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LLOYD, SIMON (1756 - 1836), Methodist cleric he fell in love with SARAH BOWEN (born 1727, died 29 April 1807), the first ' matron ' of the Trevecka Family. It was not without much trouble that Howel Harris was persuaded to assent to this marriage - or rather, possibly, to abandoning the capital which Sarah had brought into the family; however, on the intercession of John Evans of Bala (1723 - 1817), the marriage took place (the contract is
LLOYD-JONES, DAVID MARTYN (1899 - 1981), minister and theologian English-language side of its work. An annual ministers' conference was held at Bryn-y-groes, Y Bala, one of the residential centres owned by the Movement, and 'the Dr' was always the main speaker at the end of each conference. His greatest Welsh heroes were Howel Harris, Daniel Rowland and William Williams Pantycelyn. For him, Williams's hymns were a powerful combination of biblical theology and the
LLWYD, HARRI (bu farw 1799), Wesleyan lay preacher His early history is still obscure. He is said to have been convinced of his sin under the ministry of David Jones (nephew of Griffith Jones, Llanddowror?) at the Llanlluan chapel-of-ease; this conviction was deepened by the preaching of Howel Harris and the full light burst upon him about August 1743 - one of the few relatively certain dates in his early history. He was a Wesleyan lay preacher
LLWYD, HUW (Huw Llwyd o Gynfal; 1568? - 1630?), soldier and bard His home was Cynfal Fawr, in the parish of Maentwrog, Merioneth. His father was Dafydd Llwyd ap Howel ap Rhys. It is known that Huw Llwyd and his brother Owen bought much land in that neighbourhood. He fought in France and Holland in a Welsh regiment raised to fight the armies of Spain in the Low Countries. It is thought that he built the present Cynfal house; the poet Huw Machno has a cywydd c
teulu MATHIAS Llwyngwaren, Llwyn Gwaring, Llangwaren, Lamphey , and was buried (21 October 1774) at S. Nicholas. He and several of his children had Methodist leanings; Howel Harris stayed at Trefayog in 1740, and we have a letter of Harris's to him (Trev. Letters, 295), and another (294) to one of his daughters - perhaps Ann, for an ' Ann Mathias ' is named in William Richards's reports on the North Pembrokeshire Methodist Societies in 1743. But Mathias
MEREDITH, Sir JOHN (1714 - 1780), lawyer wife Johannah died nine days before him. Meredith was Howel Harris's man of law; letters which passed between them are in the Trevecka collection at the N.L.W., ranging from number 2123 to number 2546.
MEREDITH, THOMAS (fl. 1747-1770), Methodist exhorter, and Antinomian Originally from Llanbryn-mair, he lived at Mochdre, Montgomeryshire, and in the Association held at Tyddyn, 1747, he is named as an exhorter. In 1750 he belonged to Howel Harris's party but was turned out in 1751, perhaps because he inclined to Antinomianism and had come under the influence of Thomas Sheen. He returned to his old haunts and succeeded in winning over a few followers. In 1770
teulu MORGAN Tredegar Park, Henry VII, by whom he was knighted, made steward of Machen, sheriff of Gwynllwg and Newport, and constable of Newport (see Howel T. Evans : Wales and the Wars of the Roses). His will is dated 26 October 1491, and he probably died in 1492. Sir John Morgan had ten children, of whom the eldest was Sir MORGAN JOHN, who was knighted after the battle of Blackheath in 1497 and died in 1504. His second son
MORGAN, EDWARD (1783 - 1869), Evangelical cleric and author of David, a translation of some of Williams's verse. He also published Village Sermons (1828), Letters of the Rev. Griffith Jones (1832); a Life of Henry Philips of Coychurch (n.d., but before 1833); Letters, Essays [etc.] of … John Elias (1847); Life and Times of Howel Harris (1852); Brief Memoir of the late Rev. W. Howels (1854); a biography of Richard Bassett (1860); and a biography of his own
MORGAN, JENKIN (bu farw 1762), Independent minister , Caernarfonshire. On a visit to Bala in January 1741 (he had gone there to escort Howel Harris to Caernarvonshire), he was nearly dragged into the lake by a persecuting mob. Harris, in his diary in February 1741, hints that Morgan was not having a happy time at Glasfryn, but he advised him to remain there, and indeed Morgan found a wife in the neighbourhood, one of the daughters of Tyddynmawr, Tudweiliog - this
MORGAN, THOMAS (1720 - 1799), Independent minister Born 7 January 1720 at Dyffryn-uchaf near Groes-wen, Eglwysilan, Glamorganshire - in 1783 he had a brother, Morgan Thomas, living at Gwerngeiwn, Pontypridd. He was converted by Howel Harris in 1738 or 1739; throughout his life he spoke highly of Harris, and for some years he mingled with the Methodists of his countryside, such as John Belcher and Thomas William of Eglwysilan. He joined (1739) the
MORRICE, JAMES CORNELIUS (1874 - 1953), priest and Welsh scholar D.Phil. (1923) from Corpus Christi. He was vicar of Holyhead, 1926-27, and served afterwards in various English parishes as listed in Crockford 's. He was a very productive scholar in the period after he left college. He edited the first vol. in the Bangor Manuscripts Soc., Gwaith barddonol Howel Swrdwal a'i fab Ieuan (1908) and in the same series Detholiad o waith Gruffudd ab Ieuan ab Llewelyn Vychan

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