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MADOG DWYGRAIG (fl. c. 1370), poet one of the last of the 'Gogynfeirdd' group. A number of his awdlau remain in the ' Red Book of Hergest ' and other MSS. They include religious and satirical poems, and also ones addressed to Hopcyn ap Thomas ab Einion of Ynys Dawy, Gruffudd ap Madog of Llechwedd Ystrad, and Morgan Dafydd ap Llywarch of Ystrad Tywi. A number of these were included in The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales
MADOG FYCHAN ap MADOG ap GRUFFYDD (bu farw 1269), son and brother to the Princes of Powys Fadog Tudur ab Ednyfed was accepted by Henry II in 1246 made his bond no less acceptable to Llywelyn ten years later. He died in December 1269, and may have been buried at Valle Crucis, of which he was a patron.
MAELGWN ap RHYS (bu farw 1295), rebel of 1294 a son of Rhys Fychan, last lord of Geneu'r Glyn in north Cardiganshire, and a descendant of Maelgwn ap Rhys ap Gruffydd. When in 1294 a general uprising against alien rule broke out in Wales, led by Madog ap Llywelyn in North Wales, and Morgan in Glamorgan, Maelgwn assumed the leadership of the insurgents in Cardiganshire. The campaign in west Wales comprised a hard, but unsuccessful, siege of
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
teulu MANSEL Oxwich, Penrice, Margam abbey, line and the more important members of the family are given concisely by G. T. Clark in his Limbus Patrum Morganiae et Glamorganiae (London, 1886); it has to be borne in mind, however, that Clark published his work before De Gray Birch and the authors of the Maunsell … volumes wrote. G. T. Clark starts the line with HENRY MANSEL, who is said to have settled in Gower in the reign of Edward I
MANSEL, Sir ROBERT (1573 - 1656), admiral Fourth (or sixth?) son of Sir Edward Mansel (died 1585), of Penrice, Oxwich, and Margam, by his wife, lady Jane Somerset, daughter of Henry, 2nd earl of Worcester. His career, which is described in the D.N.B., touches the naval history of England much more closely than it did Wales but it is of interest to recall that, by the marriage of his nephew, Sir Lewis Mansel, there was a family connection
MAREDUDD ap MORGAN ap CARADOG ap IESTYN - gweler MORGAN ap CARADOG ap IESTYN
teulu MARSHAL (earls of Pembroke), baronage in opposition to Henry III and his foreign advisers. The old struggle between the Marshal family and the prince of Gwynedd gave place to an alliance against the forces of the Crown in the war in the Marches, 1233-4. In the first phase of the war the king took Usk from Marshal but a temporary truce was established on 6 September 1233. When Richard refused to restore Caerleon to Morgan ap Hywel
teulu MATHEW Castell y Mynach, , lord Justice of Appeal (died 1908). HENRY MATTHEWS (1826 - 1913), Q.C., Conservative home secretary, 1886-92, came of a Tory county family connected with the Radyr line and settled at Belmont, near Hereford. He was created viscount Llandaff in 1895. The family of Castell y Mynach in Pentyrch was founded by Sir David Mathew's brother, ROBERT MATHEW. They were conservative squires who obtained, by
teulu MATHIAS Llwyngwaren, Llwyn Gwaring, Llangwaren, Lamphey Nantlle Vale, Caernarvonshire (see under William Griffith, 1719 - 1782, John Morgan, 1743 - 1801, and Edward Oliver); he remained there till the middle of 1776. In 1776-80 he 'laboured' (though he was never in the Brethren's orders) at Devonport, in 1780-2 at Kingswood, and in 1782-8 in the settlement at Ockbrook, near Derby (once more keeping the shop). He returned to North Wales in May 1788, this time
MATTHEWS, ABRAHAM (1832 - 1899), minister (Congl.) and one of the pioneers of the Welsh settlement in Patagonia the other committee members by local officers in February 1899 as a result. He was editor of Y Dravod, 1896-99. He died 1 April 1899 and was buried in Moriah cemetery where he had been a minister for twenty years. He left a widow, two sons and two daughters. One of his grandchildren is the historian Matthew Henry Jones, Trelew, author of two books on the history of that town : Trelew: un desafio
MATTHEWS, EDWARD (1813 - 1892), Calvinistic Methodist minister and author Richard (Thomas Richard) appeared in 1863, and he was joint author of Cofiant J. Harris Jones John Harris Jones, 1886. He edited two volumes of sermons by Morgan Howells in 1858 and 1869, and two volumes of Thomas Richards's sermons (1866-7). He was a frequent contributor to Y Traethodydd, Y Drysorfa, and Y Cylchgrawn, and a volume containing his articles to these periodicals was published under the

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