Dictionary of Welsh Biography

MAURICE, WILLIAM (d. 1680), antiquary and collector of manuscripts possession or had been written by or for him.He was twice married (1), to Lettice, daughter of Roger Kynaston, Ruabon, by the daughter and heiress of Roger Eyton of Cefn y Carneddau; by her he had three sons who died young, and two daughters - Ann, wife of David Williams of Glan Alaw, brother of (Sir) William Williams (1634 - 1700), Speaker of the House of Commons, and Lettice, wife of Roger, son of Thomas
McLUCAS, CLIFFORD (1945 - 2002), artist and theatre director encouraged and tutored by local primary school teacher Emyr Hywel. He became part of a group of theatre makers centered around the home of Mary Lloyd Jones at Aberbanc, putting on plays such as Liz Whittaker's The White Tower. He also began to investigate the performative aspects of the structures he was making at places like Pigeonsford in Llangrannog. This interest led him to seek collaborations with
MERCER, JOHN (1893 - 1987), cricketer Jack Mercer was born on 22 April, 1893 at Southwick, Sussex, the second of six children of Walter Ernest Mercer, farrier, and his wife Mary. He married (1) Santa Lorenza Green in 1919, separated in 1932; (2) Kathrine (Kay) Kemish in 1973. He joined the Sussex County Cricket Club as a swing bowler in 1913, having played club cricket for Southwick. He left the following year and travelled across
MEREDITH, JOHN ELLIS (1904 - 1981), minister (Presbyterian Church of Wales) and author aspect of the life of the town and the educational institutions. He was a loyal member of the local Free Church Council, acting as its President and served six times as the Mayor's Chaplain. He served as the Chairman of the local Committee for the United Theological College, giving loyal support to the Principal W. R. Williams (a member of his church) and Principal S. Ifor Enoch. He served as Chairman
MEREDUDD ap RHYS (fl. 1450-1485), gentleman, cleric, and poet century on the classical metres and cynghanedd. No fewer than twenty-one cywyddau which can be attributed with certainty to him are to be found in various MSS. - these are poems of love and nature, private poems and social poems, prophetic poems, and poems in adoration of God and the Virgin Mary. Only some five have ever been printed. He had a lively imagination and his love poems are as fanciful as
MEYRICK family Bodorgan, became canon and chancellor of S. Davids and while there played a leading part in the fierce dispute between the chapter and the bishop, Robert Ferrar, concerning the income of the cathedral. When Mary Tudor came to the throne he was turned out of his canonry at S. Davids but, before long, the wheel of fortune turned once more and he was appointed bishop of Bangor in succession to William Glynn, 21
MEYRICK family Hascard, Fleet, Bush, Wigmore, . He followed Essex to Portugal (1589) and Normandy (1591), and on the death, in 1595, of his kinsman Sir Roger Williams - hitherto Essex's right-hand man - he became all-powerful with the earl, to whom his complete devotion was proverbial, and at whose suit the queen gave him extensive lands, including Wigmore castle, which became his principal seat. Essex knighted him (as Sir William or Gellian) on
MEYRICK, Sir SAMUEL RUSH (1783 - 1848), antiquary subject on which he was consulted by the authorities of the Tower of London and by king George IV - for details see the article in D.N.B. He married, 3 October 1803, Mary, daughter and co-heiress of James Parry, Llwyn Hywel, Cardiganshire. In 1809 (and 1810) was published, in quarto, his History and Antiquities of the County of Cardigan, which was considered then - and many such county histories were
MICHAELIONES, THOMAS (1880 - 1960), priest and owner of a gold mine smallholding which he bought in the Mawddach valley. He owned the Graigwen Gold Fields from c. 1938 until their closure in 1953. His offer to provide gold for Princess Elizabeth's wedding ring in 1947 was accepted. He changed his name when he married (1), in 1916, Janet Chadwick (died 1940). They had three daughters and a son. He married (2) Constance Mary Weighill in 1942 and they had a daughter. He died 24
MILLS, EDWARD (1802 - 1865), popularizer of astronomy Born in 1802, son of Edward and Mary Mills of Llanidloes, Montgomeryshire, and grandson of Henry Mills. He constructed an orrery and travelled all over Wales with it, lecturing on astronomy. In 1850 he published Y Darluniadur Anianyddol, a book on astronomy and geography, illustrated with woodcuts made by himself and his son. He died at Denbigh in 1865.
MORGAN family Tredegar Park, Trevor Williams of Llangibby, Thomas Morgan was elected in April 1640 to represent Monmouthshire in the Short Parliament (see Tredegar Papers, 59/9. W. R. Williams states incorrectly that the person elected was William Morgan). At the outbreak of the Civil War he was a supporter of the king, but after the battle of Naseby he and his son-in-law, Sir Trevor Williams, were accused of being among the
MORGAN FYCHAN (d. 1288), lord of the Welsh barony of Avan Wallia (or Nedd-Afan) in the honour of Glamorgan . Sometime after 1350, Avan passed into the hands of the chief-lord, probably as a result of an exchange of lands effected by Jane, daughter and heiress of Thomas, and wife of William Blount. The younger son of Morgan Fychan, Rhys, who succeeded to his father's lands in Baglan, was, however, the ancestor of several well-known Glamorganshire families including the Mackworth family and the Williams family of

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