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LLOYD, Sir THOMAS DAVIES (1820 - 1877), baronet, landowner, and politician Oakeley, bart. In 1840 he joined the 13th Light Dragoons, and later served in Canada with the 82nd Foot, commanding a detachment at Ottawa. He was appointed D.L. for Cardiganshire and Carmarthenshire in 1847 and served as high sheriff for Cardiganshire in 1851, being created a baronet 21 January 1863. Sir Thomas served as Liberal member of parliament for Cardiganshire, 1868-74, and died in London on 21
LLWYD, HUMPHREY (c. 1527 - 1568), antiquary and map-maker , John's sister. The date of their marriage is unknown, but they had six children, four boys: Splendian, Henry, John and Humphrey, and two girls: Jane and Lumley. By 1563 Llwyd had returned to Denbigh and, according to Wood, was living within the Castle walls. He was also listed as an Alderman of the town. In the same year he was elected MP for the Denbigh Boroughs and it was during this Parliament that
LOYD, LEWIS (1767 - 1858), banker Born 1 January 1767 at Cwm-y-to, in the parish of Llanwrda, Carmarthenshire. At a school conducted by David Price, at Llan-y-crwys, near Lampeter, he acquired liberal views of Christian truth and, in 1785, entered the Presbyterian Academy of 'Carmarthen,' situated at that time at Swansea, completing his course in 1789. In the same year, his hope of a tutorship being disappointed by the election
MACLEAN, Sir EWEN JOHN (1865 - 1953), first professor of obstetrics and gynaecology at the Welsh National School of Medicine chairman of the Body during the height of the BMA's struggle with the Liberal government in 1911 over the introduction of the contentious National Health Insurance Bill which many in the medical profession regarded as a challenge to their status. Maclean, whose brother Donald was a prominent Liberal MP and a friend of David Lloyd George, was unfairly accused of being too lenient with the government in
MAINWARING, WILLIAM HENRY (1884 - 1971), Labour politician of the sitting Labour MP, Colonel D. Watts-Morgan. But his election to parliament was by no means a foregone conclusion. He was opposed by Arthur Horner as a Communist candidate, and a Liberal also stood. Mainwaring's majority over Horner was just 2,899 votes, while the Liberal came in third. The constituency was a stronghold of Communism, and in each subsequent parliamentary election Mainwaring
MARDY-JONES, THOMAS ISAAC (1879 - 1970), economist and politician . In the following year he suffered an eye accident, and in 1909 he was appointed a parliamentary agent to the South Wales Miners' Federation. He gave particular attention to the activities of local government and the rating system. Mardy-Jones was elected an M.P. (L.) for the Pontypridd division in a by-election in July 1922 when he defeated the Liberal T.A. Lewis. He continued to represent this
MARQUAND, HILARY ADAIR (1901 - 1972), economist and Labour politician . He served as Labour MP for Cardiff East, 1945-50, and for Middlesbrough East, 1950-61, when he resigned his seat. At Middlesbrough he always enjoyed substantial majorities at each parliamentary election. In the general election of July 1945 he had defeated Sir James Grigg who was at the time Secretary of State for War in the Churchill caretaker government which followed the fall of the coalition
MATTAN, MAHMOOD HUSSEIN (1923 - 1952), seaman and victim of injustice respected local Somali named Mohamed Kalineh took up the cause to clear Mattan's name after the main prosecution witness Harold Cover was charged with the attempted murder of his own daughter Elaina Smith, a case which bore the hallmark of Lily Volpert's murder in 1952. This created media interest, and journalist David Wickham and Ted Rowlands MP urged Home Secretary James Callaghan to reopen the
McBRIDE, NEIL (1910 - 1974), Labour politician within the Paisley Labour Party. He was a member of the Paisley Co-operative Manufacturing Society for seventeen years and chairman of Paisley CLP, 1950-62. He unsuccessfully contested Perth and East Perthshire in the general election of October 1951 and the High Peak division of Derbyshire in 1955. He entered parliament as the Labour MP for Swansea East in a by-election in March 1963 as successor to D
MORGAN, DAVID (1779 - 1858), Independent minister and historian Daniel Jones). Catherine's first husband was Joseph David Jones. He was one of the leaders of his denomination and was a well-known and active Liberal. He wrote a great deal to the Dysgedydd and was one of those who contributed articles to John Roberts of Llanbryn-mair's 'Blue Book.' But it was as an historian that he came into greatest prominence. His chief work was Hanes yr Eglwys Gristnogol. He also
MORGAN, GEORGE OSBORNE (1826 - 1897), politician , and Oxford, he graduated in 1848. He won the Craven scholarship and the Newdigate prize, and was elected Fellow of University College, 1850-7. He was called to the Bar (Lincoln's Inn) 6 June 1853, and practised as equity draughtsman and conveyancer; he took silk in 1869. He was a Liberal candidate for Caernarvonshire in 1859 but withdrew to avoid splitting the Liberal vote. In 1868 he was returned
MORGAN, HERBERT (1875 - 1946), minister (B), university lecturer, and director of extra-mural studies responsibilities. His last work, Reason and religion, 1946, is a liberal theologian's reaction to the teaching of Karl Barth, which was gaining ground in some circles in Wales. He was a biblical scholar but this aspect of his learning is represented only by a Welsh commentary, with John Gwili Jenkins on portions of the Book of Isaiah, 1908, and articles in Y Geiriadur Beiblaidd (1926). He married Mrs. James, a

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