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MORRIS, DAVID (1630 - 1703), Roman Catholic priest and informer April 1654, and went to England on 1 May 1655. Little is known of his career for the next twenty years. He was a member of the Chapter of secular priests in 1677, and in spite of his activities still belonged to it in 1684, when he was said to be archdeacon of Northamptonshire, Huntingdonshire, and Cambridgeshire. In 1680, at the time of the Popish Plot, Morris was brought over from Flanders through
MORRIS, EDWARD (1607 - 1689) Perthi Llwydion, Cerrig-y-drudion, poet and drover Eldest son of Morris ab Edward; he was christened 1 October 1607. He was married and had many children, one of them being David Morris, parish priest and schoolmaster of Capel Garmon (1685-1709). He died in 1689 while following his calling, and was buried somewhere in Essex; five of his contemporaries wrote elegies to his memory. He was one of the best poets of the second half of the 17th century
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, PERCY (1893 - 1967), politician and trade unionist and received the C.B.E. in 1963. Morris married (1) in 1920 Elizabeth, daughter of William Davies. She and Morris's sister and brother-in-law, were killed during the German bombing of Swansea in January 1941. He married (2) in 1956 Catherine Evans. His home was at 30 Lôn Cedwyn, Cwmgwyn, Swansea. He died 7 March 1967.
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
MORRIS, ROBERT DAVID (1871 - 1948), itinerant bookseller and author them with his vision of a more just world. He married (1) Elizabeth Roberts, of Nant, Coed-poeth, who died in 1906; and (2) Elizabeth Hughes of Blaenau Ffestiniog. He died 1 August 1948, at the age of 77, and was buried in the Coed-poeth public cemetery.
MORRIS, ROBERT PRYS (1831? - 1890), local historian and antiquary; a writer in Welsh and English journals (see, e.g. an article by him in Y Traethodydd, xliv) and a temperance advocate. He is remembered for his Cantref Meirionydd, published at Dolgelley in 1890 a few weeks after the death, on 1 March that year, of the author. In its time it was a most useful work, scholarly and painstaking according to the standard then prevailing; it continues to prove a work to which reference can be made.
MORRIS, ROGER (fl. 1590) Coed-y-talwrn, Llanfair Dyffryn Clwyd, transcriber of manuscripts (NLW MS 4581B), heraldic, genealogical, and historical texts in Welsh and English (Mostyn 113, Peniarth MS 168), poetry (Llanstephan MS 9, NLW MS 1553A), the Mabinogion and romances (Mostyn 135), grammars (Peniarth MS 169), and anecdotes and miscellanea (Llanwrin 1). It is obvious from references by other copyists that all his work has not survived. A notable feature of his writing is that he adopted
MORRIS, WILLIAM (1705 - 1763), botanist, antiquary, letter-writer during his lifetime. He married (1745) Jane, daughter and heiress of Robert Hughes of Llanfugail (J. E. Griffith, Pedigrees, 41); she died 1 May 1750, and Morris remained a widower. A son and a daughter survived him. The (elder) son, ROBERT MORRIS, born 9 March 1746, married Jane Parry, a widow, of the Bulkeley of Brynddu family (J. E. Griffith, op. cit., 33), sold his share of the Llanfugail estate
MOSES-EVANS, DAVID LEWIS (1822 - 1893), poet and schoolmaster Born 1 May 1822 at Cwm-pib, Cribyn Clotas, near Lampeter. He was of the same family as David Davis, Castellhywel. At the age of 12 Moses moved to Blaenbidernyn near Pencarreg. Some five years afterwards, he opened a school on his own account in Pencarreg and later at Rhydcymerau, Brynaman, and Cwm-twrch. He finally returned to Brynaman where he became employed as a clerk in the local iron works
teulu MOSTYN Mostyn Hall, , Holywell, to her; the queen wrote to Sir Roger requesting him to arrange for her wishes in the matter to be carried out. Sir Roger died at Mostyn, 4 October 1690. He had married (1), c. July 1642, Prudence, daughter of Sir Martin Lumley, (2) Mary, eldest daughter of Thomas, viscount Bulkeley, of Baron Hill, Anglesey, and (3), Lumley, eldest daughter of George Coetmor of Coetmor. His heir, Sir THOMAS
MYTTON, JOHN (1796 - 1834), sportsman and eccentric died in the King's Bench debtors' prison, London, 29 March 1834. He married (1) Harriet Emma, daughter of Sir Tyrwhitt Jones, who died 1820, and (2) Caroline Mallet Giffard, who left him.

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