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LLYWELYN ap MOEL Y PANTRI (bu farw 1440) Llanwnnog, poet 16B, NLW MS 1553A, NLW MS 6681B, NLW MS 8330B. They include poems to Watcyn Fychan of Hergest, Dafydd Llwyd Fychan of Hafod Wen, Gruffudd ap Meredudd of Aberriw, Edward ap Hywel ab Ieuan Llwyd, etc.
LLYWELYN GOCH ap MEURIG HEN (fl. c. 1360-1390), poet One of the last of the 'Gogynfeirdd,' and a native of Merioneth. A large number of his poems are preserved in MSS., including a religious poem, poems addressed to Dafydd ap Cadwaladr of Bachelldref, Goronwy ap Tudur of Penmynydd, and to the South Walians - Hopcyn ap Tomas of Ynys Dawy, Llywelyn Fychan and his brother Rhydderch, and Rhys ap Gruffudd ab Ednyfed. His elegy to Lleucu Llwyd (Lucy
LOUGHER, Sir LEWIS (1871 - 1955), industrialist and politician Born 1 October 1871, second son of Thomas Lougher of Llandaff, Glamorganshire, and Charlotte, daughter of David Lewis, a farmer of Radyr Farm, Radyr, Cardiff. His family was deeply rooted in Glamorganshire; his father came from Wenvoe and his paternal grandfather from Garn-llwyd, Llancarfan. He was educated in Cardiff Secondary School and Cardiff Technical College, and was apprenticed to corn
MACKWORTH, CECILY JOAN (1911 - 2006), writer, poet, journalist and traveller Sherborne School for Girls. She briefly attended a domestic science college (her mother's idea) before gladly taking up her aunt's suggestion to study journalism at the London School of Economics. This aunt was Margaret Haig Thomas, Lady Rhondda whose former husband was Sir Humphrey Mackworth, younger brother of Mackworth's father: he had been best man at her parents' wedding. Mackworth completed a two
MACKWORTH, Sir HUMPHREY (1657 - 1727), industrialist and parliamentarian Cardiff from 1765 to 1790, father and son thus having represented the same constituency for fifty-one years. But in 1790 he was forced to retire when the heir to earl Bute came of age and required the seat. Herbert Mackworth was created a baronet in 1776. His son, Sir ROBERT HUMPHREY MACKWORTH (1764 - 1794) died without issue.
MANSEL, BUSSY (1623 - 1699) Briton Ferry, parliamentary commander and Member of Parliament . L 104 (14 and 15 February 1669/70) refers to the working of a coal mine. L 149 shows that Bussy had married, as his second wife, an Anne, to whom he writes on 5 May 1678, requesting her to pay Sir Edward Mansell the sum of £62 ls. 6d., 'Sir Edward haveing allready disbursed soe much for me to my souldiers …' L 190 (16 August 1687) is a letter to him about timber bought of Sir Humphrey Mackworth, L
MEREDITH, THOMAS (fl. 1747-1770), Methodist exhorter, and Antinomian selected portions of the works of William Erbury and Morgan Llwyd, etc., collected by him, were published under the title A Scourge for the Assirian the great Oppressor (W. Laplain, Salop). His views are to be found in a book, An Illustration of Several Texts of Scripture, which includes several of his letters and which was published posthumously in 1770 from the same press. There is a mystical element
MEREDUDD ap RHYS (fl. 1450-1485), gentleman, cleric, and poet Gruffudd ap Madog Llwyd [ap Gruffudd] ap Iorwerth Foel ap Iorwerth Fychan ab Iorwerth Hen … ap Rhys Sais … ap Tudur Trefor. Other manuscripts connect his great-grandfather, Madog Llwyd of Plas Nanheudwy, and his father Rhys ap Gruffudd, with Plas Halchdun - Halkyn near Chirk probably. But Meredudd lived at Ruabon in Welsh Maelor, where he was the parish priest - in 1430, according to the historian of the
MEREDYDD LLWYD Glynllifon (fl. c. 1413-1456) - gweler GLYN
MEURIG LLWYD Llwyn-y-maen - gweler LLOYD, EDWARD
teulu MORGAN Tredegar Park, ). By this will he named MILES MORGAN, the son of his illegitimate brother JOHN, as his heir. Miles Morgan in 1571 married Catherine, the daughter of ROWLAND MORGAN (living in 1580) of Machen, the eldest son of Thomas, the second son of Sir John Morgan. In 1578 Miles Morgan joined his friend, Sir Humphrey Gilbert, on an ill-fated colonizing expedition to America, in which he was given command of the
MORGAN, DAVID (1814 - 1883), religious revivalist the Calvinistic Methodists and was ordained at the Association at Trefîn, 20 May 1857. In the following year he came in contact with Humphrey R. Jones, who had recently returned from the United States of America deeply influenced by a religious revival which had swept that country, and who had already kindled the flame of revival in north Cardiganshire. Morgan joined him in his campaign, and under

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