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MORRIS, WILLIAM (1705 - 1763), botanist, antiquary, letter-writer , and went to live at Holyhead. The daughter, JANE (1749 - 1833), born 12 February 1749, married twice: (1) John Jones, exciseman at Caernarvon, (2) Thomas Jones, customs officer at Beaumaris (J. E. Griffith, op. cit., 41). She died, a widow, 21 February 1833 (Camb. Quart. Mag., v, 311). To her we owe the preservation of the letters written to her father by Goronwy Owen (see J. H. Davies's preface to
MORRIS-JONES, Sir JOHN (MORRIS) (1864 - 1929), scholar, poet, and critic Born 17 October 1864 at Trefor, Llandrygarn, Anglesey. In 1868 his family moved to Llanfair-pwll, where he received his elementary education, proceeding in 1876 to Friars School, Bangor. When the headmaster, Daniel Lewis Lloyd was appointed to Christ College, Brecon, in 1879, Morris-Jones accompanied him. He matriculated from Jesus College, Oxford, as a scholar, in 1883, and graduated with
MORRIS-JONES, JOHN HENRY (1884 - 1972), Liberal\/National Liberal politician He was born at Waunfawr, Caernarfonshire on 2 November 1884, the son of Captain Morris Jones and Ann Jones his wife. He received his education at Caernarfon Grammar School, Menai Bridge Grammar School and St Mungo's College, Glasgow. He was a general medical practitioner from 1908 until 1929. He was a captain with the Royal Army Medical Corps from 1914 until 1919 and served in France with the 2nd
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
MORUS BERWYN (fl. c. 1553-1615), poet A native, apparently, of the Berwyn district of North Wales. A number of his poems remain in manuscripts. Most of these are addressed to various members of North Wales families, including John Salusbury of Lleweni and his wife Katheryn (of Berain), Sir William Morys of Clenennau, Robert Wyn of Foelas, Thomas Vaughan of Hafod, captain William Thomas. There are also a poem in praise of Bishop
MORYS ap HYWEL (ap TUDUR) (fl. c. 1530), a poet no details are known concerning his life, although a number of his poems remain in manuscripts. They include a number on religious themes, and some addressed to Siôn Wyn of Y Tŵr (Mold), Edward Puleston of Emral, and Llywelyn ap Ieuan ap Hywel of Moelyrch.
MOSES, EVAN (1726 - 1805) Trevecka, a tailor Register). See M. H. Jones The Trevecka Letters and his lists in Cylchgrawn Cymdeithas Hanes y Methodistiaid Calfinaidd ix. This Evan Moses should not be confused with EVAN MOSES early C.M. exhorter Religion at Bala, a Cardiganshire man (so it is said) who with his brother JOHN MOSES settled in the town (they were blacksmiths) in the early 18th century; they were among the first members of the C.M
MOSES-EVANS, DAVID LEWIS (1822 - 1893), poet and schoolmaster , a post which he held for forty years. He was recognised locally as a good Welsh scholar. In the 1840's he contributed a series of character sketches to Yr Haul and in the 1850's he was a frequent contributor to Yr Ymofynydd on botanical subjects. He translated ' The Vicar of Wakefield ' and ' We are Seven,' etc., into Welsh. At the Lampeter eisteddfod of 1859 he was second to John Morris Jones
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MYTTON, JOHN (1796 - 1834), sportsman and eccentric died in the King's Bench debtors' prison, London, 29 March 1834. He married (1) Harriet Emma, daughter of Sir Tyrwhitt Jones, who died 1820, and (2) Caroline Mallet Giffard, who left him.
NANNEY, DAVID ELLIS (1759 - 1819), attorney-general for North Wales between leases for lives and leases for years (Penrhyn 1848). He became squire of Gwynfryn by his father's death in 1805; in 1812 he inherited the Nanney lands of Bachwen and Elernion by the will of a bachelor uncle on condition that he assumed the surname Nanney. He died on 5 June 1819, without issue, bequeathing his estate to his nephew, Owen Jones of Bryn-hir, on condition that he assumed the name of
NANNEY, RICHARD (1691 - 1767), Evangelical cleric circulating schools of Griffith Jones (at Clynnog the school was often held in the parish church, at other times in distant houses on the borders); many of his letters occur in Welch Piety, all testifying to the value of education and some containing good suggestions regarding the lessons to be given, and some loud in their praises of the old schoolmaster Thomas Gough (as Gough had at one time been the

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