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LEWIS, IVOR (1895 - 1982), consultant surgeon to contribute to the wider development of health services in his homeland. Outside Medicine Ivor loved the traditions, the language and literature of Wales and nothing gave him greater pleasure than to be admitted, in 1970, as a member of the White Order of the Gorsedd of Bards with the bardic name Ifor o Wynfe, at the National Eisteddfod held that year in Ammanford, Carmarthenshire. In 1977 his
teulu LLOYD GEORGE . MAIR ELUNED LLOYD GEORGE (1890 - 1907) It is said that Mair Eluned was her father's most cherished child; he almost broke his heart when she died, 29 November 1907, following an operation for appendicitis. She was a beautiful and talented girl, especially so in music; she used to entertain her parents by playing the piano and her father could not be reconciled to the fact that ' the white hand was
LLOYD, OWEN MORGAN (1910 - 1980), minister and poet national festival and is remembered as the witty adjudicator of 'Ymryson y Beirdd' in the literature tent. He was honoured with the White Robe of the Gorsedd as Ap Dyfrdwy, and won chairs in Eisteddfod Tref Caernarfon (1937), Eisteddfod Môn (1953 and 1954), and Eisteddfod Powys (1958). In 1978, when he retired from the ministry, Cymdeithas Barddas presented him with a small volume of his work entitled O
LOUGHER, Sir LEWIS (1871 - 1955), industrialist and politician Council, and M.P. (C) for Cardiff East, 1922-23, and for Cardiff Central, 1924-29. His parliamentary career was notable in that he succeeded in getting an act of parliament on the statute book, namely the Road Transport Lighting Act, which he presented as a private member's bill in February 1927, and which to the present day requires that every vehicle shall have a white light at the front and red light
MADDOCKS, ANN (the Maid of Cefn Ydfa; 1704 - 1727) been discovered; that the 'Maid' was in love with the poet ' Wil Hopcyn ' - that he composed the verses ' Watching the White Wheat ' to her - and that she died of a broken heart. This story has been fully discussed by G. J. Williams, in Y Llenor, 1927 and 1928; see also his Traddodiad Llenyddol Morgannwg, 251-9.
MARTHA'R MYNYDD, Mountain Martha (fl. c. 1770), impostor invisible) mansion on the mountain, close to her cottage - ' Miss Ingram ' (his daughter) was indeed at times visible to mortal eyes, clad in white from head to foot; and her father preached, at dead of night, to gatherings in the darkness of Martha's cottage. It is probable that Martha's father was ' Mr. Ingram,' and pretty certain that Martha herself was ' Miss Ingram,' for on one occasion, when Martha
MATTHEWS, JOHN HOBSON (Mab Cernyw; 1858 - 1914), Roman Catholic historian, archivist and solicitor entered the Roman Catholic church in 1877, became a solicitor in 1889, and practised at Cardiff for many years. He was a good linguist and learnt Maltese, Cornish, and Welsh. He it was who first drew attention to the carols of the Welsh Catholic martyr, Richard White (Catholic Record Society, iv). He edited Emynau Catholig, was the translator of Ffordd y Groes, and became a member of the Welsh Bardic
MAURICE, WILLIAM (bu farw 1680), antiquary and collector of manuscripts copyists, and to spend his time copying and studying manuscripts. In these studies he regarded Robert Vaughan of Hengwrt as his Gamaliel. He worked much at Hengwrt and compiled a catalogue of the manuscripts in the collection. He himself acquired some important Welsh manuscripts, e.g. the ' White Book of Hergest,' which was lost in a fire at a bindery in Covent Garden in 1810, and the manuscript of the
McLUCAS, CLIFFORD (1945 - 2002), artist and theatre director encouraged and tutored by local primary school teacher Emyr Hywel. He became part of a group of theatre makers centered around the home of Mary Lloyd Jones at Aberbanc, putting on plays such as Liz Whittaker's The White Tower. He also began to investigate the performative aspects of the structures he was making at places like Pigeonsford in Llangrannog. This interest led him to seek collaborations with
MORGAN, DYFNALLT (1917 - 1994), poet, literary critic and translator stand and refuse to bear arms. One of his earliest poems, Y Milwr Gwyn (The White Soldier), about the war memorial in Llanddewi Brefi, written when he was twenty one, bears eloquent witness to his opposition to militarism. He appeared in front of the South Wales Tribunal sitting in Aberystwyth in 1940 with some of his fellow students, such as Merfyn Turner, and his pacifist beliefs were recognised by
MORRIS, ROGER (fl. 1590) Coed-y-talwrn, Llanfair Dyffryn Clwyd, transcriber of manuscripts Nothing is known of his private life. He wrote an exceptionally neat hand, and he had opportunities to copy some of the older Welsh manuscripts, e.g. the ' Black Book of Carmarthen ' and the ' White Book of Rhydderch,' possibly through friendships with Jasper Griffith. His interests were wide and there remain of his transcription collections of lives of saints (Llanstephan MS 34), a botanology
NICHOLLS, JOHN (1555 - 1584?), controversial theologian His only connection with Wales is that he was a son of a John Nicholls and was born at Cowbridge. He entered White Hall (afterwards Jesus College), Oxford, and later transferred to Brasenose, but left without a degree. After leaving the University he returned home and acted as a tutor before obtaining a curacy at Withycombe in Somerset. The rest of his short life was spent partly on the continent

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