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MORGAN MWYNFAWR (fl. 730), king of Morgannwg from whom the old kingdom of Glamorgan, embracing Glywysing and Gwent, probably took its name. He was the grandson and no doubt the successor of king Meurig ap Tewdrig, the reputed husband of Onbraus, daughter of Gwrgant Mawr, last king of Erging (south Herefordshire). Morgan's realm actually extended beyond the Wye into part of Erging, and westwards as far as the Towy. He was succeeded by his
MORGAN, Sir CHARLES (1575? - 1643?), soldier against the accession of James I, but he refused and was rewarded with a knighthood (23 July 1603). He then went back to Ostend till its capitulation to Spinola (20 September 1604), when he came home and was made a justice of the peace. After the outbreak (May 1605) of 'popish' riots in Herefordshire and South Wales (in which his brother-in-law, Rice ap Price, was reputed a ringleader) he was imprisoned
MORGAN(N), MAURICE (c. 1725 - 1802), Shakespearian commentator and political writer was descended from the ancient family of Morgan of Blaenbylan in the parish of Clydey, Pembrokeshire, who traced his ancestry, according to a pedigree by William Lewes the antiquarian (Bronwydd MS. 7170), to Llewelyn ap Gwilym of Cryngae (who was an uncle to Dafydd ap Gwilym) and Ednyfed Fychan. Fenton, who knew him and his brother William, states that he was brought up at the family home which
MORGAN, THOMAS JOHN (1907 - 1986), Welsh scholar and writer (Wales) dissertation in 1930. He was elected to a University of Wales Fellowship but he was unable to take it up as he was appointed Assistant Lecturer in Welsh at the University College of South Wales in Cardiff where W. J. Gruffydd was professor. He lectured in the Welsh department in Cardiff and published regularly until 1951 (he spent 1941-45 at the Ministry of Labour and National Service) and that
MORGAN, WILLIAM (c. 1545 - 1604), bishop, and translator of the Bible into Welsh Born at Ty Mawr, Wybrnant, in the parish of Penmachno, the son of John ap Morgan ap Llywelyn, a copyholder on the Gwydir estates, and his wife Lowri, daughter of William ap John ap Madog. Reputed to have received his early education at the hands of a former monk, he entered S. John's College, Cambridge, as a sub-sizar in 1565. He graduated B.A. in 1568, and M.A. in 1571; and later became a B.D
MORRIS ap ROBERT - gweler ROBERTS, MORRIS
MORRIS, JOHN (1706 - 1740), sailor son of Morris ap Rhisiart Morris, and brother of Lewis, Richard, and William Morris. Born in 1706. Little is known about him, other than what is said in an article on his brother Lewis in the Cambrian Register, 1796, 232, from which we learn that he died on board the warship Torbay (in the unsuccessful attack on Cartagena) in 1740, aged 34 - he was ' master's mate.' We have some 22 of his letters
MORRIS, LEWIS (Llewelyn Ddu o Fôn; 1701 - 1765), poet and scholar Eldest son of Morris ap Rhisiart Morris, and brother of Richard, William, and John Morris; born in 1701 (christened 2 March 1700/1) in the parish of Llanfihangel Tre'r Beirdd, Anglesey. Like his brothers, he learnt his father's craft; it would appear from his own words that he had little formal education, but in view of the attainments he displayed later, this may well be doubted. In his twenties
MORRIS, MORRIS ap RHISIART (1674 - 1763), farmer and cooper
MORRIS, RICHARD (1703 - 1779), founder of the Cymmrodorion Society Born 2 February 1702-3 at Y Fferem, Llanfihangel-tre'r-beirdd, Anglesey, son of Morris ap Rhisiart Morris and brother of Lewis, William, and John Morris. He worked at first in his father's workshop, and we have (in his own hand) a list of implements made there by him at 15. According to the papers of the late Iolo A. Williams, Richard went to London on 1 August 1722 and his brother Lewis on 7 May
MORRIS, ROGER (fl. 1590) Coed-y-talwrn, Llanfair Dyffryn Clwyd, transcriber of manuscripts the orthography of Dr. Gruffydd Robert, and under-dotted letters instead of doubling them. A number of his manuscripts had come into the possession of Thomas Evans, Hendreforfudd, by 1607.
MORRIS, WILLIAM (1705 - 1763), botanist, antiquary, letter-writer Born 6 May 1705 at Y Fferem, Llanfihangel Tre'r Beirdd, Anglesey, third son of Morris ap Rhisiart Morris and brother of Lewis, Richard, and John Morris. His own words suggest that he was tall and lanky; possibly he had a pronounced stoop, for his nephew John Owen (died 1759) nicknames him 'Gwilym Gam' (the crooked), but it may be that the nephew refers rather to his 'stinginess' - he had neither

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