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MEREDITH, JOHN ELLIS (1904 - 1981), minister (Presbyterian Church of Wales) and author in philosophy in 1928 and then proceeded to study theology at Oxford University in 1928, where he was a member of Jesus College, sharing rooms with T. Rowland Hughes, who became a lifelong friend. J. E. Meredith served as Secretary of the Dafydd ap Gwilym Society and he made an important contribution to the Welsh life of the University and the city. He graduated in 1930 with Distinction and took
MEREDUDD ap RHYS (fl. 1450-1485), gentleman, cleric, and poet coveting his place in Valle Crucis abbey where he was spending his old age with the abbot, Dafydd ap Ieuan ap Iorwerth. We shall probably not be far off the mark if we attribute the period of his activity to the years 1440-50 to 1485. Meredudd ap Rhys won distinction not only as a poet but as a teacher of poets. It was he who taught Dafydd ab Edmwnd who later became the greatest authority of the 15th
MERRICK, RICE (bu farw 1586-7), landed gentleman, genealogist, and historian one by Dafydd Benwyn (Cardiff MS. 2, 277, 344-6) and the other by Sils ap Siôn ('Llyfr Hir Llanharan,' 319). His main interest was in the history of Glamorgan and he was assiduous in his search for documents of every kind, Latin and Welsh. In J. M. Traherne, Stradling Correspondence, 1840, 167-8, is a letter which he sent to Sir Edward Stradling of S. Donat's, which shows that these two historians
MORGAN, JOHN (bu farw 1504), clerk of parliament, and bishop David Mathew the elder of Radyr, with some of the best-known families in South Wales : the Herbert s; the family of Dafydd Gam; the Wogans; and the Dwnns - hence perhaps Ieuan Deulwyn's reference (The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, 1941, 122-3). But it should be noted that he was not the brother of Richard III's attorney-general, Morgan Kidwelly, who is often confused with
MORGAN, ABEL (1673 - 1722), Baptist minister Born at Allt-goch, Cwrtnewydd, in the parish of Llanwenog, Cardiganshire, in 1673, son of Morgan Rhydderch (who was elected deacon at Rhydwilym, 1668, and ordained to the office, 1669), brother of Enoch Morgan (1676 - 1740) (minister of the Welsh Tract Church, Delaware, U.S.A.), and nephew of Siôn Rhydderch, printer, Shrewsbury. He moved at an early age to the Abergavenny district and became a
MORGAN, DAFYDD SIENCYN (1752 - 1844), musician
MORGAN, DAVID (1814 - 1883), religious revivalist Born at Melin Bodcoll, between Devil's Bridge and Cwmystwyth, Cardiganshire, the third of nine children of Dafydd Morgans, miller and joiner, and Catherine his wife. The family moved three times before settling at Melin-y-lefel (which his father built), near Ysbyty Ystwyth, where he lived until his marriage. He learnt the trade of a joiner in his father's workshop. In 1842 he began to preach with
MORGAN, JOHN (1743 - 1801), cleric 1772 he succeeded Evan Evans (1731 - 1789) as curate of Llanberis (the rector of Llan-rug and Llanberis, Peter Bailey Williams resided at Llan-rug); his stipend was £24; he lived at Tŷ-isa, and kept a school at which David Thomas, Dafydd Ddu Eryri (1759 - 1822) was a pupil in 1774. Morgan became so celebrated as a preacher that people flocked to hear him from remote parts. When David Mathias, the
MORGAN, JOHN JAMES (1870 - 1954), minister (Presb.) and author biographies: Hanes Dafydd Morgan a Diwygiad '59 (1906); Cofiant Edward Matthews (1922); Cofiant Evan Phillips (1930); and Hanes Daniel Owen (1936). At the end of his life he published his autobiography and reminiscences in three interesting volumes (1948, 1949 and 1953), under the title A welais ac a glywais.
MORGAN, JOHN JENKYN (Glanberach; 1875 - 1961), local historian and essayist 25 November 1956 at a service in Bryn Seion chapel, Glanaman : she was a sister of the ministers, W. Glasnant Jones, Dafydd G. Jones and E. Aman Jones. They had 4 children. In an underprivileged age J.J. Morgan took advantage of every opportunity to develop his abilities. He was a cultured man and through his close friendship with Richard Williams ('Gwydderig'), he became a keen follower of
MORGAN(N), MAURICE (c. 1725 - 1802), Shakespearian commentator and political writer was descended from the ancient family of Morgan of Blaenbylan in the parish of Clydey, Pembrokeshire, who traced his ancestry, according to a pedigree by William Lewes the antiquarian (Bronwydd MS. 7170), to Llewelyn ap Gwilym of Cryngae (who was an uncle to Dafydd ap Gwilym) and Ednyfed Fychan. Fenton, who knew him and his brother William, states that he was brought up at the family home which
MORGAN, RHYS (c. 1700 - c. 1775), poet -house') in Blaen-gwrach; two persons bearing the name of Rees Morgan figure in the list of members in 1734, the one an elder and the other a deacon. But it is as a poet that he earned a name for himself in the annals of Glamorgan. He was, doubtless, trained in the bardic craft by one of the pupils of Edward Dafydd of Margam, but the man who probably influenced him most was Dafydd Lewys, Llanllawddog

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