Dictionary of Welsh Biography

MARSHAL family (earls of Pembroke), WILLIAM MARSHAL (I) (1146? - 1219), regent of England The first earl of Pembroke and Striguil of the Marshal line. He was the son of John Fitz Gilbert (John the Marshal) by his second wife, Sybil, sister of Patrick de Salisbury, 1st earl of Wiltshire. In 1189 king Richard gave him in marriage, Isabel, countess of Striguil and Pembroke, daughter of Richard de Clare (see Clare family), who brought
MORGAN (fl. 1294), rebel Gilbert de Clare. He has also been described in one contemporary chronicle as Rhys ap Morgan, which suggests some confusion with Rhys, the younger son of Morgan Fychan ap Morgan Gam. Morgan submitted to the king in July 1295, and obtained the royal clemency. His daughter, Angharad, was an ancestress of the Morgan family of Tredegar family. See Morgan ap Hywel for Maredudd.
MORGAN ap CARADOG ap IESTYN (d. c. 1208), lord of the Welsh barony of Avan Wallia (or Nedd-Avan) in the honour of Glamorgan Iestyn came the lordship of Miskin - his son, HYWEL, had to surrender it to the Clare family c. 1245. CADWALLON ap Caradog held the lordship of Glynrhondda - Cadwallon's grandson, OWAIN GRYCH (AP MORGAN), was its last Welsh lord, for before 1295 the Clare family had absorbed this lordship as well. According to Giraldus (Itin., i, cap. 7), this Cadwallon was killed by his brother OWAIN, who died soon
MORGAN ap HYWEL (fl. 1210-1248), Welsh lord of Gwynllwg or Caerleon , Morgan died, a little before 15 March 1248, still deprived of Caerleon. He was followed by his grandson, MERDUDD (son of his daughter Gwerful), who died in 1270 - see the article Morgan (fl. 1294-5). The lordship, like other Clare lands in Gwent, came into the hands of Elizabeth, youngest daughter of the Gilbert de Clare who fell in 1314, and so eventually into those of the Mortimer family.
MORGAN GAM (d. 1241), lord of the Welsh barony of Avan Wallia (or Nedd-Afan) in the honour of Glamorgan son of Morgan ap Caradog ap Iestyn, probably by Gwenllian, daughter of Ifor Bach. He succeeded his elder brother, Lleision, c. 1213, and, reverting to his father's policy of alliance with the Welsh princes, well served the interests of Llywelyn ap Iorwerth by harassing the Clare lords of Glamorgan. He married, according to the pedigrees, (1) Janet, daughter of Elidyr Ddu, (2) Ellen, daughter of
RHYS ap GRUFFYDD (Yr Arglwydd Rhys, The lord Rhys), (1132 - 1197), lord of Deheubarth Deheubarth reconstituted with the expulsion of the Clare s from Ceredigion and the Clifford s from Cantref Bychan and Llandovery, and to this dominion Rhys succeeded as sole ruler in 1155 on the death of Maredudd, Cadell having been permanently incapacitated four years earlier. He assumed the mantle of the old kings of Deheubarth at a moment when the political situation in England had been transformed by
ROBERT (fl. 1099-1147), earl of Gloucester William's children, the son, ROBERT, predeceased him in 1166. The eldest daughter, ISABEL (also called ' Hawise ') was married to prince (afterwards king) John; and although the marriage was dissolved, John clung to her lands till 1214. They finally passed to Isabel's sister AMICIA; her marriage to Roger de Clare ultimately brought Gloucester and Glamorgan into the hands of the Clare family.
ROBERTS, ROBERT DAVIES (1851 - 1911), pioneer in adult education and scientist Born 5 March 1851, at Aberystwyth, eldest son of Richard Davies Roberts, timber merchant, and Sara Davies. Educated locally and at Oswestry, the Liverpool Institute, University College, London (B.Sc., 1st class in geology, 1870, D.Sc., 1878), Clare College, Cambridge (2nd class natural sciences tripos., 1875), he was (1876-7) temporary lecturer at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth
SAMUEL, DAVID (Dewi o Geredigion; 1856 - 1921), schoolmaster and writer Born 1 March 1856 at Aberystwyth, the son of Edward Samuel. He was educated at Aberystwyth National school, Aberystwyth grammar school (Edward Jones), Llandovery College, University College, Aberystwyth (1873), and Clare College, Cambridge, which he entered with a mathematical scholarship in October 1875. He won several prizes and graduated in January 1879, being placed twentieth wrangler. He
WILLIAMS, Sir EVAN (1871 - 1959), BARONET and colliery owner Born 2 July 1871, son of Thomas Williams, colliery owner, of Llwyn Gwern, Pontarddulais, Glamorganshire. Educated at Christ College, Brecon, and Clare College, Cambridge, he returned to Carmarthenshire in 1892 to assist in his father's colliery company. His election in 1913 as chairman of the Monmouthshire and South Wales Coalowners Association marked the beginning of a long period of prominence
WILLIAMSON, EDWARD WILLIAM (1892 - 1953), Bishop of Swansea and Brecon Cambrian Archaeological Association and was elected President at Brecon in August 1957 for the session 1951-52. He delivered a lecture on this occasion, basing his remarks on the history of Welsh saints according to the BL Vespasian A XIV manuscript. He edited The Letters of Osbert of Clare, 1929. In 1946 he published An Anatomy of Joy, three sermons which he preached as the Select Preacher at Oxford in

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