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MORGAN, WILLIAM (1750 - 1833), actuary tables and important articles on the principles of life-insurance, and it was on his tables that another Welsh actuary, Griffith Davies founded his own. Morgan received the gold medal of the Royal Society in 1783, and was F.R.S. Like his uncle, he strongly opposed the swelling of the national debt, and he published six pamphlets on that matter. He edited Richard Price's works, with a biography. His son
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.
MORRIS, CAREY (1882 - 1968), artist wife wrote, and he made the illustrations for Taith y pererin, an adaptation of Pilgrim's Progress by Edward Tegla Davies. He died 17 November 1968 and was buried in Llandeilo churchyard.
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 to pay a debt of £5,000 to his patron Rees Goring Thomas and another debt of £500. It appears that in his later years he was paralysed (Innes, 22); during this period his parishioners were looked after by his curate, A. J. M. Green. He died 18 April 1867 at the age of 77. In 1818 he published two impressions of a pamphlet, Ymddiddan rhwng Senex a Juvenis, directed against David Davies of Pant-teg
MORRIS, EBENEZER (1769 - 1825), Calvinistic Methodist minister Born at Henbant, Lledrod, Cardiganshire, in 1769, the eldest son of David Morris (1744 - 1791) and Mary, his wife. 'In 1774 he moved with his father to Tredreyr parish where he was given a little education by Daniel Davies, the local curate. He opened his own school at Trecastle, Brecknock, c. 1786, and experienced a spiritual awakening under the ministry of the Methodist exhorter, Dafydd William
MORRIS, JOHN WILLIAM (1896 - 1979), lawyer and judge judicial figures in the 20th century (the two others being Lord Atkin and Lord Edmund-Davies). As a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, he was keenly interested in the development of public law. In the period in question, Lord Morris did not cease his extra-judicial work. He was still appointed to prepare reports and to chair committees, such as that on jury service in 1963. He resigned from his judicial post in
MORRIS, LEWIS (Llewelyn Ddu o Fôn; 1701 - 1765), poet and scholar grammatical and lexical studies, his patterns were John Davies of Mallwyd and Edward Lhuyd, and his immediate project was an enlargement of Davies's Dictionarium, which (as Morris very rightly said in 1761) was based on too limited a knowledge of the older poetry, seeing that Davies had been unable to command a sufficient range of older MS. texts. Morris, therefore, set to work to collect MSS. (or copies of
MORRIS, PERCY (1893 - 1967), politician and trade unionist and received the C.B.E. in 1963. Morris married (1) in 1920 Elizabeth, daughter of William Davies. She and Morris's sister and brother-in-law, were killed during the German bombing of Swansea in January 1941. He married (2) in 1956 Catherine Evans. His home was at 30 Lôn Cedwyn, Cwmgwyn, Swansea. He died 7 March 1967.
MORRIS, Sir RHYS HOPKIN (1888 - 1956), politician, stipendiary magistrate, first director of the Welsh Region B.B.C. Born 5 September 1888 at Blaencaerau farm, Caerau, Maesteg, Glamorganshire, son of John Morris (Congregational minister in Caerau) and Mary, daughter of Rhys Hopkin, Blaencaerau. He had one sister, Sarah, born in 1890. His parents died within three months of each other when he was 16 and he was then brought up by his uncle, another Rhys Hopkin. He was educated at home by his parents, the Cymmer
MORRIS, RICHARD (1703 - 1779), founder of the Cymmrodorion Society , was a favourite of his), and planned to publish Lewis Morris's Celtic Remains. This project came to naught, for Richard became a merchant in India, and is last heard of there in 1790 (see under William Jones,, 1675? - 1749, ad fin.). At some time before 7 November 1773 (when he made his will), Richard Morris had taken a fourth wife, a widow named Mary Major, of Stepney. There are indications that
MORRIS, RICHARD ROBERTS (1852 - 1935), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and poet son of William and Mary Morris of Rhyd-ddu, Caernarfonshire; born 20 June 1852 at Cae'r-gors, in the parish of Beddgelert, where he was brought up in his grand-father's home until he reached the age of 13. He was christened by Emrys (William Ambrose). When he was 21 years of age he was elected an elder at Rhyd-ddu, and in 1876 he was persuaded to enter the ministry. After a preliminary training

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