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LLYWELYN ap GRUFFYDD (bu farw 1282), Prince of Wales serious blow, anticipating the wholesale desertions of 1277. Llywelyn's dissatisfaction over mounting difficulties along the border accounts for his repeated refusals from 1273-7 to observe treaty obligations as vassal of the new king - Edward I. Though it is unknown how serious were his grievances, he has been severely criticised for his intransigence and lack of caution, to say the least, in thus
LLYWELYN ap MOEL Y PANTRI (bu farw 1440) Llanwnnog, poet 16B, NLW MS 1553A, NLW MS 6681B, NLW MS 8330B. They include poems to Watcyn Fychan of Hergest, Dafydd Llwyd Fychan of Hafod Wen, Gruffudd ap Meredudd of Aberriw, Edward ap Hywel ab Ieuan Llwyd, etc.
LUMLEY, RICHARD (1810 - 1884), Calvinistic Methodist minister Born 23 October 1810, at Aberystwyth, eldest of the eleven children of Edward Lumley, builder. He was educated in the well-known school kept by John Evans (1796 - 1861) in that town, and afterwards in the little grammar school at Llanfihangel-genau'r-glyn - in both, Lewis Edwards was his fellow-pupil and the two became intimate friends. He began to preach in 1829 and opened a (not too successful
LYNN-THOMAS, Sir JOHN (1861 - 1939), surgeon theories were set forth by him in a book called The Key of All Wales. Much to his chagrin, however, his conclusions were not acceptable to professional archaeologists. In 1892 he married Mary Rosena, only daughter of Edward Jenkins, Cardiff. He died at Llwyndyrus, 21 September 1939.
MACKWORTH, CECILY JOAN (1911 - 2006), writer, poet, journalist and traveller died in action on the Western Front on 1 November 1914, two days after becoming a Major and less than a year after his second child was born. Cecily and her baby sister moved with their mother to Somerset. In 1922 Dorothy Mackworth married the equine artist Charles Edward Gatehouse. The family settled in Sidmouth, Devon. After a succession of governesses, Cecily Mackworth boarded for two years at
MACKWORTH, Sir HUMPHREY (1657 - 1727), industrialist and parliamentarian , notably Sir Edward Mansel of Briton Ferry and his Company of Mine Adventurers, which had been financed by very dubious means, became bankrupt in 1709. This matter was investigated in 1710 by a committee of the House of Commons, which declared Mackworth ' guilty of many notorious and scandalous frauds,' but he was saved by the fall of the Whig administration in that year. In 1713 he formed the Company of
MACLEAN, Sir EWEN JOHN (1865 - 1953), first professor of obstetrics and gynaecology at the Welsh National School of Medicine as registrar to the Chelsea Hospital for Women where he began his life's work in the discipline of obstetrics and gynaecology. In 1901 he was appointed senior honorary gynaecologist to the hospital then known as the Cardiff Infirmary (later to be known as the King Edward VII Hospital and, in 1923, as the Cardiff Royal Infirmary). His commitment to education and training was soon demonstrated when
MADOG ap LLYWELYN (fl. 1294), rebel was fifth-cousin to Llywelyn ap Gruffydd) now inspired him to assume the role of patriot leader. When, hard-pressed by a combination of grievances, the people of Wales rose against their oppressors in 1294, Madog placed himself at the head of the North Wales insurgents and claimed to be ' Prince of Wales.' The revolt began well for the rebels, and during the winter of 1294-5 they kept Edward on the
MADOG BENFRAS (fl. c. 1320-1360), poet names them in connection with the last of three Renaissance eisteddfodau held, he claims, during the reign of king Edward III, and Madog is said to have won a chair and birchen wreath there for a love poem; however, no other testimony is found concerning these eisteddfodau. Madog was a close friend of Dafydd ap Gwilym; both poets composed elegies to each other, and it is uncertain which of the two
teulu MANSEL Oxwich, Penrice, Margam abbey, line and the more important members of the family are given concisely by G. T. Clark in his Limbus Patrum Morganiae et Glamorganiae (London, 1886); it has to be borne in mind, however, that Clark published his work before De Gray Birch and the authors of the Maunsell … volumes wrote. G. T. Clark starts the line with HENRY MANSEL, who is said to have settled in Gower in the reign of Edward I
MANSEL, BUSSY (1623 - 1699) Briton Ferry, parliamentary commander and Member of Parliament . is a warrant of justices in the county of Glamorgan to the governor of Chepstowcastle, authorising the release of Bussy Mansell and others who had been arrested as 'disaffected and suspitious persons.' The warrant is dated 25 July 1685, one of the signatories being Sir Edward Mansell, bart., of Margam. Mansel was elected Member of Parliament for Glamorgan in 1679 (twice) and again in 1689, 1690
MANSEL, Sir ROBERT (1573 - 1656), admiral Fourth (or sixth?) son of Sir Edward Mansel (died 1585), of Penrice, Oxwich, and Margam, by his wife, lady Jane Somerset, daughter of Henry, 2nd earl of Worcester. His career, which is described in the D.N.B., touches the naval history of England much more closely than it did Wales but it is of interest to recall that, by the marriage of his nephew, Sir Lewis Mansel, there was a family connection

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