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MARSH, RICHARD (1710? - 1792), bookseller and printer Richard Marsh married, 12 February 1746-7, Mary Hurst, Wrexham; the bridegroom is described in the parish register as writing master. In 1753 he became a bookseller; in 1756-7 he was one of the churchwardens of Wrexham. When he started printing is not definitely known; Ifano Jones (Hist. of Printing and Printers in Wales) disputes the accuracy of the dates assigned to some of his publications by
teulu MARSHAL (earls of Pembroke), honour of Carmarthen. He kept Morgan ap Hywel out of his ancestral seat at Caerleon and in 1236 for a time seized his castle of Machen. He was a benefactor of the abbey of Tintern and the leper's hospital of S. Mary Magdalene of Little Haverford. WALTER MARSHAL (died 24 November 1245) He was sent by his brother, earl Gilbert, to fortify Cardigan in 1240; he also took for his brother lands appurtenant
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MATTHEWS, JOHN HOBSON (Mab Cernyw; 1858 - 1914), Roman Catholic historian, archivist and solicitor his examination of the family muniments of the Vaughans of Courtfield, a Herefordshire Catholic family (the muniments are now in N.L.W.). At the time of his death he was co-operating in the work of continuing Duncombe's History of Herefordshire. He married, 1892, Alice Mary Gwyn-Hughes; they had four sons and two daughters. He died at Ealing, 30 January 1914. NLW MS 2851E-2853E contain some typical
MATTHEWS, MARMADUKE (1606 - 1683?), ejected minister Born at Swansea, 1606, the son of Matthew Johnes of Nydfywch, Llangyfelach, and Mary his wife. He matriculated from All Souls College, Oxford, 20 February 1623/4 and graduated B.A. 25 February 1624/5 and M.A. 5 July 1627. (Foster, Alumni Oxonienses). In 1636 he was vicar of Penmain, Gower, and showed Puritan tendencies displeasing to the bishop of S. Davids. Proceedings were begun against him in
MATTHEWS, NORMAN GREGORY (1904 - 1964), chancellor Chancellor in 1952. He married in 1953 Mary Laurella, eldest daughter of Walter Rees and Kathleen Olga Thomas, Whitchurch, Cardiff. They were fellow-students at Oxford. He obtained the living of St. Fagans in 1953, died there 6 August 1964 and was buried in Llandaff Cathedral graveyard. He was a member of the Liturgical Commission of the Church in Wales from its inception, and a member of the Central
teulu MAURICE Clenennau, Glyn (Cywarch), Penmorfa ). By his second wife, Jonet, daughter of Sir James Owen, Pentre Evan, Pembrokeshire, Ellis ap Maurice was the father of (a) James Maurice (living in 1595), rector of Llandwrog, Caernarfonshire, and Llanfwrog, Denbighshire, and chancellor of Peterborough; (b) a daughter, Catherine, who married Robert Wynn ap John, Glyn (Cywarch), Merioneth, and (c) Mary, the wife of Morris ap Robert, Llangedwyn. The
MAURICE, HUGH (1775 - 1825), skinner, and transcriber of Welsh manuscripts of the Gwyneddigion Society. Practising the trade of a skinner, he settled in Tooley Street. On the Gwyneddigion Society's annual dinner day in 1800 he married, at S. Olave's, Tooley Street, without her father's knowledge, Elizabeth Mary Louisa, daughter of Rowland Jones of Greenwich, a native of Llan-ym-Mawddwy and a past president of the Society. He himself was vice-president for that year, and
McLUCAS, CLIFFORD (1945 - 2002), artist and theatre director encouraged and tutored by local primary school teacher Emyr Hywel. He became part of a group of theatre makers centered around the home of Mary Lloyd Jones at Aberbanc, putting on plays such as Liz Whittaker's The White Tower. He also began to investigate the performative aspects of the structures he was making at places like Pigeonsford in Llangrannog. This interest led him to seek collaborations with
MERCER, JOHN (1893 - 1987), cricketer Jack Mercer was born on 22 April, 1893 at Southwick, Sussex, the second of six children of Walter Ernest Mercer, farrier, and his wife Mary. He married (1) Santa Lorenza Green in 1919, separated in 1932; (2) Kathrine (Kay) Kemish in 1973. He joined the Sussex County Cricket Club as a swing bowler in 1913, having played club cricket for Southwick. He left the following year and travelled across
MEREDUDD ap RHYS (fl. 1450-1485), gentleman, cleric, and poet century on the classical metres and cynghanedd. No fewer than twenty-one cywyddau which can be attributed with certainty to him are to be found in various MSS. - these are poems of love and nature, private poems and social poems, prophetic poems, and poems in adoration of God and the Virgin Mary. Only some five have ever been printed. He had a lively imagination and his love poems are as fanciful as
teulu MEYRICK Bodorgan, became canon and chancellor of S. Davids and while there played a leading part in the fierce dispute between the chapter and the bishop, Robert Ferrar, concerning the income of the cathedral. When Mary Tudor came to the throne he was turned out of his canonry at S. Davids but, before long, the wheel of fortune turned once more and he was appointed bishop of Bangor in succession to William Glynn, 21

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