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MORGAN, CLIFFORD (Cliff) ISAAC (1930 - 2013), rugby player, sports writer and broadcaster, media executive . Gallenkamp & Co as a salesman of laboratory equipment, a job he had never enjoyed, so accepted Davies's offer to, initially, become involved as a non-staff member, to run alongside his sales role. But in 1960, Morgan was appointed to the full-time role of BBC Sports Organiser in Wales, beginning an association with the BBC that would last for much of the next 38 years. Morgan's first broadcasting role was
MORGAN, DAVID JENKINS (1884 - 1949), teacher and agricultural officer occupied during the two World Wars. During his period as a teacher in Tregaron he co-operated with Samuel Morris Powell in writing, producing and acting in plays which depicted the history of the district; he usually played the part of the hero. After his appointment to the agricultural post, he settled in Lampeter and from there travelled to all parts of Cardiganshire, acquainting himself with its
MORGAN, JOHN RHYS (Lleurwg; 1822 - 1900), Baptist minister, lecturer, poet, and littérateur eloquent speaker on the Liberal platform, but is probably best remembered for his popular lectures, of which at least thirty subjects have been recorded. In addition, he was an eisteddfod adjudicator, co-editor of Y Medelwr Ieuanc, which was first published in 1871, and editor of the poetry section of Seren Cymru from 1860 to 1877, and Seren Gomer in the early 1860's, but owing to his multiplicity of
MORGAN, RICHARD HUMPHREYS (1850 - 1899), Calvinistic Methodist minister and writer (1772? - 1833) of Wern. He wrote on literary and political subjects to Y Traethodydd, Y Geninen, Y Drysorfa, and other publications; he was a widely-read man and a trenchant controversialist, taking a prominent part in the disestablishment debates. From June 1889 until April 1891 he was with O. M. Edwards, co-editor of the monthly Cymru Fydd. He adapted Pitman's system of shorthand to Welsh in
MORGAN, ROBERT (1621 - 1710), Baptist minister of Llandeilo-tal-y-bont (Pontardulais); born 1621. He attended the so-called general meetings of the Welsh Baptist churches in 1653-4 as a representative of Carmarthen, and signed the proceedings, but it is not certain that he was minister there. The church at Carmarthen did not survive the persecution of the Restoration period, and he became co-pastor with Lewis Thomas (died 1704), The Moor, at
MORGAN, THOMAS (1720 - 1799), Independent minister family,' he removed to Delph, Yorkshire, where hyper-Calvinists bothered him, and thence (1763) to Morley, where he was troubled by Methodists. He had half-promised (1763) to accept a call from Pwllheli, where his father-in-law had been pastor, but withdrew - and he refused a call to Bridgend. He was in vain begged (1766) to return to Henllan. There was talk, in 1777, of appointing him co-tutor with
MORGAN, THOMAS (Afanwyson; 1850 - 1939), Baptist minister, historian and littêrateur from 1900 until his retirement on the completion of fifty years in the ministry. He died 27 August 1939. He was president of the Welsh Baptist Union in 1927; president of the East Glamorgan Baptist Association, 1819, and co-editor of Y Bedyddiwr Bach, 1882, and Yr Heuwr, 1890; he was also secretary of the South Wales Temperance Association for thirty years until 1920. He is probably best remembered
MORTON, RICHARD ALAN (1899 - 1977), biochemist Peredur Jones, Jennie Thomas and others who were influential later in the life of the Welsh nation. Morton graduated with first class honours in Chemistry in 1922 and he then studied for his doctorate under Professor Edward Charles Cyril Baly (1871-1948), a pioneer in the application of spectroscopy in the field of chemistry. The influence of his co-researcher Selig Hecht (1892-1947) led Morton to apply
teulu MOSTYN Mostyn Hall, Pontruffydd (1725 - 1793), whose second son, also Bell Lloyd (of Crogen, Meironnydd), was an enlightened agriculturist. The 2nd baronet married, 1794, Elizabeth, 3rd daughter of Sir Roger Mostyn, 5th bart., and sister and co-heir of Sir Thomas Mostyn, 6th bart., who, as shown above, died unmarried on 17 April 1831, the estates passing to her husband, Sir EDWARD PRYCE LLOYD, who, on 10 September of the same
teulu MYDDELTON Gwaenynog, three parliaments of 1624-6. Yet at the very end of his life he co-operated with Rowland Heylyn in financing the publication of the first portable Welsh Bible and other Welsh devotional works (1630). He died on 12 August 1631, leaving his Welsh estates to his eldest surviving son Thomas Myddelton and those in Essex to a younger son, TIMOTHY MYDDELTON, founder of another wealthy stock which played a
NASH-WILLIAMS, VICTOR ERLE (1897 - 1955), archaeologist of 'digs' outside the legionary fortress of Caerleon. His earliest general publication in the Roman field was his Catalogue of the Roman inscribed and sculptured stones found at Caerleon (National Museum of Wales, 1935), in which his brother, Alva Harry, was co-author; his last such, The Roman frontier in Wales (Cardiff, 1954), 'severely factual' (H.J. Randall). In both these, he showed a decided
NICHOLAS, THOMAS (1816 - 1879), Congregational minister, theological college tutor, and historian Trefgarn to Liverpool and back undertaken by Nicholas and James Evan(s) (Caereinion, 1814 - 1842), and legal letters and papers, 1876-77 (NLW MS 3106E) relating to Lonsdale House School, Bridgwater, in which Nicholas was co-partner. He died, unmarried, at 156 Cromwell Road, London, 14 May, 1879, and was buried in Hammersmith cemetery (Edwin Poole, The illustrated history and biography of Brecknockshire

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