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MATTAN, MAHMOOD HUSSEIN (1923 - 1952), seaman and victim of injustice private burial. The efforts of Cherryson and De Maid led to the Criminal Cases Review Commission taking up the case, and it was one of their very first cases to go to the Court of Appeal, represented by renowned human rights barrister Michael Mansfield QC. The night before the appeal hearing, Anne Shamash, Michael Mansfield QC's junior, found a slip of note confirming that the man Harold Cover had
MATTHEWS, EDWARD (1813 - 1892), Calvinistic Methodist minister and author Born 13 May 1813 at New Barn near S. Athan, son of Thomas and Anne Matthews. While he was still young his home was broken up and his father emigrated to the U.S.A. He experienced a spiritual awakening under the ministry of David Morris (1787 - 1858) of Hendre. In 1827 he went to work at Hirwaun where, in 1830, he began to preach. Returning to Glamorgan in 1833 he made his home at Pen-llin where
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
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

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