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LOVELAND, KENNETH (1915 - 1998), journalist and music critic Welsh composers - especially Daniel Jones, William Mathias and Alun Hoddinot. He also (probably with justification) claimed to have given the first press recognition to outstanding singers such as Geraint Evans, Gwyneth Jones and Margaret Price. Such advocacy might have been dismissed as the parochialism of a local reporter, but this never applied to Loveland, uprightly Home Counties to the core and
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
MACKWORTH, Sir HUMPHREY (1657 - 1727), industrialist and parliamentarian January 1683. In 1686 (settlement dated 16 June) he married Mary, daughter of Sir Herbert Evans of Gnoll, Neath, Glamorganshire, who became her father's sole heiress on the death of her sisters. (She herself died before July 1696). On his marriage, Mackworth settled at Neath. His wife's grandfather, David Evans, as well as her father, had obtained leases which virtually gave them a monopoly in the
MADDOCKS, ANN (the Maid of Cefn Ydfa; 1704 - 1727) lawyer of Cwmrisga, who compelled her to marry his own son Anthony; but William Thomas's will does not mention the wardship. Ann and Anthony junior did indeed marry, 4 May 1725, and their marriage-contract is extant. She died in 1727 (buried 6 June). With the above facts (correctly stated by T. C. Evans, in his Hist. of Llangynwyd) tradition has interwoven a romantic story, for which no evidence has
MAREDUDD ap RHOSER (fl. c. 1530), poet who may have been a native of South Wales. No proof is available for connecting him, as Iolo Morganwg did, with Meisgyn (Miskin) in Glamorgan. Examples of his work exist in MSS., including a love poem, an awdl in praise of Ewyas, an elegy to Sir Charles Herbert, another to reconcile William Herbert of Colebrook with William Siôn ap Rhoser of Wern-ddu, and poems in praise of William Evans
MARGED vch IFAN (MARGED vch IFAN (Margaret Evans; 1696 - 1801?), 'character'
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
MAURICE, HENRY (1634 - 1682), Independent minister . Bishop Lucy in 1673 refers to him as 'one Morrice' who brought the Puritan invasion up to the gates of Brecon; the columns of the Sheldon census in 1676, with 682 sectaries numbered in the county (of whom the great majority were Independents), are proofs of his crusading activities; and the Independent churches of Brecknock enumerated in the 'Lists' of Dr. John Evans (1715) were, in the main, products
MAURICE, MATHIAS (1684 - 1738), Independent minister and writer The son of a tailor at Llanddewi-Velfrey, Pembrokeshire, and himself a tailor, according to the unkindly taunt of Jeremy Owen. He became a member of Henllan Amgoed congregation, then went to William Evans (died 1718), at Carmarthen, to prepare himself for the ministry; he would seem to have been there at the time of the first schisms (1707-9) at Henllan. In the second schism (1711) at Henllan
MAURICE, WILLIAM (bu farw 1680), antiquary and collector of manuscripts ). Contemporary problems also engaged his attention, and, in 1653, he wrote a treatise against altar-worship in which he criticised the work of Dr. George Griffith, afterwards bishop of St Asaph, and Richard Jervis, vicar of his own parish. He is also said to have compiled a chronicle of the events of the Civil War in North Wales. Evan Evans (see Panton MS. 72) listed over 100 manuscripts which were in his
MEREDITH, JOHN ELLIS (1904 - 1981), minister (Presbyterian Church of Wales) and author University of Liverpool, and taught in the city as well as in Southport. In a period of unemployment the young minister gave leadership, inspiration and hope to the young people of the chapel. He was fortunate in having the support of two of his Presbyterian colleagues in the Cynon Valley, Revered J. R. Evans of Mountain Ash and Revered D. O. Calvin Thomas of Trinity Chapel, Aberdare, all three proud of
MEREDITH, LEWIS (Lewys Glyn Dyfi; 1826 - 1891), preacher and writer Born 22 March 1826 at Ffactri'r Ffridd, near Machynlleth. He was educated in the Sunday school and at day schools, first of all at Machynlleth and later, when the family moved to Cwmllinau, at Cemaes. He was interested in literature from an early age and had a hand in founding a literary society at Machynlleth (c. 1854) when he was working in the office of Adam Evans, the printer. He began to

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