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MAURICE, Sir WILLIAM (1542 - 1622), politician achieved in partnership with the other British peoples; the bard Richard Owen aptly describes him (Brogyntyn MS. 3/376) as ' penn plaid brytaniaid.' His death (10 August 1622) is recorded on a tombstone (now almost obliterated) in Penmorfa church. His surviving heiress Elin, lady (Francis) Eure (1578 - 1626), daughter of his eldest son, William Wyn Maurice, and widow of Sir Francis Walsingham's secretary
MEREDITH, JOHN ELLIS (1904 - 1981), minister (Presbyterian Church of Wales) and author where he enjoyed the company and contribution of intellectuals such as Professor Idwal Jones and Professor R. I. Aaron. He gave of his best to Welsh culture and he had strong convictions with regard to the Welsh language. When Ifan ab Owen Edwards decided suddenly one week in 1939 to start a Welsh Language Primary School the following Monday, he received the support of parents of four children. Of the
teulu MEYRICK Bodorgan, of the same name - Richard Meyrick; but it can hardly be said that any one of the five left much of a mark on the history of the county. There was trouble for years between RICHARD MEYRICK II (died 1596) and Hugh Owen of Bodeon concerning part of the Aberffraw manor lands; the Bodorgan estate was crushed by the cost of the litigation and by 1590 a substantial portion had been sold to discharge
teulu MEYRICK Hascard, Fleet, Bush, Wigmore, The Pembrokeshire branch of the Meyricks of Bodorgan, Anglesey arose through the marriage of Rowland Meyrick, bishop of Bangor, to Catherine, daughter of Owen Barrett of Gelliswic, Pembrokeshire. Their eldest son, Sir GELLY (GILLY, GILLIES or GULLIAM) MEYRICK (1556? - 1601), was named after the maternal estate, and on his father's death (when he was c. 9 years old) was sent to be brought up on
MILLS, RICHARD (Rhydderch Hael; 1809 - 1844), musician another (1864) for a canon for three voices. He moved to Wrexham to serve the publishing firm of Hughes and Son, whose music-publishing he supervised down to 1877, while conducting choirs at Wrexham, Broughton, and Bangor Iscoed. But his marriage in 1876 with Sarah Owen of Aberderfyn, Rhosllannerchrugog, led him, in 1878, to set up a press there - where, in 1894, he also started the Rhos Herald
MORGAN, DAVID (1779 - 1858), Independent minister and historian Gartside chapel, Manchester, and in 1839 to Llanfyllin, where he remained until his retirement in 1857. He died at Oswestry 14 July 1858, and was buried in the Pendref chapel burial ground at Llanfyllin. His daughter, Ann, married Thomas Bynner, Llanfyllin, draper, and they had a son, David Morgan Bynner who married Catherine Jones, daughter of Owen Daniel, Caethle, Tywyn in 1877 (see article on John
MORGAN, EDWARD (1817 - 1871), Calvinistic Methodist minister to Y Gwyddoniadur. He was moderator of the North Wales Calvinistic Methodist Association in 1865, and of the general assembly in 1870. He died 9 May 1871. Two volumes of his sermons, edited by Dr. Owen Thomas, were published (1876 and 1882). His widow died 27 June 1888. Their eldest son was Richard Humphreys Morgan.
MORGAN, JENKIN (bu farw 1762), Independent minister the North, and as William Prichard had been driven to settle in Anglesey, he too went there. By that time the early concord between Independents and Methodists in North Wales (as elsewhere) had suffered some eclipse. An Independent church was formed, in 1744, at the house of a yeoman named John Owen, Caeau Môn, in Cerrig-Ceinwen parish, and Morgan was ordained as its pastor at Watford
MORGAN, JOHN JAMES (1870 - 1954), minister (Presb.) and author biographies: Hanes Dafydd Morgan a Diwygiad '59 (1906); Cofiant Edward Matthews (1922); Cofiant Evan Phillips (1930); and Hanes Daniel Owen (1936). At the end of his life he published his autobiography and reminiscences in three interesting volumes (1948, 1949 and 1953), under the title A welais ac a glywais.
MORGAN, OWEN (Morien; 1836? - 1921), journalist and miscellaneous writer who died on 16 December 1921 (Western Mail), was then said to have been over 80, and to have been a son of Thomas T. Morgan and his wife, Margaret, of Pen-y-graig, Rhondda. He had sedulously concealed his age. But the bishop's transcripts for Ystradyfodwg parish record the christening on 23 February 1836 of ' Owen, son of Thomas and Margaret Owen of Dinas [Rhondda], collier ', and it seems pretty
MORGAN, RICHARD (1854 - 1939), schoolmaster and naturalist an enthusiastic naturalist and Sir Owen M. Edwards described him as ' one of the greatest naturalists Wales has ever produced.' He won three prizes at the national eisteddfod for works on natural history. He not only contributed articles on natural history to Cymru (O.M.E.) and other periodicals but he was also the author of Tro Trwy'r Wig; Llyfr Blodau; Llyfr Adar; Rhamant y Gog Lwydlas, and other
MORGAN, ROBERT (1608 - 1673), bishop of Bangor Henblas, Llangristiolus, whose political views he shared. He helped to draft the loyal declaration from Anglesey (14 July 1648), and in a funeral sermon on Owen Holland of Berw (2 December 1656) castigated the 'new and phantastick revelations' of the Puritan preachers (NLW MS 3069B). After the Restoration he recovered his living of Trefdraeth, became archdeacon of Merioneth (24 August 1660), and

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