Dictionary of Welsh Biography

MATHIAS family Llwyngwaren, Llwyn Gwaring, Llangwaren, Lamphey The original surname of this family was ' Cole,' and later ' Young '; and its original habitat was Clastir (wrongly, ' Glastir') near Newport, Pembrokeshire (Fenton, Pembrokeshire, 1903 ed., 293) - Fenton incorrectly explains this as meaning 'green land'; the records show that it was 'church (clas) land.' ' Mathias ' was at first merely a recurring Christian name in the family (see W. Wales Hist
MORGAN(N), MAURICE (c. 1725 - 1802), Shakespearian commentator and political writer was descended from the ancient family of Morgan of Blaenbylan in the parish of Clydey, Pembrokeshire, who traced his ancestry, according to a pedigree by William Lewes the antiquarian (Bronwydd MS. 7170), to Llewelyn ap Gwilym of Cryngae (who was an uncle to Dafydd ap Gwilym) and Ednyfed Fychan. Fenton, who knew him and his brother William, states that he was brought up at the family home which
NASH, RICHARD (Beau Nash; 1674 - 1761) mother was a niece of John Poyer of Pembroke. His ancestry is not clear. A family bearing the surname Nash had been squires of Llangwm, Pembrokeshire (W. Wales Hist. Records, ii, 36-7; Laws, Little England, 445); Fenton describes them as newcomers to Pembrokeshire (possibly from Carmarthen town, where, in 1586, there was an important merchant named Richard Nash). It was a family in which the name
OWEN, HENRY (1844 - 1919), antiquary Pembrokeshire by R. Fenton, 1894; and A List of Printed Books treating of the County of Pembroke, 1897. With the assistance of scholars like Egerton Phillimore and Dr. E. A. Lewis, he edited Owen's Pembrokeshire, 1892 [-1936], and A Calendar of Public Records relating to Pembrokeshire, 1911-4. He collaborated with Edward Laws in the production of An Archaeological Survey of Pembrokeshire, 1896-1907 (Tenby
THOMAS, JOHN (Siôn Wyn o Eifion; 1786 - 1859), poet periodicals were lent him by the Gwynfryn family, and distinguished people like Fenton the historian and Shelley the poet used to visit him. Welsh books were lent him by Dafydd Ddu Eryri and others (Adgof uwch Anghof, 42), and we hear of him sending an awdl on the subject of Music for adjudication by Dafydd at the Caernarvon eisteddfod, 1821, but it arrived too late for inclusion with the others. As might
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM (1738 - 1817) Llandygái, antiquary, author, prominent official at Cae-braich-y-cafn quarry store of knowledge to inquirers like Richard Fenton, Sir Richard Colt Hoare, and the Irishman Hyde Hall who wrote Bangor MS. 908 (published in 1952 by the Caernarvonshire Historical Society as A Description of Caernarvonshire, and ed. by E. Gwynne Jones). He died on 17 July 1817. The love of letters in the family did not die out with him; his son, Robert, was an author himself and a friend of literary

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