Dictionary of Welsh Biography

HERBERT family (earls of POWIS), for Charles I, whom he once entertained there, during the Civil War, but was forced to surrender to Sir Thomas Myddelton, 2 October 1644. His wife was Eleanor, third daughter of the earl of Northumberland. A protégé of the earl of Pembroke (The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, 1942, 70), his Romanist leanings did not embarrass him, but in later life he appears to have grown
HEYLIN, ROWLAND (1562? - 1631), publisher of Welsh books Heylin was apprenticed (26 April 1567) to Thomas Wade, a London merchant, was made free of the Ironmongers' Company (of which he twice became master) in 1584, became treasurer to the Muscovy Co. in 1623, and was elected alderman and sheriff in 1624. He made a considerable fortune, and used it in co-operation with Sir Thomas Myddelton (1550 - 1631), to finance the publication of Welsh books, which
HOWEL, HARRI (fl. 1637-1671), bard (near Dolgelley) and to Dolau-gwyn near Towyn, Meironnydd. It is probable that, like Siôn Phylip, he farmed his own land - there survives to this day a 'Ffridd Harri Howel' on the borders of the parishes of Dolgelley and Llanfachreth. He composed an elegy on the death of John Myddelton, Gwaenynog, in 1637 and a cywydd on the marriage of Robert Owen, parson of Llangelynnin, Meironnydd, 1671.
JONES, DANIEL (1725? - 1806), poet a native of Ruabon, who, on his own evidence, received no formal education. A selection of his ballads and carols is included in Cynulliad Barddorion i Gantorion sef Carolau, Cerddi ac Englynion, a volume of poetry which he edited and published in 1790. From these poems it may be deduced that he was accustomed to great poverty, and was grateful for the occasional patronage of the Myddelton family
JONES, JOHN Maes-y-garnedd,, 'the regicide' Sir Gruffydd Vaughan (exec. 1447) and on her father's from a daughter of Gruffydd Derwas, knight of the body to Henry VI, whose son Tudur Vaughan was ancestor of a line of eminent Irish Joneses (see under Michael Jones, died 1649). John Jones as a younger son was sent to make his way in London, in the service of the Myddelton s, distant kinsmen of his mother through their common descent from Sir
LLOYD family Leighton, Moel-y-garth, the Marches and of gavelkind, and himself becoming the first sheriff of the county (1541-2), one of its earliest M.P. s (1545-52). His son OLIVER LLOYD followed him in the latter capacity (1586) and his grandson CHARLES LLOYD in the former (1601); but on 20 August 1623, Charles Lloyd sold the estate (already heavily mortgaged to Sir Thomas Myddelton (1550 - 1631) and others, and his son BROCHWEL
LLOYD, THOMAS (1673? - 1734), cleric and lexicologist son of Thomas Lloyd, attorney at law at Wrexham, of the family of Plas Madog, Llanfair Talhaearn, Denbighshire; the mother was a Myddelton. On 25 February 1688/9, 'aged 15,' he matriculated from Jesus College, Oxford (B.A. 1692, M.A. 1695); he took orders, served as curate in the Wrexham district, was tutor at Chirk castle, and became chaplain to Mary Myddelton of Croesnewydd, who bequeathed Plas
MIDLETON, WILLIAM (c. 1550 - c. 1600), poet, soldier, and sailor
MORGAN, Sir CHARLES (1575? - 1643?), soldier Myddelton and others, he led a British force to the aid of the king of Denmark on the lower Elbe, but despite naval aid from Sir Sackville Trevor and feats of energy and improvization in holding together a force starved of supplies, he had to yield Staden to Tilly in 1628. By 1629 he was back in Holland, for some years, in constant fear of arrest by creditors who had supplied his forces in the Staden
MORYS, HUW (Eos Ceiriog; 1622 - 1709), poet to assist his father on the farm. That he was well patronised by the gentry of Llansilin and district is amply proved in his poems, for time and again he acknowledges his indebtedness to Sir William Williams (1634 - 1700), Glasgoed (Speaker of the House of Commons), the Myddelton family of Chirk castle, William Owen of Brogyntyn, and others. Huw was ever an ardent churchman, and a staunch royalist
MYDDELTON family Gwaenynog, The Denbighshire Myddeltons claimed descent from Rhirid Flaidd, lord of Penllyn (died 1207), but had adopted the English surname after the marriage of his descendant Rhirid ap David (c. 1393-4) to the daughter of Sir Alexander Myddelton of Myddelton, Salop. His great-grandson, DAVID MYDDELTON, was Receiver for North Wales under Edward IV and Richard III. David's eldest son settled at Gwaenynog
MYDDELTON, WILIAM - see MIDLETON, WILIAM

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