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MICHAEL, GLYNDWR ('Major William Martin, RN'; 1909 - 1943), 'the man who never was' sisters had married and were living elsewhere) until her death in 1940. By 1942 he had moved to London, destitute, lonely and essentially homeless, where he died of poisoning 28 January 1943. During the previous months the British intelligence service had devised and were developing a daring deception: the body of a Royal Marine officer, Major William Martin, was to be washed up on a Spanish beach where
MICHAELIONES, THOMAS (1880 - 1960), priest and owner of a gold mine smallholding which he bought in the Mawddach valley. He owned the Graigwen Gold Fields from c. 1938 until their closure in 1953. His offer to provide gold for Princess Elizabeth's wedding ring in 1947 was accepted. He changed his name when he married (1), in 1916, Janet Chadwick (died 1940). They had three daughters and a son. He married (2) Constance Mary Weighill in 1942 and they had a daughter. He died 24
MORGAN, ALFRED PHILLIPS (1857 - 1942), musician Committee. He died 8 February 1942, and was buried in Builth cemetery.
MORGAN, DAVID EIRWYN (1918 - 1982), college principal and minister (B) moved to study theology in the Presbyterian College in Carmarthen in 1939, graduating B.D. in 1942. He went on to the Baptist College in Regent's Park, Oxford, gaining his second degree in theology in 1944, and on the 26 July of that year he was ordained minister of the Welsh Baptist church meeting in Pisga, Bancffosfelen. He married Mair Ellis Jones of Bancffosfelen in the Spring of 1953 and they had
MORGAN, ELAINE NEVILLE (1920 - 2013), screenwriter, journalist, and author generation of young writers and poets, notably Sidney Keyes (1922-1943), Drummond Allison (1921-1943) and John Heath-Stubbs (1918-2006), and was known to Kingsley Amis (1922-1995) and Philip Larkin (1922-1985). On graduation from Oxford in 1942, she began working for the Workers' Educational Association (WEA) as a tutor-organizer in Norfolk. During the 1943 summer vacation, she attended a Beds for
MORGAN, ELENA PUW (1900 - 1973), novelist, author of fiction and short stories for children Elena Puw Morgan was born on 19 April 1900 in Corwen, Meirionethshire, the daughter of the Revd Lewis Davies (1859-1934), a Congregationalist minister, and his wife Kate (née Ellis, 1868-1942). She was a bookish child, reading widely in English authors including Shakespeare, Shelley and Tennyson, as well as in Welsh literature. She was educated at Bala Girls' Grammar School, but poor health
MORGAN, HYWEL RHODRI (1939 - 2017), politician died from pneumonia in the winter of 1942. However, the rest of Rhodri's childhood was, as brother Prys recalls, 'full of laughter and jokes'. The Morgan siblings attended the council-run Radyr School. This marked them out from many of their contemporaries, who attended the Cathedral School - a private school in neighbouring Llandaff. It was at Radyr that the first signs of Rhodri's intellectual
MORRIS-JONES, JOHN HENRY (1884 - 1972), Liberal\/National Liberal politician February 1942 and May 1943. One of his reasons for resigning from the Liberal Nationals may have been a desire to have the freedom to criticise the government over its prosecution of the war, including the need to place war production under the direction of a single minister which Morris-Jones had urged in 1941. Morris-Jones, however, rejoined the Liberal Nationals in March 1943, presumably sensing or
MORTON, RICHARD ALAN (1899 - 1977), biochemist : its history and activities 1911-1969. Morton was a prolific author. His first volume, Radiation in Chemistry, was published in 1928 and in his second, Absorption Spectra of Vitamins, Hormones and Co-Enzymes (1942) he demonstrated the potential of absorption spectroscopy as a research tool. Between 1923 and 1978 he was author of a total of 282 papers, many with other scientists. His magnus opus is
MYRDDIN-EVANS, Sir GUILDHAUME (1894 - 1964), civil servant the War Cabinet Offices in 1941, and as adviser to the War Manpower Commission of the government of the U.S.A. in 1942. He also acted as adviser to the Canadian government. He returned to the Ministry of Labour and National Service as under-secretary in 1942 and deputy secretary in 1945. Between 1945 and 1959 he was the representative of the British government on the governing body of the
NAISH, JOHN (1923 - 1963), author and playwright fateful air of John's last novel That Men Should Fear. Meanwhile, his ability to replicate local idiom was attributed to his Welshman's musical ear. Naish took pride in his Welsh heritage, and allusion to the landscape and culture of Wales are scattered throughout his fictional works. On leaving school Naish engaged as an articled student with a chartered accountant. In May 1942 he enlisted in the Welsh
NICHOLAS, JAMES (1877 - 1963), Baptist minister Golders Green. Memorial services were held at Moreia, Tonypandy and at Castle Street on 18 July and at Ramoth, Cwmfelinmynach on 21 July 1963. He married 18 February 1936, Gertrude Thomas (née Crocker) of Epsom. She died on 9 December 1942.

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