Dictionary of Welsh Biography

MORRIS, LEWIS (1760 - 1855), Calvinistic Methodist exhorter north Pembrokeshire (see Bowen family of Llwyn-gwair) to get a preacher's certificate to avoid being pressed for military service. In general, he preached only in his native county. His reminiscences, ' Adgofion Hen Bregethwr,' in Y Traethodydd, 1847, are interesting. He died 11 March 1855.
MORRIS, LEWIS (Llewelyn Ddu o Fôn; 1701 - 1765), poet and scholar , still living with his parents at Pentrerianell, he had a practice as land-surveyor, and was employed by the Meyrick family of Bodorgan, a connection which proved of great advantage to him and to his brothers. In 1729 he was appointed 'searcher' to the Customs at Beaumaris and Holyhead, still retaining his private practice during his tenure (till 1743) of that office. Through the influence of the
MORRIS, RICHARD (1703 - 1779), founder of the Cymmrodorion Society Wynn' (the 'Chief President' of the Cymmrodorion - see the article on the Wynn family); Richard Morris thus dreamed of a national library for Wales. The MSS. (including those of Lewis Morris) remained at the School till 1844, when they were very prudently transferred to the British Museum.
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
MORRIS, ROBERT DAVID (1871 - 1948), itinerant bookseller and author , Ffordd Sera Parri and Gŵr Betsan Huws, and a play, Y Clwyf, depicting the devastating effect of World War I upon a particular family. A large number of performances of his comedies were produced in all parts of Wales. He had a passion for reform in Wales. He was one of the leaders of the I.L.P. in his district. He reacted against the system which made Welsh a language of religion and chapel and
MORRIS, SILAS (1862 - 1923), principal of the Baptist College, Bangor Born 9 January 1862 at Dafen, Llanelly. The family moved to Pontardulais and the son was for some time employed at the Hendy tin-plate works. After he had started to preach he went to T. Richards's school at Aberavan and, in 1880, was admitted to Pontypool Academy. He won a scholarship to the University College at Bangor, the year it was opened and graduated B.A. (London) with honours in Greek
MORRIS, WILLIAM (1705 - 1763), botanist, antiquary, letter-writer during his lifetime. He married (1745) Jane, daughter and heiress of Robert Hughes of Llanfugail (J. E. Griffith, Pedigrees, 41); she died 1 May 1750, and Morris remained a widower. A son and a daughter survived him. The (elder) son, ROBERT MORRIS, born 9 March 1746, married Jane Parry, a widow, of the Bulkeley of Brynddu family (J. E. Griffith, op. cit., 33), sold his share of the Llanfugail estate
MORRIS-JONES, Sir JOHN (MORRIS) (1864 - 1929), scholar, poet, and critic Born 17 October 1864 at Trefor, Llandrygarn, Anglesey. In 1868 his family moved to Llanfair-pwll, where he received his elementary education, proceeding in 1876 to Friars School, Bangor. When the headmaster, Daniel Lewis Lloyd was appointed to Christ College, Brecon, in 1879, Morris-Jones accompanied him. He matriculated from Jesus College, Oxford, as a scholar, in 1883, and graduated with
MORTIMER family Wigmore, The Mortimer family came over to England from Normandy as part of the invading army of William the Conqueror, and c. 1075, one of the family, RALPH de MORTIMER, was granted certain lands in Shropshire and Herefordshire, with the castle and township of Wigmore in the latter county as focal point. It was from this beginning that the family eventually grew to be a dominant factor in Welsh border
MORTIMER, ROGER de (1256? - 1326), lord of Chirk diocese of S. Davids, on most occasions in his own hands, but once in conjunction with Robert de Malleye. Between 1307 and 1320 his own strength, allied to that of his nephew Roger of Wigmore, made the family one of the strongest in the country. In 1321, uncle and nephew sided with the earl of Hereford in his quarrel with Hugh le Despenser concerning the acquisitions of Gower. They conducted a
MORTIMER, ROGER de (4th earl of March, 4th earl of Ulster), (1374 - 1398) Born at Usk 11 April 1374, son of Edmund de Mortimer (see Mortimer family) and Philippa, daughter of Lionel duke of Clarence (second son of king Edward III - the marriage is important, as the basis of the 'Yorkist' claim to precedence over the 'Lancaster' house, descended from Edward's third son). Roger's parents died when he was but a boy, so that his estates came under prolonged and careful
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

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