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565 - 576 of 1141 for "robert roberts"

  • MEREDITH, ROBERT (1823 - 1893), printer of Welsh books and music in the U.S.A. Born 23 September 1823 in Y Ffynnon, Blaenau Ffestiniog, son of Robert Meredith (afterwards the Rev. Robert Meredith, Holland Patent, N.Y.). He emigrated to America in 1831, lived in Utica, N.Y., and afterwards in Marcy, near Holland Patent. He received his education at the Holland Patent Academy, and was apprenticed to E. E. Roberts, printer, Utica. In 1848 he went to New York to print Y Cyfaill
  • MEREDUDD ap RHYS (fl. 1450-1485), gentleman, cleric, and poet His name is certainly that which is found in the books of pedigrees of Robert Vaughan of Hengwrt and Edward ap Roger of Ruabon - Meredudd ap Rhys married Angharad, daughter of Madog ap Robert of Cristionydd in the parish of Ruabon. His pedigree is traced back to Rhys Sais and Tudur Trefor, who were the ancestors of many of the gentle families in the Maelors and the Marches : Meredudd ap Rhys ap
  • 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
  • MILLS-ROBERTS, ROBERT HERBERT (1862 - 1935), surgeon, and association football player Born 5 August 1862 at Ffestiniog, son of Robert Roberts, Plas-meini, manager of the Oakeley quarries. From the University College at Aberystwyth, he went up to S. Thomas's Hospital and qualified in 1887, becoming F.R.C.S. (Edin.) in 1893. When the South African War broke out, Mills-Roberts, then surgeon to the Llanberis quarry hospital, joined A. W. Hughes at the Welsh Hospital in South Africa
  • teulu MORGAN Llantarnam, sheriff in 1582; his daughter Florentia married Sir William Herbert of S. Julians. The marriage of his heir, THOMAS MORGAN, to Frances, daughter of Edward Somerset, 4th earl of Worcester, drew the family further into the camp of militant Roman Catholicism; for although she appears to have been brought up a Protestant, she had been 'reconciled' to Rome by Fr. Robert Jones, and she was a generous
  • teulu MORGAN Tredegar Park, Bridget, the daughter of Anthony Morgan of Heyford, Northamptonshire, the widow of Anthony Morgan of Llanfihangel Crucorney. Sir William's eldest son by his first marriage was THOMAS MORGAN (died 1664) of Machen. He also was twice married, (1) to Rachel, daughter of Robert Hopton; (2) to Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Windham of Sandhills. Elizabeth, his only child by his first wife, was married to Sir
  • MORGAN, DAVID (1779 - 1858), Independent minister and historian where he joined John Jones, the shopkeeper, one of the pillars of the Independent church, at whose home on the very first night he met the Rev. John Roberts of Llanbryn-mair (1767 - 1834). Many years later, as a very old man, he used to say that the personality of that good man had changed the course of his life. He did not take kindly to a tradesman's life and within six months had returned home to
  • MORGAN, ELENA PUW (1900 - 1973), novelist, author of fiction and short stories for children many literary friends, including the English novelist John Cowper Powys, who had settled nearby, and the Welsh writers Iorwerth C. Peate, Moelona, E. Tegla Davies and Kate Roberts. Morgan's fiction was produced for magazines and for competitions in the National Eisteddfod, and was written during a brief ten-year period in her life (c.1930-1940) when she had the time to write. In later life, sadly
  • MORGAN, ELIZABETH (1705 - 1773), gardener 3,000 acre estate on the Isle of Anglesey, on 3 August 1732 at Kingsland church. Close ecclesiastical ties had long existed between the dioceses of Bangor and Hereford. Henry was the son of a Chancellor of Bangor and the grandson of Robert Morgan, Bishop of Bangor. Elizabeth's £2,000 marital settlement would have injected much needed funds to fulfil their combined aspirations for enhancing the estate
  • MORGAN, FRANK ARTHUR (1844 - 1907) his family for some months. In March 1887 he was sent to open up the port of Kowloon and lived in Hong Kong for three years, working there, it was said, 'with distinction', then was sent to the port of Zhouhai from 1890 to 1891, returning home in 1892. Although he had formed a secret relationship for many years with his Eurasian companion, Ah Soo, and had two children by her, Robert and Sybil Morgan
  • MORGAN, JOHN RHYS (Lleurwg; 1822 - 1900), Baptist minister, lecturer, poet, and littérateur interests he received very few opportunities of exercising his poetical gift. Much of his work was published, e.g., Llawlyfr y Beibl, 1860, a translation of Joseph Angus, Bible Hand-book, 1854; a handbook for church members under the title of Deddfau Ty Dduw, 1863; Cofiant y Parch. R. D. Roberts, Llwynhendy, 1893; lectures, sermons, and poetry, particularly in Seren Gomer from the 50's onwards; and
  • MORGAN, RICHARD (1743 - 1805), Independent minister branches, and died there 10 February 1805, aged 62. He was a diligent, even an excessive, reader, reading the Bible in the original languages daily; in theology he was an uncompromising Calvinist, and would have no truck with the 'reasonableness' of his fellow- Independent John Roberts (1767 - 1834) of Llanbryn-mair. With Morgan Jones (1768 - 1835) of Tre-lech, he conducted energetic missions in the