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MATHIAS, WILLIAM JAMES (1934 - 1992), composer and teacher William Mathias was born on 1 November 1934 in Whitland. His father, James Hughes Mathias (1893-1969), was a history teacher at Whitland Grammar School and his mother Marian (née Evans, 1896-1980) was an organist and pianist. At the age of six he began to take piano lessons with David Lloyd Phillips of Llanfyrnach, and it was to him that Mathias dedicated his sonata for piano, op.23. In 1952 he
MATTHEWS, EDWARD (1813 - 1892), Calvinistic Methodist minister and author sermons was published under the editorship of D. M. Phillips in 1927. He was also a distinguished author. His most popular work was his Hanes Bywyd Siencyn Penhydd (Jenkin Thomas), published in book form in 1850. Another similar work is George Heycock a'i Amserau, 1867. He drew largely on his imagination when writing both these books, which were avidly read by the country people. His Bywgraffiad Thomas
teulu MAURICE Clenennau, Glyn (Cywarch), Penmorfa William, called Pennardd, all descended of their common ancestor, Ievan ap Einion ap Griffith.' MORRIS (or MAURICE), eldest son of JOHN AP MEREDYDD, Eifionydd, married Angharad, daughter of Ellis ap Griffith ab Einion, and had by her eight children, amongst whom were (a) William Lloyd ap Maurice, ancestor of the Lloyd family of Rhiwedog, near Bala; (b) Ellis ap Maurice (below); (c) Margaret, wife of
MAURICE, DAVID (1626 - 1702), cleric and translator , according to D. R. Thomas (A History of the Diocese of St. Asaph), bore ' not the shield of Owen Gwynedd nor of Einion Efell, but that of Cunedda Wledig.' David Maurice matriculated from Jesus College, Oxford, 3 June 1651. He graduated B.A. 1654/5, and M.A. 1657, from New College. He held the following ecclesiastical preferments - vicar of Llangernyw, 1662; rector of Cegidog S. George, Denbighshire, 1663
MAURICE, WILLIAM (bu farw 1680), antiquary and collector of manuscripts Welsh laws which his cousin Meredith Lloyd of Bryn Elen gave him (Wynnstay MS. 36). He transcribed a considerable body of Welsh poetry, and made a pioneer study of the texts of the Welsh laws in his ' Deddfgrawn ' or ' Corpus Hoelianum ' (Wynnstay MSS. 37-8) in 1660-3. He was interested in the early history of Wales and the Celts. He wrote a letter on Brennus to Robert Vaughan in 1662 (Wynnstay MS. 12
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
MEILYR BRYDYDD (fl. c . 1100-1137), chief court-poet -Jones noted a chronological difficulty in accepting as the work of Meilyr Brydydd the elegy to Trahaearn ap Caradog and Meilyr ap Rhiwallon who were slain at Mynydd Cam (1081). The only other remaining poems by him are the elegy to Gruffudd ap Cynan (1137) and the poet's own death-bed lament. In the former, as Sir J. E. Lloyd observed, we have the earliest extant expression in Welsh poetry of the
teulu MEYRICK Hascard, Fleet, Bush, Wigmore, his mother's manor of Hascard, near Lamphey, Pembrokeshire, where he entered the service of Sir George Devereux. From c. 1583 he served in the Low Countries, attending his patron's nephew, the 2nd earl of Essex, at Flushing in 1585, and subsequently serving in Leicester's forces. On his return he became steward of Essex's household (c. 1587), and represented Carmarthenshire in the 1588 Parliament
MEYRICK, Sir SAMUEL RUSH (1783 - 1848), antiquary subject on which he was consulted by the authorities of the Tower of London and by king George IV - for details see the article in D.N.B. He married, 3 October 1803, Mary, daughter and co-heiress of James Parry, Llwyn Hywel, Cardiganshire. In 1809 (and 1810) was published, in quarto, his History and Antiquities of the County of Cardigan, which was considered then - and many such county histories were
MILES, WILLIAM JAMES DILLWYN (1916 - 2007), local government officer and author modern edition of George Owen's The Description of Pembrokeshire (1994). He published his autobiography in Welsh, Atgofion Hen Arwyddfardd in 1997, and in English, A Mingled Yarn in 2000. His wife Joyce died in 1976, and for the last 23 years of his life his companion was Judith Graham Jones. Dillwyn Miles died at the age of 91 on 1 August 2007. A service in celebration of his life and achievements was
MILLINGCHAMP, BENJAMIN (1756 - 1829), naval chaplain and collector of Oriental manuscripts chaplain on board the ' Superbe,' the flagship of admiral Sir Edward Hughes, which sailed for India early in 1779. Then followed eighteen years in foreign service, Millingchamp leaving the fleet in July 1782 to become chaplain at Fort S. George, Madras. At Madras he started to learn Persian, becoming proficient in the language and collecting Persian and other oriental books and manuscripts (in N.L.W
MILLS, RICHARD (Rhydderch Hael; 1809 - 1844), musician at the Abergavenny Cymreigyddion eisteddfod of 1838, and at a Liverpool eisteddfod in 1840. In 1840 appeared his Caniadau Seion - supplement in 1842. These two collections greatly influenced congregational singing in Wales, and were landmarks in the story of its improvement; they contained hymn-tunes by Mills himself and by J. Ambrose Lloyd, and Rosser Beynon, and anthems from Handel and Haydn

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