Dictionary of Welsh Biography

EVANS, HENRY (fl. 1787-1839), Arminian Baptist minister appears in Titus Lewis's list, 1810, printed by David Peter in his Hanes Crefydd yng Nghymru. However, on 5 December 1792 Evans was ordained pastor of Craig-y-fargod General Baptist church (see under Charles Winter), by David Saunders I of Aberduar and Morgan John Rhys (Rippon, Baptist Register, i, 523) - a renewal of contact between that church and the Baptists. Evans signs the minutes of the General
VAUGHAN family Tretower Court, ) THOMAS VAUGHAN, Roger Vaughan - see Vaughan family of Porthaml - and four daughters who married into prominent families, the wives of Robert Raglan, Henry Donne, Morgan Gamage, and Morgan ap Thomas ap Gruffudd ap Nicolas. His second wife was Margaret, lady Powis, daughter of James, lord Audley, by his second wife, Eleanor, illegitimate daughter of Edmund, earl of Kent. (Her first husband, Sir Richard
MORGAN ap HYWEL (fl. 1210-1248), Welsh lord of Gwynllwg or Caerleon , in Gwynllwg ('Wentloog'); and in 1154 his son, MORGAN AB OWAIN, was recognized by Henry II as lord of Caerleon - this was the Morgan who was killed by Ifor Bach in 1158. He was followed by his brother, IORWERTH AB OWAIN. In 1171 Iorwerth, somehow, fell under the king's displeasure, and lost Caerleon. When (1172) it seemed that the two were once more coming to terms, Iorwerth's son, OWAIN, was
MORGAN, THOMAS (1543 - c. 1605), Roman Catholic conspirator Protestant advisers known as Leycester's Commonwealth, of which Walsingham was convinced that Morgan was the principal author; Mary believed it was on this account that Elizabeth's government implicated him in Parry's 'plot' to give grounds for a demand for his extradition. Although Henry III dared not offend Spain by complying, he kept Morgan in the Bastille (1585-90), where he continued his
GRIFFITHS, HENRY (1812 - 1891), Independent minister and college tutor Son of James Griffiths (1782 - 1858), who was at that time minister at Machynlleth, but Henry was born at his mother's home, Llanferan, near S. Davids (Hanes Eglwysi Annibynnol Cymru, iii, 27). From Neuaddlwyd (Y Geninen, 1886, 113) he went to University College, London, where he was greatly influenced by Augustus de Morgan, who strengthened his inclination to mathematics and philosophy. After
LLOYD, MORGAN (1820 - 1893), barrister and politician Born at Cefngellgwm, Trawsfynydd, 14 July 1820, son of Morris Lloyd, farmer. The family is stated to have been a branch of the family of Llwyd of Cynfal. Morgan Lloyd at first intended to become a land surveyor and assisted John Matthews in mapping Trawsfynydd parish in 1839. He afterwards went to the Calvinistic Methodist College at Bala and subsequently to Edinburgh University. Becoming a
MORGAN, EDWARD (1783 - 1869), Evangelical cleric and author Born at Tŷ Tanglwst, Pyle, Glamorganshire, and christened there 7 November 1783, son of David Morgan. He graduated from Jesus College, Oxford, in 1806 (M.A. 1811), and in 1814 became vicar of Syston, Leicestershire, adding to this in 1814 the living of Ratcliffe. He was a great admirer (and correspondent) of Thomas Charles of Bala, and also of David Jones of Llangan. His Memoir of Charles was in
MOSTYN, AMBROSE (1610 - 1663), a Puritan preacher Lewis Dwnn could have brought in his name in his Heraldic Visitations; Powys Fadog has many details of the Mostyn family, but not of this Mostyn; T. A. Glenn had a clear opportunity of introducing his name in his Mostyns of Mostyn, but missed it. As a pure matter of fact, Ambrose Mostyn was a Mostyn of Calcot, a younger branch of the Mostyn family of Talacre, a son of Dr. Henry Mostyn, chancellor
WALTER, HENRY (1611 - 1678), Puritan preacher, Independent A member of the house of Piercefield, S. Arvans, Monmouth. He matriculated from Jesus College, Oxford, in 1633, 22 years old, and graduated B.C.L. His father was a squire, and the family were pronounced Anglicans; when his mother made her last will in 1623, the tithes of Howick, after the death of his brother, were to go to Henry. But he came very soon under the influence of the personality and
MAINWARING, WILLIAM HENRY (1884 - 1971), Labour politician of the sitting Labour MP, Colonel D. Watts-Morgan. But his election to parliament was by no means a foregone conclusion. He was opposed by Arthur Horner as a Communist candidate, and a Liberal also stood. Mainwaring's majority over Horner was just 2,899 votes, while the Liberal came in third. The constituency was a stronghold of Communism, and in each subsequent parliamentary election Mainwaring
MORGAN, FRANK ARTHUR (1844 - 1907) Gordon 'Chinese Gordon' (1833-1885), whom he deeply admired. After service at Yichang on the Yangtze he returned to Beijing as acting audit secretary. He returned to Gower in 1885 on long leave in order to rebuild Herbert's Lodge, Bishopston, Gower, a property he had inherited from his uncle Henry John Morgan (1799-1859). He rented Herbert's Lodge to the Pre-Raphaelite landscape painter John Brett and
ROGERS, JOHN (d. 1738), bookseller and printer Son of Reynold Rogers, grocer, London, and possibly a nephew of Gabriel Rogers (died 1705), to whose bookselling business at Shrewsbury John Rogers may have succeeded. He began to print c. 1706, and it is possible that his first book was A Sermon preach'd at the Funeral of … James Owen, Minister of the Gospel in Shrewsbury. April the 11th, 1706. By Matthew Henry, 1706? In 1707 he printed two

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