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MORGAN, WILLIAM (Y Bardd; 1819 - 1878), poet were, in the main, responsible for the 'cymanfa ganu' movement which, inaugurated at Aberdare in 1859, spread soon afterwards to various parts of Wales. He married Mary, sister of Noah Morgan Jones (Cymro Gwyllt). David Williams (Alaw Goch) was his brother-in-law, the husband of his sister Ann. He died 7 September 1878, and was buried in Aberdare cemetery.
MORGAN, WILLIAM (1801 - 1872), Baptist minister Cardigan. He then spent two years at Abergavenny College. Towards the end of 1824 he received a call to Holyhead and was ordained 18 April 1825 - the first Baptist to be ordained in Anglesey; there, he was unequalled except by Christmas Evans. He was, says Robert Jones (1806 - 1896) of Llanllyfni, as able as John Elias, but not as lucid. He joined issue with other able men in Y Bedyddiwr, wrote an elegy
MORRIS, DAVID (Bardd Einion; 1797? - 1868), poet his produce to his neighbours or in the near-by markets. He was well versed in Welsh history and poetry and could recite long poems from memory. He was himself an able writer of englynion and at the Llanfair Caereinion eisteddfod, out of forty competitors, won the prize for an englyn on ' The Wind.' It is said that Gwallter Mechain and Robert Jones (Bardd Mawddach) used to correct his earlier
MORRIS, DAVID (1744 - 1791), Calvinistic Methodist exhorter, and hymn-writer ; his second wife is called 'Betti' in the elegy written upon him by Thomas Jones. The celebrated Ebenezer Morris was his son by his first wife. He died 17 September 1791, and was buried in Tredreyr churchyard. David Morris was a hymn-writer of some distinction. In 1773 a collection of his hymns was published by J. Ross of Carmarthen under the title Can y Pererinion Cystuddiedig ar eu Taith tu a Seion
MORRIS, EBENEZER (1769 - 1825), Calvinistic Methodist minister Rhys. He joined the Methodist society at Trecastle and began to exhort c. 1788. He returned to his own neighbourhood and, on his father's death in 1791, undertook the work of supervising the Methodist flock of Tŵr-gwyn and the surrounding districts. He married, 1792, Mary Jones of Dinas, Betws Ifan, and with her dowry built a new house at Blaen-y-wern, where he lived from 1804 until his death 15
MORRIS, HAYDN (1891 - 1965), musician composer. He died December 1965 and was buried at Llanelli. He was one of the three prominent composers of the period between the two World Wars who gained their apprenticeship through the National Eisteddfod (the other two were W. Bradwen Jones (WILLIAM ARTHUR JONES) and W. Albert Williams, and over a period of about 40 years he won more than 60 prizes in the composition section at the National
MORRIS, JAMES (1853 - 1914), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and author interested in the history of his connexion in Carmarthenshire, and produced four books on that subject: Cofiant Dafi Dafis, Rhydcymerau (1907), Cofiant Thomas Jones, Conwyl (1899), Efengylwyr Seion (1905 -biographical sketches), and Hanes Methodistiaeth Sir Gaerfyrddin (1911). They are somewhat uncritical, but interesting and very useful.
MORRIS, LEWIS (Llewelyn Ddu o Fôn; 1701 - 1765), poet and scholar (by Daniel Silvan Evans,), and the second is still in MS., at the National Library - on this matter, see G. J. Williams in the 1943 Supplement to N.L.W. Jnl., 30-2. Then again, his private press (on which, see Ifano Jones, Printing and Printers in Wales), from which he intended to issue reprints of the older literature, had to be abandoned after the issue of a single item, Tlysau o'r Hen Oesoedd
MORRIS, PERCY (1893 - 1967), politician and trade unionist , 1937-43 and as its president, 1943-53, and from 1941 until 1945 he was the Deputy Regional Commissioner for Civil Defence (Wales Region). During World War II he acted as president of the Swansea Labour Association. Percy Morris stood unsuccessfully as the Labour candidate against Sir Lewis Jones in the Swansea West division in the 1935 general election. He was elected M.P. (Lab.) for the same
MORRIS, RICHARD (1703 - 1779), founder of the Cymmrodorion Society countryside poetry, mostly in the free metres (this, Llawysgrif Richard Morris o Gerddi, was published by T. H. Parry-Williams in 1931, together with verse written by Richard in his early London years). He had also been engaged in cataloguing the Welsh MSS. in the possession of William Jones (1675? - 1749); not to speak of his work as editor of the S.P.C.K. Bible and Prayer-book - much later (1770) he
MORRIS, RICHARD ROBERTS (1852 - 1935), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and poet eisteddfodau - among others, Corwen (1889), Dolgelley (1893), and the Wrexham Young Men's eisteddfod (1894). He was adjudged second best in the competition for the crown at the Llanelly national eisteddfod (1895) when the subject was ' John the Beloved Disciple '; and his pryddest was published the same year at Caernarvon. Several of his hymns are to be found in Cân a Moliant (H. Haydn Jones) and one
MORRIS, ROGER (fl. 1590) Coed-y-talwrn, Llanfair Dyffryn Clwyd, transcriber of manuscripts Nothing is known of his private life. He wrote an exceptionally neat hand, and he had opportunities to copy some of the older Welsh manuscripts, e.g. the ' Black Book of Carmarthen ' and the ' White Book of Rhydderch,' possibly through friendships with Jasper Griffith. His interests were wide and there remain of his transcription collections of lives of saints (Llanstephan MS 34), a botanology

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1321 - 1332 of 1927 for "Griffith Hartwell Jones"