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MATTHEWS, JOHN (1773 - 1848), surveyor and public man Wales. He was a devoted member of the Calvinistic Methodist connexion and a most frequent attendant at the Association meetings. Towards the end of his life he served on a number of connexional committees. He died 9 January 1848. Matthews married Elin, of Tros-y-wern, near Mold, and their son JOHN MATTHEWS (1808 - 1870) became a surveyor, a shop-keeper, mayor of Aberystwyth, and a close friend of
MATTHEWS, JOHN HOBSON (Mab Cernyw; 1858 - 1914), Roman Catholic historian, archivist and solicitor
MATTHEWS, NORMAN GREGORY (1904 - 1964), chancellor Born 12 February 1904 at Swansea, only son of William John and Agnes Amelia Matthews. He was educated at the Grammar School, Swansea, Jesus College Oxford where he held a Meyricke Exhibition, and gained B.A. (2nd-class hons. Theology, 1926, M.A. 1930), St. Stephen's House Theological College, Oxford, 1926. He was ordained deacon, 1927, served as curate of St. Dyfrig, Cardiff, 1927-35, and was
teulu MAURICE Clenennau, Glyn (Cywarch), Penmorfa The careers of Sir William Maurice and colonel Sir John Owen are dealt with separately; here only a very general survey of the family is attempted. Sir John Wynn says in his The history of the Gwydir family (and it should be remembered that Sir John's ancestors came from Eifionydd, which is the south-eastern part of Caernarvonshire): 'You are to understand that in Evioneth there were two sects or
MAURICE, HENRY (1634 - 1682), Independent minister preached in several unlicensed houses; towards the end of the same month he undertook the famous journey to his native Llŷn, preaching again in unlicensed places, addressing multitudes in churchyards, and disappointed at not being allowed to enter the pulpits of the parish churches themselves. Naturally he visited his 'cousin' John Williams of Llangian (1627 - 1673) and Richard Edwards (died 1704), the
MAURICE, HUGH (1775 - 1825), skinner, and transcriber of Welsh manuscripts the president, Thomas Roberts, Llwyn-rhudol, and the recorder, John Jones ('Jac Glan-y-gors') were at the wedding. He later resided at Greenwich, Pengwern (Ffestiniog), Tremadoc, and Plâs Gwyn, Llan-rug, where he died 18 March 1825. He was buried at Llanfihangel Glyn Myfyr. An excellent penman, he was also an amateur artist. One of his early transcripts, poems by Gwalchmai, is written in 'bardic
MAURICE, Sir WILLIAM (1542 - 1622), politician , John Owen of Bodsilin, Anglesey, was the mother of Sir John Owen (1600 - 1666), heir to Clenennau and William Owen (1607 - 1670), heir to Porkington.
MAURICE, WILLIAM (bu farw 1680), antiquary and collector of manuscripts The son of Lewis Maurice, who descended from the Moeliwrch family in Llansilin, by Jane, daughter of John Holand, vicar of Guilsfield (1586-1639), he spent his life at Cefn-y-braich or Ty Newydd in Cynllaith, Llansilin. It is said that he erected a building of three stories, locally known as ' the Study,' to house his library.He had sufficient means to collect books and manuscripts, to employ
McLUCAS, CLIFFORD (1945 - 2002), artist and theatre director in 1968 and continued to work on architectural projects. Between 1972-74 he worked intermittently as a forester apprenticing himself to a master carpenter and became a skilled and inventive craftsman. In 1974 he moved to Tre-groes, Ceredigion with his partner and young family. They had three sons, Jesse, Joseph and John. He worked as a carpenter on self-employed projects and began to learn Welsh
MEADOWS, JOSEPH KENNY (1790 - 1874), draughtsman christened at S. Mary's, Cardigan, 1 November 1790, second son of James Meadows. His career is not recorded until 1823 when he was responsible for some of the illustrations in The Mirror of the Stage, and the lithographs used in Planché's Costume of Shakespere's Historical Tragedy of King John. He achieved popularity with The Heads of the People or Portraits of the English, 1838-40, to which W. M
MERCER, JOHN (1893 - 1987), cricketer
MEREDITH, BENJAMIN (1700 - 1749), Baptist minister a place near the chapel and later, when his health deteriorated, in his own home. His translation into Welsh of John Bunyan's Jerusalem Sinner Saved was published in 1721, with a second edition in 1765. He died in December 1749.

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