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MORRIS, RICHARD ROBERTS (1852 - 1935), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and poet
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, ROGER (fl. 1590) Coed-y-talwrn, Llanfair Dyffryn Clwyd, transcriber of manuscripts Nothing is known of his private life. He wrote an exceptionally neat hand, and he had opportunities to copy some of the older Welsh manuscripts, e.g. the ' Black Book of Carmarthen ' and the ' White Book of Rhydderch,' possibly through friendships with Jasper Griffith. His interests were wide and there remain of his transcription collections of lives of saints (Llanstephan MS 34), a botanology
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
MORTON, RICHARD ALAN (1899 - 1977), biochemist spectroscopic methods to biological problems. In 1924, Morton was appointed a special lecturer in spectroscopy. In 1926, he married Myfanwy Heulwen Roberts, one of his childhood friends in Garston Chapel, and they had one daughter, Gillian (Lewis) who became a fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford. In 1930, Morton was awarded the Meldola Medal by the Chemical Corporation for his outstanding work on the
MOSES, EVAN (1726 - 1805) Trevecka, a tailor Born in June 1726 at Aberdare, he joined the Trevecka Family in 1752, and was Harris's right-hand man till 1773. With Evan Roberts (1718 - 1804) and James Pritchard (who left in 1774), he was one of the three trustees appointed by Harris; his special charge was the religious life of the Family, and he also itinerated throughout Wales to recruit new members. He was an honest but crotchety man, of
MOSS, GWENFRON (1898 - 1991), missionary in China and India . For a time, she found work with the Young Women's Christian Organization. At the end of the war, however, the opportunity came to return to China. She sailed in May 1946 from Liverpool to India, and travelled onwards by plane to China, arriving at Tianjin in August of the same year. She was to work at the Roberts Memorial Hospital in Tsangchow, which had been since 1947 in an area governed by the
teulu MOSTYN Mostyn Hall, Surrey and lord of Chirk. Ieuan's son, HYWEL AP IEUAN, followed the fortunes of the house of Lancaster; his kinsman, Jasper Tudor, sought refuge at Mostyn in 1464. Hywel's wife was Margaret, daughter and heiress of Gloddaeth. Their son, RICHARD AP HYWEL, inherited Gloddaeth and Tre'r Garnedd by right of his mother. He presided at the first Caerwys eisteddfod (1523); with him were Sir William Griffith
MUTTON, Sir PETER (1565 - 1637), judge and politician surviving personal letters written in the Welsh language, in which he explains to his mother the considerations which have led to his precipitate marriage to a well-endowed orphan girl. The letter has some historical importance, since it is written in a period when the Welsh gentry were becoming anglicized. By the will of his uncle, Edward Griffith of Llannerch, who died in 1601, Mutton inherited most of
teulu NANNEY Nannau, on very bad terms with the Llwyn family, with the Lloyd family of Rhiwaedog, with the Owen family of Hengwrt, and these ill-wishers were joined by his own blood-relations of Cefndeuddwr (his great sin, it was said, was the pushing forward of his son Griffith, in 1593, as Member of Parliament for Merioneth against John Lewis Owen of Llwyn). His enemies concentrated on the charge that Huw Nannau had
NANNEY, RICHARD (1691 - 1767), Evangelical cleric circulating schools of Griffith Jones (at Clynnog the school was often held in the parish church, at other times in distant houses on the borders); many of his letters occur in Welch Piety, all testifying to the value of education and some containing good suggestions regarding the lessons to be given, and some loud in their praises of the old schoolmaster Thomas Gough (as Gough had at one time been the
NELSON, ROBERT (1656 - 1715), non-juror, supporter of the S.P.C.K., and philanthropist Born in London 22 June 1656, son of John Nelson, a wealthy Turkey merchant, and his wife Delicia, daughter of Lewis Roberts the writer on commerce. Robert Nelson was, therefore half Welsh, and it was appropriate that one of his works, A Companion for the Festivals and Fasts of the Church of England (1704 - reprinted at least thirty-six times), should have been translated into Welsh in 1712 by

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