Dictionary of Welsh Biography

McLUCAS, CLIFFORD (1945 - 2002), artist and theatre director in 1968 and continued to work on architectural projects. Between 1972-74 he worked intermittently as a forester apprenticing himself to a master carpenter and became a skilled and inventive craftsman. In 1974 he moved to Tre-groes, Ceredigion with his partner and young family. They had three sons, Jesse, Joseph and John. He worked as a carpenter on self-employed projects and began to learn Welsh
MEADOWS, JOSEPH KENNY (1790 - 1874), draughtsman christened at S. Mary's, Cardigan, 1 November 1790, second son of James Meadows. His career is not recorded until 1823 when he was responsible for some of the illustrations in The Mirror of the Stage, and the lithographs used in Planché's Costume of Shakespere's Historical Tragedy of King John. He achieved popularity with The Heads of the People or Portraits of the English, 1838-40, to which W. M
MERCER, JOHN (1893 - 1987), cricketer
MEREDITH, BENJAMIN (1700 - 1749), Baptist minister a place near the chapel and later, when his health deteriorated, in his own home. His translation into Welsh of John Bunyan's Jerusalem Sinner Saved was published in 1721, with a second edition in 1765. He died in December 1749.
MEREDITH, Sir JOHN (1714 - 1780), lawyer
MEREDITH, JOHN ELLIS (1904 - 1981), minister (Presbyterian Church of Wales) and author in philosophy in 1928 and then proceeded to study theology at Oxford University in 1928, where he was a member of Jesus College, sharing rooms with T. Rowland Hughes, who became a lifelong friend. J. E. Meredith served as Secretary of the Dafydd ap Gwilym Society and he made an important contribution to the Welsh life of the University and the city. He graduated in 1930 with Distinction and took
MEREDITH, RICHARD (d. 1597), bishop of Leighlin, Ireland Born in Denbighshire, son, it is said, of one Robert Meredith ap Gronw and Margaret, daughter of William John ap Gronw. It is possible that he was of the same stock as the Merediths of Stansty. He was probably the Richard Meredith who graduated B.A. at Jesus College, 4 March 1572/3, but it is quite certain that he became M.A. of the same college in 1575. He became chaplain to Sir John Perrot
MEURIG (fl. 1210), poet, and treasurer of Llandaff The date of his flourishing seems to be fixed by a passage in Giraldus Cambrensis's De Principis Instructione (dist. iii, cap. 28), in which a soldier-poet long dead is said to have appeared in a vision to Meurig and challenged him to complete a verse which foretold the interdict declared on England in the reign of king John. Giraldus says that Meurig (Mauricius) was a Glamorgan man and was a
MEYRICK family Hascard, Fleet, Bush, Wigmore, swordsmen who had served with him abroad, and his own connections in Radnorshire (where he had married c. 1584, the daughter of Ieuan Lewis of Gladestry, widow of John Gwynn of Llanelwedd, who brought him both estates), and in Carmarthenshire (where his daughter Margaret was the wife of Sir John Vaughan of Golden Grove, later 1st earl of Carbery, as well as his brother Francis (below)). He was responsible
MEYRICK family Bodorgan, noting here that it was he who engaged Lewis Morris to measure the Bodorgan estate. Owen Meyrick was succeeded by his son, OWEN MEYRICK II (1705 - 1770), who married a wealthy heiress, the daughter of John Putland of London; and by his grand-son, OWEN PUTLAND MEYRICK (1752 - 1825), who was equally fortunate in his marriage - to Clara, daughter and heiress of Richard Garth of Morden, Surrey. The estate
MEYRICK, EDMUND (1636 - 1712), cleric and benefactor of education One of the Meyrick family of Ucheldre, Gwyddelwern, Meironnydd (a cadet branch of the Meyrick family of Bodorgan - see J. E. Griffith, Pedigrees, 308), but born at Garthlwyd, Llandderfel, the house of his father's first wife, and christened at Llandderfel, 11 June 1636; his mother was Jonet, daughter of John Vaughan of Cefnbodig, Llanycil who was Member of Parliament for Merioneth 1654-5 and died
MEYRICK, Sir SAMUEL RUSH (1783 - 1848), antiquary Born 28 August 1783, son of John Meyrick, of Westminster and Fulham, and Hannah, daughter and co-heiress of Samuel Rush. He was educated at Queen's College, Oxford (B.A. 1804, M.A. and B.C.L. 1810, D.C.L. 1811). He practised for many years as an advocate in the ecclesiastical and admiralty courts, living during this time in London, where he accumulated a magnificent collection of armour, a

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