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MORGAN, WILLIAM (Y Bardd; 1819 - 1878), poet were, in the main, responsible for the 'cymanfa ganu' movement which, inaugurated at Aberdare in 1859, spread soon afterwards to various parts of Wales. He married Mary, sister of Noah Morgan Jones (Cymro Gwyllt). David Williams (Alaw Goch) was his brother-in-law, the husband of his sister Ann. He died 7 September 1878, and was buried in Aberdare cemetery.
MORGAN, WILLIAM (1801 - 1872), Baptist minister , and a Cofiant in memory of Robert Williams of Ruthin, and published Cofiant a Gweithiau Christmas Evans, the profits of which he made over to Evans's widow. His masterpiece, however, was Cysondeb y Ffydd (672 pages). He died of a stroke, 15 September 1872.
MORGAN, WILLIAM (1750 - 1833), actuary and scientist William Morgan was born in Newcastle, Bridgend, Glamorgan, on 26 May 1750, the third of eight children and the first son of William Morgan (1708-1772), apothecary and doctor, and his wife Sarah (née Price, 1726-1803), sister of the philosopher Richard Price. The precise date of his birth is given by Caroline Williams, the family biographer and great-niece of William, but the date on his tomb is 6
MORRIS, DAVID (1744 - 1791), Calvinistic Methodist exhorter, and hymn-writer the common people. He began to get stout when he was still young and this prevented him from touring as much as some of his contemporaries. In 1774, at the request of the Methodists at Tŵr-gwyn, in the parish of Tredreyr, he went to that place to take charge of the society there, and made his home at Pen-y-ffos. Mary, his wife, was buried in 1788 and Williams of Pantycelyn wrote an elegy after her
MORRIS, EBENEZER (1790 - 1867), cleric was already curate - the patron both of Llan-nonn and Llanelly was Rees Goring Thomas, one of the promoters of the Society of National Schools (A History of Carmarthenshire, ii, index). He married (at Llandyfaelog, 2 September 1813), Sarah, daughter of John Williams of Carmarthen, fifth son of the commentator, Peter Williams; there were two daughters of the marriage, and the daughter of one of these
MORRIS, EDWARD ROWLEY (1828 - 1893), antiquary to London to be within reach of the record-collections. He died in London, 24 July 1893, but was buried at Newtown. He was one of the earliest members of the 'Powysland Club,' and contributed many important articles to Mont. Coll., Bye-Gones, and similar journals. In the opinion of his fellow- antiquary Richard Williams (1835 - 1906), his knowledge of Montgomeryshire history was 'perfectly unique.'
MORRIS, HAYDN (1891 - 1965), musician composer. He died December 1965 and was buried at Llanelli. He was one of the three prominent composers of the period between the two World Wars who gained their apprenticeship through the National Eisteddfod (the other two were W. Bradwen Jones (WILLIAM ARTHUR JONES) and W. Albert Williams, and over a period of about 40 years he won more than 60 prizes in the composition section at the National
MORRIS, JAN (1926 - 2020), writer seventh book, Venice, was published to widespread acclaim, though it coincided with family tragedy. After the arrival of their first two sons, the Morrises had a daughter who died in infancy. Reeling from the shock, they relocated to Wales for the first time, to the Watch House in Portmeirion, courtesy of their friend Clough Williams-Ellis. By the time Morris gave up her journalism two years later, and
MORRIS, JANE (1749 - 1833) - gweler MORRIS, WILLIAM
MORRIS, JOHN RICHARD (1879 - 1970), bookseller, writer Born 13 August 1879, son of Richard Morris, a quarryman, who died 6 March 1884 at Ebeneser, Llanddeiniolen, Caernarfonshire, and Jane his wife, who remarried. He attended Penisa'r-waun and Llanrug schools, though the Sunday school and the Band of Hope also played an important part in his education. At eleven years of age he went to work on his uncle's smallholding for two years, and after seven
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

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