Dictionary of Welsh Biography

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
MARSH, RICHARD (1710? - 1792), bookseller and printer Richard Marsh married, 12 February 1746-7, Mary Hurst, Wrexham; the bridegroom is described in the parish register as writing master. In 1753 he became a bookseller; in 1756-7 he was one of the churchwardens of Wrexham. When he started printing is not definitely known; Ifano Jones (Hist. of Printing and Printers in Wales) disputes the accuracy of the dates assigned to some of his publications by
MARSHAL family (earls of Pembroke), honour of Carmarthen. He kept Morgan ap Hywel out of his ancestral seat at Caerleon and in 1236 for a time seized his castle of Machen. He was a benefactor of the abbey of Tintern and the leper's hospital of S. Mary Magdalene of Little Haverford. WALTER MARSHAL (died 24 November 1245) He was sent by his brother, earl Gilbert, to fortify Cardigan in 1240; he also took for his brother lands appurtenant
MARY FITT - see FREEMAN, KATHLEEN
MATTAN, MAHMOOD HUSSEIN (1923 - 1952), seaman and victim of injustice seventeen-year-old Laura Williams from the Rhondda Valley who was working in a paper factory in Cardiff, and they married in 1947. Laura described her husband as a good, kind man and a provider. Although their marriage was a happy one, due to it being an interracial union they faced racial hostilities in the local area and lived apart on the same street whilst raising their three children: David Mattan (b
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
MATTHEWS, MARMADUKE (1606 - 1683?), ejected minister Born at Swansea, 1606, the son of Matthew Johnes of Nydfywch, Llangyfelach, and Mary his wife. He matriculated from All Souls College, Oxford, 20 February 1623/4 and graduated B.A. 25 February 1624/5 and M.A. 5 July 1627. (Foster, Alumni Oxonienses). In 1636 he was vicar of Penmain, Gower, and showed Puritan tendencies displeasing to the bishop of S. Davids. Proceedings were begun against him in
MATTHEWS, NORMAN GREGORY (1904 - 1964), chancellor Chancellor in 1952. He married in 1953 Mary Laurella, eldest daughter of Walter Rees and Kathleen Olga Thomas, Whitchurch, Cardiff. They were fellow-students at Oxford. He obtained the living of St. Fagans in 1953, died there 6 August 1964 and was buried in Llandaff Cathedral graveyard. He was a member of the Liturgical Commission of the Church in Wales from its inception, and a member of the Central
MAURICE family Clenennau, Glyn (Cywarch), Penmorfa ). By his second wife, Jonet, daughter of Sir James Owen, Pentre Evan, Pembrokeshire, Ellis ap Maurice was the father of (a) James Maurice (living in 1595), rector of Llandwrog, Caernarfonshire, and Llanfwrog, Denbighshire, and chancellor of Peterborough; (b) a daughter, Catherine, who married Robert Wynn ap John, Glyn (Cywarch), Merioneth, and (c) Mary, the wife of Morris ap Robert, Llangedwyn. The
MAURICE, HENRY (1634 - 1682), Independent minister preached in several unlicensed houses; towards the end of the same month he undertook the famous journey to his native Llŷn, preaching again in unlicensed places, addressing multitudes in churchyards, and disappointed at not being allowed to enter the pulpits of the parish churches themselves. Naturally he visited his 'cousin' John Williams of Llangian (1627 - 1673) and Richard Edwards (died 1704), the
MAURICE, HUGH (1775 - 1825), skinner, and transcriber of Welsh manuscripts of the Gwyneddigion Society. Practising the trade of a skinner, he settled in Tooley Street. On the Gwyneddigion Society's annual dinner day in 1800 he married, at S. Olave's, Tooley Street, without her father's knowledge, Elizabeth Mary Louisa, daughter of Rowland Jones of Greenwich, a native of Llan-ym-Mawddwy and a past president of the Society. He himself was vice-president for that year, and
MAURICE, MATHIAS (1684 - 1738), Independent minister and writer modern question affirmed and approved (1739). Maurice's works are listed in Llyfryddiaeth y Cymry, under 1711, 1720, 1727, 1733, 1734, 1759. The most popular of his original writings was Social Religion Exemplify'd, 1759, which had gone through seven editions by 1860. An abridgement of it, by Dr. Edward Williams (1750 - 1813), was translated into Welsh in 1797 by Benjamin Evans of Dre-wen, and the

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