Dictionary of Welsh Biography

MORGAN ELFAEL (fl. c. 1528-1541), poet A number of his poems remain in manuscript including some written to members of South Wales landed families, Sir John Mathew of Radur (Radyr), Sioned, the daughter of Sir Thomas Philipps of Picton castle, and Lewys Gwynn of Tref Esgob. A number of his poems to Gruffudd Dwn (of Ystrad Merthyr) and his family are also found, two of them being in holograph (Llanstephan MS 40 (73, 74)). He was buried
MORGAN FYCHAN (d. 1288), lord of the Welsh barony of Avan Wallia (or Nedd-Afan) in the honour of Glamorgan son of Morgan Gam. Like his father he was a supporter of the North Wales princes. He may for a time have been deprived of Avan, for in 1282 he is described merely as lord of a half commote in Baglan. His son, LLEISION (died 1328), the first of the family to adopt the surname ' de Avene,' was certainly lord of Avan, being succeeded there in turn by his son and grandson, John and Thomas de Avene
MORGAN, Sir CHARLES (1575? - 1643?), soldier nobleman Philip de Marnix de Ste. Aldegonde (died 1598), William the Silent's coadjutor in the Netherlands Revolt. Their only child, ANN MORGAN (died 1687), came home and married (1) Sir Lewis Morgan of Rhiwpera, Monmouth (Member of Parliament for Cardiff, 1628, knighted 1629, died 1635), and (2) Walter Strickland, who became a Member of Cromwell's Council of State and ' Other House,' and (3) John
MORGAN, CLIFFORD (Cliff) ISAAC (1930 - 2013), rugby player, sports writer and broadcaster, media executive had provided Morgan with the opportunity to deliver the greatest ever passage of rugby union commentary: "Almost on the halfway line, Kirkpatrick, to Williams, this is great stuff, Phil Bennett covering. Chased by Alistair Scown, brilliant, oh that's brilliant! John Williams, Bryan Williams. Pullin, John Dawes - great dummy! David, Tom David - the halfway line - brilliant by Quinnell! This is Gareth
MORGAN, DAVID (1779 - 1858), Independent minister and historian where he joined John Jones, the shopkeeper, one of the pillars of the Independent church, at whose home on the very first night he met the Rev. John Roberts of Llanbryn-mair (1767 - 1834). Many years later, as a very old man, he used to say that the personality of that good man had changed the course of his life. He did not take kindly to a tradesman's life and within six months had returned home to
MORGAN, DAVID EIRWYN (1918 - 1982), college principal and minister (B) Society. Bedydd[:] Cred ac Arfer [Baptism: Belief and Practice] (1973) is an extended version of his Pantyfedwen Lecture, delivered in 1969. With John Hughes, Dolgellau, as music editor, he published a bilingual hymnal for young people entitled Mawl yr Ifanc. As well as editing the hymnal for the Baptist Union of Wales, he contributed thirteen translations of hymns. Two of these, together with a third
MORGAN, DAVID JENKINS (1884 - 1949), teacher and agricultural officer during the first half of the twentieth century. They were written in a lively style. A selection of these essays was published in Pant a bryn (1953). He married 7 July 1915, Annie, daughter of John and Jane Jones, Tŷ-llwyd, Brynmawr (originally from Swyddffynnon). He died suddenly on 18 May 1949 at Charing Cross Hospital, London. His body was cremated at Golders Green and his ashes were returned to
MORGAN, DEWI (Dewi Teifi; 1877 - 1971), poet and journalist belonged to a cultured family and as a young man he was involved in the many educational and cultural activities associated with Capel y Garn, Bow Street. It was his headmaster at Ysgol Rhydypennau, John Evans, who awoke in him an interest in literature. He became an avid reader, learnt the cynganeddion and started to compete in local and regional eisteddfodau, winning his first chair at the age of
MORGAN, DYFNALLT (1917 - 1994), poet, literary critic and translator , Cledwyn Hughes and others in South Road. He studied Welsh, English, French and Music, graduating with honours in Welsh in 1938, and English in 1939. He remained at the college for a further year to train as a teacher. The Second World War interrupted any plans to begin a career in education. As a Christian of strong convictions raised in the Indpendent chapel in Gwernllwyn, Dowlais, he decided to take a
MORGAN, EDWARD (1783 - 1869), Evangelical cleric and author of David, a translation of some of Williams's verse. He also published Village Sermons (1828), Letters of the Rev. Griffith Jones (1832); a Life of Henry Philips of Coychurch (n.d., but before 1833); Letters, Essays [etc.] of … John Elias (1847); Life and Times of Howel Harris (1852); Brief Memoir of the late Rev. W. Howels (1854); a biography of Richard Bassett (1860); and a biography of his own
MORGAN, ELAINE NEVILLE (1920 - 2013), screenwriter, journalist, and author generation of young writers and poets, notably Sidney Keyes (1922-1943), Drummond Allison (1921-1943) and John Heath-Stubbs (1918-2006), and was known to Kingsley Amis (1922-1995) and Philip Larkin (1922-1985). On graduation from Oxford in 1942, she began working for the Workers' Educational Association (WEA) as a tutor-organizer in Norfolk. During the 1943 summer vacation, she attended a Beds for
MORGAN, ELENA PUW (1900 - 1973), novelist, author of fiction and short stories for children prevented her from going on to university, a fact she regretted and which may have contributed to her relative lack of confidence in her own literary abilities. In 1931 she married John Morgan, a local tailor and outfitter, who also had strong literary and political interests. They had a daughter, Catrin, born in 1933. Their household in Annedd Wen, Corwen, was a centre of cultural activity and they had

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