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MORRIS, RICHARD (1703 - 1779), founder of the Cymmrodorion Society 'four very hard years,' but things were beginning to improve - Meyrick of Bodorgan had made him a small loan and had promised to do something for him; indeed, he had a four months' job as parliamentary clerk; we know also (Llawysgrif Richard Morris o Gerddi, cxx) that he was a Welsh interpreter in the law-courts. In 1742, his brother William's friend Thomas Ellis (1711/12 - 1792) got the bishop of
MORRIS, ROBERT (bu farw 1768), industrialist South Wales, 134) near 'the Clase,' to house forty families of their workpeople, with a shoemaker and a tailor for their service; but it is to John Morris that the tourist-books (e.g. John Evans, Malkin, Wood) unanimously ascribe the building of the village of Morriston - said to have been planned by the minister and bridge-builder William Edwards (1719 - 1789) of Eglwysilan. John Morris was made a
MORRIS, ROBERT DAVID (1871 - 1948), itinerant bookseller and author Born at Nant, Coed-poeth, Denbighshire, 18 December 1871, the son of David and Hannah Morris. He left school early and went to work in a coalmine. After a few years as a collier, he opened a Welsh newspaper and book-shop in the High Street at Coed-poeth. In the 1920s he began to travel throughout north Wales, selling Welsh books which he collected from the Brython Press (Hugh Evans & Sons
MORRIS, ROGER (fl. 1590) Coed-y-talwrn, Llanfair Dyffryn Clwyd, transcriber of manuscripts the orthography of Dr. Gruffydd Robert, and under-dotted letters instead of doubling them. A number of his manuscripts had come into the possession of Thomas Evans, Hendreforfudd, by 1607.
MORRIS, THOMAS (1786 - 1846), Baptist minister written by Ll. Jenkins and T. Thomas in 1847.
MORRIS, THOMAS (1761 - 1831), bootmaker - gweler MORRIS, WILLIAM
MORRIS, WILLIAM (Rhosynnog; 1843 - 1922), Baptist minister Born 12 September 1843 at Tre-boeth, Swansea, son of David Morris. He started by training to become an engineer. He was educated at the Swansea academy (kept by G. P. Evans) and at Pontypool, and was ordained at Treorchy. He was secretary of the Welsh Baptist Union, 1879-98, and afterwards became its president. He was a promoter of cultural, temperance, and educational movements in the Rhondda
MORRIS, WILLIAM (1783 - 1861), Calvinistic Methodist minister Born in Church Street, Kilgerran, Pembrokeshire, in 1783, son of Thomas and Margaret Morris. THOMAS MORRIS (1761 - 1831) was the superintendent of the C.M. society which met in his house and, when he was getting on for middle age, began to preach in west Wales, while continuing to follow his trade as a country boot-maker. He died 17 October 1831. His son was also a boot-maker; he joined the
MORRIS, WILLIAM (1705 - 1763), botanist, antiquary, letter-writer the meantime (1742) he had declined the chief clerkship to the comptroller at Chester. Thus from 1737 till his death he was settled at Holyhead, where he was also an unofficial physician and in great demand as a consultant in legal and other business. His chief friend at Holyhead was the curate Thomas Ellis (1711/2 - 1792), up to Ellis's removal to Nutfield (1759); Morris was Ellis's choirmaster and
MORTON, RICHARD ALAN (1899 - 1977), biochemist Peredur Jones, Jennie Thomas and others who were influential later in the life of the Welsh nation. Morton graduated with first class honours in Chemistry in 1922 and he then studied for his doctorate under Professor Edward Charles Cyril Baly (1871-1948), a pioneer in the application of spectroscopy in the field of chemistry. The influence of his co-researcher Selig Hecht (1892-1947) led Morton to apply
MORUS BERWYN (fl. c. 1553-1615), poet A native, apparently, of the Berwyn district of North Wales. A number of his poems remain in manuscripts. Most of these are addressed to various members of North Wales families, including John Salusbury of Lleweni and his wife Katheryn (of Berain), Sir William Morys of Clenennau, Robert Wyn of Foelas, Thomas Vaughan of Hafod, captain William Thomas. There are also a poem in praise of Bishop
MORYS, HUW (Eos Ceiriog; 1622 - 1709), poet lands in the commotes of Rhiwlas and Hafodgynfor, at the time of his marriage to Gwen, daughter of Thomas ap Llywelyn ap John of Rhiwlas. As far as we know the poet had two brothers, John, his senior (it appears that Huw made his home with him), and Humphrey, his junior. We have no proof that he received a better schooling than was the common lot of boys of his locality, though it is possible that he

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