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MORRIS, LEWIS (Llewelyn Ddu o Fôn; 1701 - 1765), poet and scholar them), and to arrive at meanings and forms and constructions scientifically in this way. With his rather parochial contempt for South Walians, he was not quite fair to the work of Moses Williams and William Gambold and Thomas Richards, yet it should be noted that he and his brothers helped the publication of Richards's Dictionary (1753). It is certain that Lewis Morris, by the middle of the 18th
MORRIS, LEWIS (1760 - 1855), Calvinistic Methodist exhorter Born 2 June 1760 at Coed-y-gweddill, Llangelynnin, Meironnydd. His thoughts were turned to religion by hearing David Morris of Tŵr-gwyn (1744 - 1791) preach at Machynlleth, and the Methodist cleric John Williams of Lledrod (1747 - 1831) at Aberystwyth. When over 30, he learnt to read, and in 1791 began preaching. He suffered much persecution - once he had to walk all the way to Llwyngwair in
MORRIS, Sir RHYS HOPKIN (1888 - 1956), politician, stipendiary magistrate, first director of the Welsh Region B.B.C. and served throughout the war. He was twice mentioned in dispatches and awarded the M.B.E. (Military Division) for action in which he was severely wounded and carried shrapnel in his leg for the rest of his life. On 11 September 1918 he married Gwladys Perrie Williams (born 24 November 1889) daughter of Elizabeth (author of Brethyn Cartref (1951), etc.) and W.H. Williams, Llanrwst, whom he met at
MORRIS, RICHARD (1703 - 1779), founder of the Cymmrodorion Society countryside poetry, mostly in the free metres (this, Llawysgrif Richard Morris o Gerddi, was published by T. H. Parry-Williams in 1931, together with verse written by Richard in his early London years). He had also been engaged in cataloguing the Welsh MSS. in the possession of William Jones (1675? - 1749); not to speak of his work as editor of the S.P.C.K. Bible and Prayer-book - much later (1770) he
MORRIS, WILLIAM (1705 - 1763), botanist, antiquary, letter-writer during his lifetime. He married (1745) Jane, daughter and heiress of Robert Hughes of Llanfugail (J. E. Griffith, Pedigrees, 41); she died 1 May 1750, and Morris remained a widower. A son and a daughter survived him. The (elder) son, ROBERT MORRIS, born 9 March 1746, married Jane Parry, a widow, of the Bulkeley of Brynddu family (J. E. Griffith, op. cit., 33), sold his share of the Llanfugail estate
MORRIS, WILLIAM (1783 - 1861), Calvinistic Methodist minister churchyard. He travelled a great deal throughout Wales and was held in high esteem by his contemporaries who regarded him as an ardent and lucid preacher. In 1873 a stout volume of his sermons was published under the editorship of George Williams.
MORYS, HUW (Eos Ceiriog; 1622 - 1709), poet to assist his father on the farm. That he was well patronised by the gentry of Llansilin and district is amply proved in his poems, for time and again he acknowledges his indebtedness to Sir William Williams (1634 - 1700), Glasgoed (Speaker of the House of Commons), the Myddelton family of Chirk castle, William Owen of Brogyntyn, and others. Huw was ever an ardent churchman, and a staunch royalist
MOSES, EVAN (1726 - 1805) Trevecka, a tailor small powers, but his Journals (at N.L.W. - extracts printed in Cylchgrawn Cymdeithas Hanes y Methodistiaid Calfinaidd, x and xxxi) throw valuable light on the history of the Family. His wife (1774) was Barbara Parry of Llansannan, Denbighshire, and it was with her money that the Trevecka Press was set up. He died in 1805 (' Evan Moses, Minister of Gospel, buried 7 December,' in Talgarth Parish
MOSES-EVANS, DAVID LEWIS (1822 - 1893), poet and schoolmaster -mother of J. Lloyd Thomas, headmaster of Llanfyllin grammar school, and the mother of Dafydd Arafnah Thomas, a minister. See T.J. Morgan's article on the eisteddfod poets of Cwmaman and the Swansea valley in Journal of the Welsh Bibliographical Society, 9, 162-85, for his role as a teacher of poets in the area and the comments of Watcyn Wyn (Watkin Hezekiah Williams and Gwydderig. See also Huw Walters
MOSTYN, Baron WILLIAMS of - gweler WILLIAMS, GARETH WYN
MUTTON, Sir PETER (1565 - 1637), judge and politician was already a man of influence in North Wales; his second marriage, to Ellen, sister of John Williams, bishop of Lincoln doubtless brought him into closer touch with national affairs. In addition to serving on the Council for Wales, Sir Peter was elected Member of Parliament for Denbighshire (1604) and Caernarvonshire (1624); no significant relic of his political career remains, except an oft
teulu MYDDELTON Gwaenynog, his brother Hugh (below) and in the Virginia Company, and a universal banker and moneylender, often in association with James I's Welsh goldsmith John Williams. He remained in close touch with Wales, interceding on behalf of his fellow-burgesses of Denbigh against the 'encroachments' of the Salusbury's of Lleweni in 1593, arbitrating in other local disputes in 1595, serving Merionethshire (where he

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