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MATTHEWS, ABRAHAM (1832 - 1899), minister (Congl.) and one of the pioneers of the Welsh settlement in Patagonia Born at Llanidloes, Montgomeryshire, November 1832, son of John Matthews, weaver, and Ann Jones, but brought up by Edward and Ann Lewis, farmers living nearby who moved to Blaencwmlline, in the parish of Cemaes. At 12 years of age he was apprenticed to a factory in Cwmlline for three years, becoming a craftsman working around Montgomeryshire and south Merionethshire. When 22 years old he decided
MATTHEWS, EDWARD (1813 - 1892), Calvinistic Methodist minister and author Richard (Thomas Richard) appeared in 1863, and he was joint author of Cofiant J. Harris Jones John Harris Jones, 1886. He edited two volumes of sermons by Morgan Howells in 1858 and 1869, and two volumes of Thomas Richards's sermons (1866-7). He was a frequent contributor to Y Traethodydd, Y Drysorfa, and Y Cylchgrawn, and a volume containing his articles to these periodicals was published under the
MATTHEWS, JOHN HOBSON (Mab Cernyw; 1858 - 1914), Roman Catholic historian, archivist and solicitor ), and edited Martin Cock's Guide to St. Ives (St. Ives, 1906). He had previously prepared Yr Hen grefydd a'r grefydd newydd. Sef dadl … am yr Eglwys Gatholig … Wedi ei gyfieithu i'r Gymraeg gan … J. H. Jones (Cardiff, 1889), and The Life and Memorials of Saint Teilo (Preston, 1893). He contributed to the transactions of societies, e.g. Cardiff Naturalists Society (see Transactions, xxxiii, for a study
MATTHEWS, MARMADUKE (1606 - 1683?), ejected minister the Court of High Commission, but he emigrated to America [in 1638; he was pastor at Yarmouth, 1640, and at various other places in New England.] In [ 1654 ] he returned at the request of colonel Philip Jones, and became minister of S. John's, Swansea. He was ejected from the living in 1662. He took out a licence to preach under the Act of Indulgence, describing himself as an Independent. He died
teulu MAURICE Clenennau, Glyn (Cywarch), Penmorfa married (1) John Jones, Wern, Penmorfa - see Wynn family of Peniarth; and (2) Ellis Anwyl, Parkie, Caernarfonshire Sir William Maurice was succeeded at Clenennau by his grand-daughter, ELLIN MAURICE (1578 - 1626), heiress of Clenennau, Porkington, and Llanddyn, daughter of William Wynn Maurice (who had died in 1568, i.e., before his father, Sir William Maurice), and Mary, daughter of John Lewis, Chwaen
MAURICE, DAVID (1626 - 1702), cleric and translator . [See close of article on William Jones, died 1679 ].
MAURICE, HUGH (1775 - 1825), skinner, and transcriber of Welsh manuscripts volumes of transcripts by Hugh Maurice and Owen Jones (B.M. Add. MSS. 31062-31110). His contribution to The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales was acknowledged in the preface, 1801. He was the author of the best poem on the subject set for competition by the Gwyneddigion Society in 1804-5, but as he did not divulge his name within the period set by the rules, the medal was presented to David Owen (Dewi Wyn o
MAURICE, ROWLAND JONES, translator of Nennius - gweler MAURICE, HUGH
MAURICE, Sir WILLIAM (1542 - 1622), politician surname, spent much of his life in the effort to extend and consolidate this estate, a task involving him in constant litigation and frequent turbulence. His three marriages helped in the process, the first, to Margaret Wyn Lacon (Lakyn or Lake), aet. 14, bringing in the Shropshire estate of Porkington (now Brogyntyn) to which she was heiress. During Elizabeth's later years the civil and military
McGRATH, MICHAEL JOSEPH (1882 - 1961), Archbishop college in that town. During his stay in Aberystwyth, Michael McGrath followed courses in Welsh literature given by Thomas Gwynn Jones in the university college, and they became close lifelong friends. In 1935, on the death of Bishop Francis Vaughan, Michael McGrath was appointed Bishop of Menevia. He was consecrated on 24 September of that year. On the death of Archbishop Mostyn, the man who had
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
MEILYR BRYDYDD (fl. c . 1100-1137), chief court-poet -Jones noted a chronological difficulty in accepting as the work of Meilyr Brydydd the elegy to Trahaearn ap Caradog and Meilyr ap Rhiwallon who were slain at Mynydd Cam (1081). The only other remaining poems by him are the elegy to Gruffudd ap Cynan (1137) and the poet's own death-bed lament. In the former, as Sir J. E. Lloyd observed, we have the earliest extant expression in Welsh poetry of the

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