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teulu MEYRICK Hascard, Fleet, Bush, Wigmore, The Pembrokeshire branch of the Meyricks of Bodorgan, Anglesey arose through the marriage of Rowland Meyrick, bishop of Bangor, to Catherine, daughter of Owen Barrett of Gelliswic, Pembrokeshire. Their eldest son, Sir GELLY (GILLY, GILLIES or GULLIAM) MEYRICK (1556? - 1601), was named after the maternal estate, and on his father's death (when he was c. 9 years old) was sent to be brought up on
MILLS, JOHN (Ieuan Glan Alarch; 1812 - 1873), Calvinistic Methodist minister, writer and musician Grandson of Henry Mills. He went to work in his father's woollen factory at the age of 13, reading widely in his spare time. He gave instruction in the elements of music in the Musical Society of Llanidloes. In 1838 he visited Carmarthenshire, Cardiganshire, Glamorganshire, Liverpool, and Anglesey, lecturing on music and temperance and founding musical societies, and published in that year his
MORGAN, CHARLES LANGBRIDGE (Menander; 1894 - 1958), drama critic, novelist, playwright The River Line (1949) was produced at the Edinburgh Festival in 1952. He lived most of his life in London. Possibly his closest connections with Wales came through his wife, Hilda Campbell Vaughan of Builth Wells, a novelist whom he married 6 June 1923 and by whom he had a son Roger and daughter (the Marchioness of Anglesey). His first play The Flashing Stream (1938) was written during a holiday
MORGAN, DAFYDD SIENCYN (1752 - 1844), musician . He began to conduct music classes and, relinquishing his position in the parish church, he paid a visit, extending over several months, to North Wales; it is known that he stayed at Machynlleth, Dolgelley, Bangor, and in Anglesey. Afterwards he went to various places in Glamorganshire and Monmouthshire. He became a member of Capel Isaf Congregational church, Llechryd, Cardiganshire, and was
MORGAN, DYFNALLT (1917 - 1994), poet, literary critic and translator seats and lacklustre singing in his old chapel, and the poem is arguably one of the most striking creative responses to the process of secularization and Anglicization which was experienced in the South Wales valleys in the first half of the twentieth century. The verse drama Rhwng Dau, which won him the crown at the National Eisteddfod in Anglesey in 1957, has a similar theme, namely the border
MORGAN, ELIZABETH (1705 - 1773), gardener 3,000 acre estate on the Isle of Anglesey, on 3 August 1732 at Kingsland church. Close ecclesiastical ties had long existed between the dioceses of Bangor and Hereford. Henry was the son of a Chancellor of Bangor and the grandson of Robert Morgan, Bishop of Bangor. Elizabeth's £2,000 marital settlement would have injected much needed funds to fulfil their combined aspirations for enhancing the estate
MORGAN, JENKIN (bu farw 1762), Independent minister the North, and as William Prichard had been driven to settle in Anglesey, he too went there. By that time the early concord between Independents and Methodists in North Wales (as elsewhere) had suffered some eclipse. An Independent church was formed, in 1744, at the house of a yeoman named John Owen, Caeau Môn, in Cerrig-Ceinwen parish, and Morgan was ordained as its pastor at Watford
MORGAN, ROBERT (1608 - 1673), bishop of Bangor additional Denbighshire living, which, on becoming prebendary of Chester (1 July 1642), he exchanged for Anglesey livings. By buying from the Bulkeley family the unexpired lease of the tithes of Llanddyfnan, Anglesey - which he later presented as an augmentation of the living - he retained this parish when he was extruded from his other preferments during the Interregnum, living with the Lloyd family of
MORGAN, WILLIAM (1801 - 1872), Baptist minister Cardigan. He then spent two years at Abergavenny College. Towards the end of 1824 he received a call to Holyhead and was ordained 18 April 1825 - the first Baptist to be ordained in Anglesey; there, he was unequalled except by Christmas Evans. He was, says Robert Jones (1806 - 1896) of Llanllyfni, as able as John Elias, but not as lucid. He joined issue with other able men in Y Bedyddiwr, wrote an elegy
MORRIS, CAREY (1882 - 1968), artist obtained a commission in the South Wales Borderers. He suffered from the effects of gas in Flanders and his health was impaired for the rest of his life. He claimed descent from the Morris family of Anglesey (John, Lewis, Morris, Richard, and William Morris), and one of his interests after the war was the issue of art and craft at the National Eisteddfod. He saw the need for reforming the Gorsedd
MORRIS, LEWIS (Llewelyn Ddu o Fôn; 1701 - 1765), poet and scholar Eldest son of Morris ap Rhisiart Morris, and brother of Richard, William, and John Morris; born in 1701 (christened 2 March 1700/1) in the parish of Llanfihangel Tre'r Beirdd, Anglesey. Like his brothers, he learnt his father's craft; it would appear from his own words that he had little formal education, but in view of the attainments he displayed later, this may well be doubted. In his twenties
MORRIS, RICHARD (1703 - 1779), founder of the Cymmrodorion Society Born 2 February 1702-3 at Y Fferem, Llanfihangel-tre'r-beirdd, Anglesey, son of Morris ap Rhisiart Morris and brother of Lewis, William, and John Morris. He worked at first in his father's workshop, and we have (in his own hand) a list of implements made there by him at 15. According to the papers of the late Iolo A. Williams, Richard went to London on 1 August 1722 and his brother Lewis on 7 May

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