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MILLS, RICHARD (Rhydderch Hael; 1809 - 1844), musician married John Pryse. His son, RICHARD MILLS (1840 - 1903), carried the family musical tradition into east Denbighshire. On his father's death the boy had been sent to his maternal grandfather at Newtown, but later he returned to Llanidloes as a staff-notation compositor in his stepfather John Pryse's printing office. He studied music diligently, won an eisteddfod prize for his hymn-tune ' Pen-dref,' and
MILLS-ROBERTS, ROBERT HERBERT (1862 - 1935), surgeon, and association football player Born 5 August 1862 at Ffestiniog, son of Robert Roberts, Plas-meini, manager of the Oakeley quarries. From the University College at Aberystwyth, he went up to S. Thomas's Hospital and qualified in 1887, becoming F.R.C.S. (Edin.) in 1893. When the South African War broke out, Mills-Roberts, then surgeon to the Llanberis quarry hospital, joined A. W. Hughes at the Welsh Hospital in South Africa
teulu MORGAN Tredegar Park, , late lord of Gwynllwg, thus proving that he was of full age and in full possession of his estates. PHILIP, the second son of Morgan ap Llywelyn, became the ancestor of the branch of Morgan of Langstone of which family the Morgan family of Llantarnam are an offshoot. Llywelyn ap Morgan was succeeded by his son, JEVAN, who was in turn succeeded by his son, Sir JOHN MORGAN, known as 'Y Marchog Tew.' Sir
MORGAN, JOHN (bu farw 1504), clerk of parliament, and bishop , who was the son of Morgan ap Jenkin ap Philip, grandson of Llywelyn ap Morgan of Tredegar (Dwnn, Heraldic Visitations, I, 21; H. T. Evans, Wales and Wars of Roses, 216-8). He was sometimes called 'Young' to distinguish him from another brother called John (Catal. MSS. in B.M. 248). If John Morgan the bishop was indeed the son of Morgan ap Jenkin he was linked through his mother, Joan, daughter of
MORGAN ap HUW LEWYS (fl. c. 1550-1600), poet entered in the list of jurors for 1586. Information remains concerning only one child of the poet - Elin, who married John Griffith of Madryn Isaf. His poetry, which remains in MSS., includes several religious and moral poems (cywyddau) and elegiac englynion to Huw ap Rhisiart of Cefn Llanfair in Llŷn (NLW MS 16B).
MORGAN ELFAEL (fl. c. 1528-1541), poet A number of his poems remain in manuscript including some written to members of South Wales landed families, Sir John Mathew of Radur (Radyr), Sioned, the daughter of Sir Thomas Philipps of Picton castle, and Lewys Gwynn of Tref Esgob. A number of his poems to Gruffudd Dwn (of Ystrad Merthyr) and his family are also found, two of them being in holograph (Llanstephan MS 40 (73, 74)). He was buried
MORGAN FYCHAN (bu farw 1288), lord of the Welsh barony of Avan Wallia (or Nedd-Afan) in the honour of Glamorgan son of Morgan Gam. Like his father he was a supporter of the North Wales princes. He may for a time have been deprived of Avan, for in 1282 he is described merely as lord of a half commote in Baglan. His son, LLEISION (died 1328), the first of the family to adopt the surname ' de Avene,' was certainly lord of Avan, being succeeded there in turn by his son and grandson, John and Thomas de Avene
MORGAN, Sir CHARLES (1575? - 1643?), soldier nobleman Philip de Marnix de Ste. Aldegonde (died 1598), William the Silent's coadjutor in the Netherlands Revolt. Their only child, ANN MORGAN (died 1687), came home and married (1) Sir Lewis Morgan of Rhiwpera, Monmouth (Member of Parliament for Cardiff, 1628, knighted 1629, died 1635), and (2) Walter Strickland, who became a Member of Cromwell's Council of State and ' Other House,' and (3) John
MORGAN, CLIFFORD (Cliff) ISAAC (1930 - 2013), rugby player, sports writer and broadcaster, media executive had provided Morgan with the opportunity to deliver the greatest ever passage of rugby union commentary: "Almost on the halfway line, Kirkpatrick, to Williams, this is great stuff, Phil Bennett covering. Chased by Alistair Scown, brilliant, oh that's brilliant! John Williams, Bryan Williams. Pullin, John Dawes - great dummy! David, Tom David - the halfway line - brilliant by Quinnell! This is Gareth
MORGAN, DAVID (1779 - 1858), Independent minister and historian where he joined John Jones, the shopkeeper, one of the pillars of the Independent church, at whose home on the very first night he met the Rev. John Roberts of Llanbryn-mair (1767 - 1834). Many years later, as a very old man, he used to say that the personality of that good man had changed the course of his life. He did not take kindly to a tradesman's life and within six months had returned home to
MORGAN, DAVID EIRWYN (1918 - 1982), college principal and minister (B) Society. Bedydd[:] Cred ac Arfer [Baptism: Belief and Practice] (1973) is an extended version of his Pantyfedwen Lecture, delivered in 1969. With John Hughes, Dolgellau, as music editor, he published a bilingual hymnal for young people entitled Mawl yr Ifanc. As well as editing the hymnal for the Baptist Union of Wales, he contributed thirteen translations of hymns. Two of these, together with a third
MORGAN, DAVID JENKINS (1884 - 1949), teacher and agricultural officer during the first half of the twentieth century. They were written in a lively style. A selection of these essays was published in Pant a bryn (1953). He married 7 July 1915, Annie, daughter of John and Jane Jones, Tŷ-llwyd, Brynmawr (originally from Swyddffynnon). He died suddenly on 18 May 1949 at Charing Cross Hospital, London. His body was cremated at Golders Green and his ashes were returned to

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