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MORGAN, WILLIAM (1623 - 1689), Jesuit Born 1623 at Cilcain, Flintshire, son of Henry Morgan and Winefrid Gwynne. He was educated at Westminster School and in 1640 went to Trinity College, Cambridge, according to Foley, although his name does not appear in the registers either of that college or of any other Cambridge college. After two years there, he is said to have been expelled for espousing the cause of king Charles. He was taken
MORRIS, EBENEZER (1790 - 1867), cleric became the wife of A. J. M. Green (who was at one time Morris's curate), the father of archbishop Charles A. H. Green - see G. M. Roberts, Bywyd a Gwaith Peter Williams, 164, 167. Morris married again in 1839. Morris was unquestionably a 'character.' He was a handsome, powerfully built man, a strong Protestant, and an exceedingly popular preacher in his prime - so much so that, on one occasion, the
MORRIS, JAN (1926 - 2020), writer Jan Morris was born on 2 October 1926 in Clevedon, Somerset, as James Humphry Morris, the youngest of three boys. Her father Walter Henry Morris (1896-1938) had been gassed in World War I, and made ends meet by driving taxis and hearses. Her mother Enid (née Payne; 1886-1981) was an organist and music teacher. Her two older brothers were Gareth Charles Walter (1920-2007), an internationally
MORRIS, THOMAS (1786 - 1846), Baptist minister Born 10 February 1786 in the parish of Llandeilo-fawr. Owing to the Arminianism of the congregation at Llandyfân, where he had become a member, he transferred to Cwmifor where, in 1803, he began to preach. He was married in 1809. He became minister of Penrhiw-goch (1810-7) where he added to the chapel and formed churches at Melingwm and Porth-y-rhyd. From 1817 to 1831 he was at Charles Street
MORRIS, VALENTINE (1727 - 1789), colonial administrator and landowner seventeen, Valentine Morris the younger went to Leyden, in accordance with his father's wish that he study there. However, he did not register there and instead entered Peterhouse College, Cambridge, the following year. In 1752, he married Mary Mordaunt, a niece of Charles Mordaunt, 3rd Earl of Peterborough (1658-1735), who was reputedly of great beauty, intelligence and taste, but little fortune. On his
MORTON, RICHARD ALAN (1899 - 1977), biochemist Peredur Jones, Jennie Thomas and others who were influential later in the life of the Welsh nation. Morton graduated with first class honours in Chemistry in 1922 and he then studied for his doctorate under Professor Edward Charles Cyril Baly (1871-1948), a pioneer in the application of spectroscopy in the field of chemistry. The influence of his co-researcher Selig Hecht (1892-1947) led Morton to apply
MOSSELL, AARON ALBERT (1863 - 1951), lawyer, mining engineer and civil rights campaigner Aaron Mossell was born on 3 November 1863 in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, into an African American family, the youngest of six children of Aaron Mossell, a brickmaker and grandson of enslaved people, and his wife Eliza Bowers Mossell. His siblings were: Charles W. (1849-1915), Mary E. (1853-1886), James (b. 1853), Nathan Francis (1856-1946) and Alvaretta (b. 1858). The family later moved to
teulu MOSTYN Mostyn Hall, marriage at Cilcain, Flintshire, spending also much of his time in London; he was knighted in 1623 at the instance of the duke of Buckingham. His eldest son was Sir ROGER MOSTYN (1623/4 - 1690), knight and baronet. Although he was only 19 years old when the Civil War broke out, he soon became a captain, and, within a few months, colonel, in the Royalist forces. Charles I also appointed him governor of
teulu MYDDELTON Gwaenynog, appointed a county assessment commissioner in 1647, but he was never a Welsh Member of Parliament (as stated in G.E.C., Baronetage, i, 209-10), nor was his son the ever-needy pensioner Sir HUGH MYDDELTON (3rd bart.), who was imprisoned in 1652 (when his relatives at Chirk bought him out), and again in 1659 for plotting on behalf of Charles II, and subsequently entered the service of the future James II
NEWCOME, RICHARD (1779 - 1857), cleric Born 8 March 1779 at Gresford, near Wrexham, of which his father was vicar from 1764 to 1803. Son of the Rev. Henry Newcome and Elizabeth his wife, and grand-nephew of Richard Newcome, bishop of Llandaff 1755-61 and of S. Asaph 1761-9, he was educated at Ruthin School and Queens' College, Cambridge, graduated B.A. (1800) and M.A. (1804), was ordained deacon in September 1801 by bishop Bagot and
NEWTON, LILY (1893 - 1981), scientist an MSc (1918) and a PhD which she gained in 1922. After a short period as an assistant lecturer at Bristol (1919-1920), she moved to Birkbeck College, University of London as a lecturer (1920-1923) with Professor Helen Gwynne-Vaughan (1879-1967). It was there that she met the pioneering cytologist William Charles Frank Newton (1894-1927). They married in 1925 and Lily moved to Norwich where Frank
NICHOLAS, THOMAS EVAN (Niclas y Glais; 1879 - 1971), poet, minister of religion and advocate for the Communist Party Charles Butt Stanton (1873-1946), a local man who had won the seat in succession to Keir Hardie. Stanton stood for the group called the National Democratic Party (NDP) and Nicholas was badly mistreated. He won 6,229 votes to Stanton's 22,824, a majority of 16,595. In Ceredigion T.E. Nicholas organised farmworkers into a Union and in 1918 he established the Labour Party in the county. He resigned from

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