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LLOYD-GEORGE of Dwyfor, 1st Earl - gweler LLOYD GEORGE, DAVID
LLOYD-JONES, DAVID MARTYN (1899 - 1981), minister and theologian came of the venture and he returned to Britain. Martyn travelled to London to meet his father and help him search for a business and a home, at the outbreak of the Great War. They saw Lloyd George, Asquith and Kitchener during their stay and those days proved particularly frightening for the young Martyn. By the end of September 1914, Henry Lloyd-Jones had bought a dairy business at 7 Regency Street
LLUELYN, MARTIN (1616 - 1682), poet and physician son of Martin Lluelyn of London; born 12 December 1616. His Welsh origin seems to be attested by his name. There is, besides, the description of his son George by Burney (History of Music, 1789, 3, 495 n.) as ' a Jacobitical, musical, and Welsh parson.' He was educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated (B.A. 1640 and M.A. 1643). In the Civil War he joined the
LOCKLEY, RONALD MATHIAS (1903 - 2000), farmer, naturalist, conservationist and author which Ann their daughter relates her life on the island: Early Morning Island or A Dish of Sprats (1939), featuring the Baron, George Henry Owen Harries, a colourful character who had served in the Boer War and from the late 1930s onwards lived with the Lockley family as a mechanic and handyman. An account of his life was written down by Lockley and published as A Pot of Smoke, 1940. During the first
teulu LORT Stackpole, GEORGE LORT came from Staffordshire to Pembrokeshire c. 1567 as steward of the Stackpole estate under Margaret Stanley; later on he bought the estate. His heir was his son ROGER LORT (1555? - 1613), sheriff in 1607; then came HENRY LORT (sheriff in 1619), who was said to have been deeply involved in smuggling on the Pembrokeshire coast. Henry had three sons: ROGER (who lived at Stackpole); JOHN
LOWE, WALTER BEZANT (1854 - 1928), antiquary Born at Islington, 3 January 1854. He went to Rugby (becoming head boy) and S. John's College, Cambridge, where he graduated in 1877 with a First (1876) in science, chiefly chemistry. From 1877 till 1879 he was on the Britannia as one of the tutors of the future king George V and his elder brother; later, he had a private school at Fareham. In 1904 he retired to Cae'r Carw, Llanfairfechan, where
MACLEAN, Sir EWEN JOHN (1865 - 1953), first professor of obstetrics and gynaecology at the Welsh National School of Medicine chairman of the Body during the height of the BMA's struggle with the Liberal government in 1911 over the introduction of the contentious National Health Insurance Bill which many in the medical profession regarded as a challenge to their status. Maclean, whose brother Donald was a prominent Liberal MP and a friend of David Lloyd George, was unfairly accused of being too lenient with the government in
MARTIN, Sir RICHARD (1843 - 1922), industrialist and public man , but in this he was not successful. He urged upon the Haldane Commission on Welsh university education (1916-18) the necessity of having a university college at Swansea which would specialize in technical education; it was founded in 1920, and when the foundation stone was laid by king George V, Martin was knighted. Besides obtaining a university college for his town, he was also responsible for
teulu MATHEW Castell y Mynach, descended the lines of Llandaff and Radyr frequently connected by inter-marriage. The influence of the stock developed after Bosworth under the protection of Sir Rhys ap Thomas, who married Janet Mathew. It declined after the death, in 1557, of Sir GEORGE MATHEW of Radyr, M.P., and sheriff. Other considerable figures in the political life of Glamorgan were the brothers Sir DAVID MATHEW of St. Fagans (died
teulu MATHIAS Llwyngwaren, Llwyn Gwaring, Llangwaren, Lamphey . Records, ii, 41-2); it becomes stabilized as a surname with THOMAS MATHIAS (died at the end of 1617 or the beginning of 1618) - his second wife, Ursula, was a daughter of the antiquary George Owen of Henllys, but the later Mathias families do not descend from her. With his son JOHN MATHIAS comes the shift from Clastir to Llwyngwaren; he was on the county Parliamentary Committee during the Civil War
MATTHEWS, EDWARD (1813 - 1892), Calvinistic Methodist minister and author sermons was published under the editorship of D. M. Phillips in 1927. He was also a distinguished author. His most popular work was his Hanes Bywyd Siencyn Penhydd (Jenkin Thomas), published in book form in 1850. Another similar work is George Heycock a'i Amserau, 1867. He drew largely on his imagination when writing both these books, which were avidly read by the country people. His Bywgraffiad Thomas
MAURICE, DAVID (1626 - 1702), cleric and translator , according to D. R. Thomas (A History of the Diocese of St. Asaph), bore ' not the shield of Owen Gwynedd nor of Einion Efell, but that of Cunedda Wledig.' David Maurice matriculated from Jesus College, Oxford, 3 June 1651. He graduated B.A. 1654/5, and M.A. 1657, from New College. He held the following ecclesiastical preferments - vicar of Llangernyw, 1662; rector of Cegidog S. George, Denbighshire, 1663

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