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MORGAN, WILLIAM GERAINT OLIVER (1920 - 1995), Conservative politician matters. He held regular constituency surgeries, usually in Denbigh's historic eighteenth-century town hall. In the general election of 1983, he lent support to the Plaid Cymru candidate. In 1984, deprived of his seat, he resigned from the Conservatives and joined the Liberal Party. In the 1989 European elections Morgan urged support for Dafydd Elis Thomas, the Plaid Cymru candidate. Yet he never
MORRIS, DAFYDD - gweler MORRIS, DAVID
MORRIS, DAVID (1744 - 1791), Calvinistic Methodist exhorter, and hymn-writer . The 'Marwnad i Rees Williams o Gauo' is also included in this collection, while his Marwnad ar Farwolaeth Llewelyn Dafydd o Blwyf Trecastell, etc., was published from the same press in 1783.
MORRIS, EBENEZER (1769 - 1825), Calvinistic Methodist minister Born at Henbant, Lledrod, Cardiganshire, in 1769, the eldest son of David Morris (1744 - 1791) and Mary, his wife. 'In 1774 he moved with his father to Tredreyr parish where he was given a little education by Daniel Davies, the local curate. He opened his own school at Trecastle, Brecknock, c. 1786, and experienced a spiritual awakening under the ministry of the Methodist exhorter, Dafydd William
MORRIS-JONES, Sir JOHN (MORRIS) (1864 - 1929), scholar, poet, and critic honours in mathematics in 1887. As a student he had read Welsh books and manuscripts in the Bodleian Library and had attended the lectures of John Rhys; he was also one of the original members of 'Cymdeithas Dafydd ab Gwilym,' which was established on 6 May 1886. Having held a scholarship to read Celtic, he was appointed, in January 1889, lecturer in Welsh at the University College of North Wales
MORUS ap DAFYDD ab IFAN ab EINION - gweler MORUS DWYFECH
MORUS DWYFECH (fl. c. 1523-1590), a poet wife, poems in reply to others by Huw Arwystl and also Wiliam Llŷn, one on Caernarvon town and another on Nevin. His will, in the form of a poem, expressed the poet's desire to be buried at Penllech, and, from the elegies composed to him by Siôn Phylip and Huw Pennant, it is evident that his wish was granted.
MORYS ap HYWEL (ap TUDUR) (fl. c. 1530), a poet no details are known concerning his life, although a number of his poems remain in manuscripts. They include a number on religious themes, and some addressed to Siôn Wyn of Y Tŵr (Mold), Edward Puleston of Emral, and Llywelyn ap Ieuan ap Hywel of Moelyrch.
MOSES-EVANS, DAVID LEWIS (1822 - 1893), poet and schoolmaster (Ioan Cunllo) for an ode to the memory of Daniel Evans (Daniel Ddu o Geredigion), his work being highly praised by Eben Fardd. He was known colloquially as Dafydd Moses but about 1860 he added the surname Evans after researching his family history, and this was the surname used by the 5 or 6 youngest of his 9 children, 4 sons and 5 daughters. Moses died 1 September 1893. His daughter Mary was the step
NICOLAS, DAFYDD (1705? - 1774), poet
OWAIN ap GRUFFYDD (fl. 1260), prince of Gwynedd eldest son of Gruffydd ap Llywelyn by Senena, and brother of Llywelyn ap Gruffydd. Some years a prisoner of his brother, Dafydd ap Gruffydd, Henry III secured to him a portion of Snowdonia by the treaty of Woodstock (1247). Again deprived by Llywelyn after Bryn Derwin (1254), he spent another long period in confinement, until Llywelyn was obliged to release him after the humiliating defeat of
OWAIN GWYNEDD (OWAIN GWYNEDD; c. 1100 - 1170), king of Gwynedd Church. By the former he had two sons, Iorwerth Drwyndwn and Maelgwn; and also two sons by Christina - Dafydd and Rhodri He had at least six other sons, of whom two, Hywel and Cynan, survived him, and two daughters, Angharad, wife of Gruffydd Maelor I, and Gwenllian, wife of Owain Cyfeiliog. As a young man during the decade 1120-30 he was associated with an elder brother, Cadwallon, in restoring the

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