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MEILYR BRYDYDD (fl. c . 1100-1137), chief court-poet -Jones noted a chronological difficulty in accepting as the work of Meilyr Brydydd the elegy to Trahaearn ap Caradog and Meilyr ap Rhiwallon who were slain at Mynydd Cam (1081). The only other remaining poems by him are the elegy to Gruffudd ap Cynan (1137) and the poet's own death-bed lament. In the former, as Sir J. E. Lloyd observed, we have the earliest extant expression in Welsh poetry of the
MEREDITH, Sir JOHN (1714 - 1780), lawyer was a native of Radnorshire. He was high sheriff of Brecknock in 1762 (the year of his knighthood, it would seem), and also of Radnorshire - in 1780, according to the printed copy of his memorial inscription (Jones, History of the County of Brecknock, 3rd ed., ii, 91), but in 1767 according to the list of sheriffs in Jonathan Williams's Hist. Radnorshire, 2nd ed., 97. He died 6 March 1780; his
MEREDITH, JOHN ELLIS (1904 - 1981), minister (Presbyterian Church of Wales) and author Believe') in 1943 was reprinted. J. E. Meredith was the editor of Credaf, a collection of personal essays by ten lay people around Aberystwyth who used to meet to discuss their Welsh Christian values. In 1962 he prepared a brief study of the life and work of Thomas Levi, one of his predecessors as minister in Tabernacl and contributed to a memorial volume on Gwilym Davies edited by Ieuan Gwynedd Jones
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
MEREDITH, WILLIAM (1874 - 1958), footballer Born 28 July 1874 in Chirk, Denbighshire, the son of James and Jane Meredith. He was one of ten children; his brother Samuel became a football player with Stoke City and Leyton and won eight international caps for Wales. But Billy was the most talented player of the family. He profited greatly from the early training he had received from his teacher at Chirk school, Thomas E. Thomas, the first
MERRICK, RICE (bu farw 1586-7), landed gentleman, genealogist, and historian collaborated. He wrote a book on the history of Glamorgan, and Iolo Morganwg says that he saw it in the library at Hafod, Cardiganshire. It can, therefore, be assumed that this was one of the volumes lost when that library went on fire in 1807. A copy made c. 1660-80 is in the library of the Queen's College, Oxford; this copy was published by Sir Thomas Phillipps at his private press, Middle Hill, in 1825
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MICHAEL, DAVID (Dewi Afan; 1842 - 1913), poet Ruth a Naomi … A Cantata (Cwmafan, 1876) and Gwaredigaeth Pedr o'r Carchar (3rd ed., Cwmafan, 1885; 1st ed., 1879; 2nd ed., 1880). He also published, with Llewelyn Griffiths (Glan Afan), two anthologies of contemporary poetry under the titles of Blodeu'r Beirdd (Cwmafan, 1871), and Oriel y Beirdd (Cwmafan, 1882). He died 11 August 1913, leaving one daughter and four sons. Thomas Morgan (Afanwyson
MICHAEL, GLYNDWR ('Major William Martin, RN'; 1909 - 1943), 'the man who never was' Glyndwr Michael was born 4 January 1909 at 136 Commercial Street, Aberbargoed, Monmouthshire. His mother was Sarah Ann Chadwick and his father, Thomas Michael, died 1925, was a colliery haulier. The family moved frequently, finally to Penygraig and Trealaw in the Rhondda valley. After his father's death, Glyndwr, himself a chronic invalid and emotionally unstable, lived with his mother (his
MICHAEL, JOHN HUGH (1878 - 1959), minister (Meth.), Professor in Methodist colleges in England and Canada, Biblical exegetist Born 9 August 1878 in Port Dinorwic, Caernarfonshire, son of Thomas and Kate Michael. He was educated at Friars School, Bangor, before entering the University College of Wales at Bangor, where he graduated B.A. in 1899. After being a lay preacher on the Caernarfon circuit, he was persuaded to offer himself as a candidate for the ministry with the Wesleyan Methodists. He was accepted and in 1900
MICHAELIONES, THOMAS (1880 - 1960), priest and owner of a gold mine Born 1 May 1880 son of Thomas and Ellen Michael Jones, 24 Baptist St., Pen-y-groes, Caernarfonshire. He attended Pen-y-groes and Menai Bridge schools and was a lay student at Brecon Independent Theological College (1905-06). He took up journalism for a short period but in 1911 he was confirmed as a member of the Anglican Church in Wales at Llanllyfni and served as curate at Blaenau Ffestiniog
MIDLETON, WILLIAM (c. 1550 - c. 1600), poet, soldier, and sailor coasts of Portugal) to warn lord Thomas Howard, then at the Azores waiting for Spanish treasure ships, that a strong fleet was sailing to attack him. Then followed the famous fight between the ' Revenge ' and the Spanish fleet. But it cannot be proved that this was the poet - many other captains bore the surname Midleton. It is difficult to trace his career after this time. He was in the West Indies in

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