor his examination of the family muniments of the Vaughans of Courtfield, a Herefordshire Catholic family (the muniments are now in N.L.W.). At the time of his death he was co-operating in the work of continuing Duncombe's History of Herefordshire. He married, 1892, Alice Mary Gwyn-Hughes; they had four sons and two daughters. He died at Ealing, 30 January 1914. NLW MS 2851E-2853E contain some typical
MAURICE family Clenennau, Glyn (Cywarch), Penmorfa The careers of Sir William Maurice and colonel Sir John Owen are dealt with separately; here only a very general survey of the family is attempted. Sir John Wynn says in his The history of the Gwydir family (and it should be remembered that Sir John's ancestors came from Eifionydd, which is the south-eastern part of Caernarvonshire): 'You are to understand that in Evioneth there were two sects or
MAURICE, HENRY (1634 - 1682), Independent minister Son of Griffith Morris of Methlan, parish of Aberdaron, having close family relations with the Wynn family of Boduan and Edward family of Nanhoron. He was educated at Jesus College, Oxford. Possibly he was the Henry Morris who headed the agitation in 1656 for moving Botwnnog school to Pwllheli, but without any doubt the 'curate' sanctioned by the Triers in 1658 for pastoral work in Llannor and

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