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LLOYD-JONES, DAVID MARTYN (1899 - 1981), minister and theologian English-language side of its work. An annual ministers' conference was held at Bryn-y-groes, Y Bala, one of the residential centres owned by the Movement, and 'the Dr' was always the main speaker at the end of each conference. His greatest Welsh heroes were Howel Harris, Daniel Rowland and William Williams Pantycelyn. For him, Williams's hymns were a powerful combination of biblical theology and the
LLOYD-JONES, JOHN (1885 - 1956), scholar and poet lost none of those characteristics which his Welsh Nonconformist background had given him. He was one of the chief supporters of the Welsh Presbyterian chapel in Dublin till its closure. He married Freda Williams of Bangor in 1922. He died 1 February 1956 and he was buried in Bryn-y-bedd, Dolwyddelan.
LLWYD o'r BRYN - gweler LLOYD, ROBERT
LLWYD, MORGAN (1619 - 1659), littérateur, poet, mystic the first Dissenting church in Wales, at Llanfaches, Monmouth. He served with the Parliamentary forces during the first and second Civil Wars, and was deeply influenced by the tenets of the fifth monarchy men. In 1647 he settled at Wrexham, with his home at Bryn-y-ffynnon, and ministered to the 'gathered church' of that town. He was appointed an 'Approver' under the 1650 Act for the Propagation … of
LLYWELYN ap GRUFFYDD (bu farw 1282), Prince of Wales and the conclusion of the peace of Woodstock with Henry III in 1247, he had for eight years to share with Owen a much diminished realm west of the Conway. But by his victory over Owain and a younger brother, Dafydd, at Bryn Derwin, in 1255, he took the first step towards re-consolidating the undivided territorial power once exercised by Llewelyn I. Between 1256 and 1267 he experienced a period of
LOUGHER, Sir LEWIS (1871 - 1955), industrialist and politician , and lived for a long time in a mansion called Dan-y-bryn, Radyr (now the Cheshire Homes), but about 1939 he and his unmarried sister Charlotte Lougher moved to live nearby in Northlands, Radyr, where he died 28 August 1955.
MACDONALD, GORDON (first Baron MACDONALD of GWAENYSGOR), (1888 - 1966), politician , Oxford. In 1920 he was elected a member of the Wigan Board of Guardians of which he was chairman in 1929, and he became president of Bryn Gates Co-operative Society, 1922-24. In 1924 he was elected Miners' Agent for Lancashire and Cheshire in the Mineworkers Federation of Great Britain, a post which he held until he was elected M.P. (L) for Ince, Lancashire, in 1929. He showed energy and balanced
MATTHEWS, DANIEL HUGH (1936 - 2020), Baptist minister and college principal Hugh Matthews was born on 25 October 1936 at 6 Heol Bryn-gelli, Treboeth, Swansea, the second of two sons of Daniel Eustis Matthews (d. 1975), coal miner and road worker, and his wife Annie Ada (née Phillips, d. 1994). His elder brother, Thomas Kenneth, was born in 1930. The family church was Caersalem Newydd, whose minister, the Revd W. H. Rowlands, had a formative influence on Hugh as a young
MAURICE, WILLIAM (bu farw 1680), antiquary and collector of manuscripts Welsh laws which his cousin Meredith Lloyd of Bryn Elen gave him (Wynnstay MS. 36). He transcribed a considerable body of Welsh poetry, and made a pioneer study of the texts of the Welsh laws in his ' Deddfgrawn ' or ' Corpus Hoelianum ' (Wynnstay MSS. 37-8) in 1660-3. He was interested in the early history of Wales and the Celts. He wrote a letter on Brennus to Robert Vaughan in 1662 (Wynnstay MS. 12
MORGAN, DAVID EIRWYN (1918 - 1982), college principal and minister (B) David Eirwyn Morgan was born on 23 April 1918 in Bryn Meurig, Heol Waterloo, Pen-y-groes, Carmarthenshire, one of the four children - 3 sons and 1 daughter - of David and Rachel Morgan. His father worked in the local colliery, but the family worshipped in Saron, the Welsh Baptist church in Llandybïe, and it was there that Eirwyn was baptised by the Reverend Richard Lloyd, and there also that he
MORGAN, DAVID JENKINS (1884 - 1949), teacher and agricultural officer history and traditions. He gained the deep affection and trust of farmers. His vehicle, a Morgan three-wheeler, was a familiar sight along the highways and most remote by-ways of the county. His influence on the county's agriculture was enormous. His weekly essays in The Welsh Gazette under the title ' Pant a bryn ' are a valuable source on the development of agriculture and social life in Cardiganshire
MORGAN, JOHN JENKYN (Glanberach; 1875 - 1961), local historian and essayist 25 November 1956 at a service in Bryn Seion chapel, Glanaman : she was a sister of the ministers, W. Glasnant Jones, Dafydd G. Jones and E. Aman Jones. They had 4 children. In an underprivileged age J.J. Morgan took advantage of every opportunity to develop his abilities. He was a cultured man and through his close friendship with Richard Williams ('Gwydderig'), he became a keen follower of

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