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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
MEREDUDD ap RHYS (fl. 1450-1485), gentleman, cleric, and poet Owain Gwynedd ' who sought nor lands nor flocks nor herds save in the vasty deep.' These were the words so utterly misused by Theophilus Evans in Drych y Prif Oesoedd to bolster up the tradition that Madog had discovered America in the 12th century. Moreover, Meredudd ap Rhys must be numbered among the seers of the 15th century He provides evidence of the distress and anarchy prevailing in Wales in
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teulu MORGAN Tredegar Park, Henry VII, by whom he was knighted, made steward of Machen, sheriff of Gwynllwg and Newport, and constable of Newport (see Howel T. Evans : Wales and the Wars of the Roses). His will is dated 26 October 1491, and he probably died in 1492. Sir John Morgan had ten children, of whom the eldest was Sir MORGAN JOHN, who was knighted after the battle of Blackheath in 1497 and died in 1504. His second son
MORGAN, JOHN (bu farw 1504), clerk of parliament, and bishop , who was the son of Morgan ap Jenkin ap Philip, grandson of Llywelyn ap Morgan of Tredegar (Dwnn, Heraldic Visitations, I, 21; H. T. Evans, Wales and Wars of Roses, 216-8). He was sometimes called 'Young' to distinguish him from another brother called John (Catal. MSS. in B.M. 248). If John Morgan the bishop was indeed the son of Morgan ap Jenkin he was linked through his mother, Joan, daughter of
MORGAN, DAFYDD SIENCYN (1752 - 1844), musician appointed precentor there. He wrote several anthems and hymn-tunes. His anthem 'Teyrnasa, Iesu Mawr,' which had a vogue until the end of the 19th century, was published in Casgliad o Donau, 1843, arranged by J. Ambrose Lloyd, under the title of ' Mercurial '; it was also arranged by D. Emlyn Evans for Cronicl y Cerddor, no. 22. Hymn-tunes by him appeared in Lleuad yr Oes, 1828, Caniadau Seion, and in Swn
MORGAN, DAVID (1814 - 1883), religious revivalist duties at Ysbyty and in March 1868 he was formally invited to accept the pastorate of the church there, Maes-glas Calvinistic Methodist Chapel. He rendered a similar service to the Methodist chapel at Swyddffynnon. In 1865 he married Jane, the youngest daughter of the Reverend Evan Evans, Aber-ffrwd, and settled at Glynberws, where he spent the remainder of his life. They had seven children. He died 27
MORGAN, DEWI (Dewi Teifi; 1877 - 1971), poet and journalist belonged to a cultured family and as a young man he was involved in the many educational and cultural activities associated with Capel y Garn, Bow Street. It was his headmaster at Ysgol Rhydypennau, John Evans, who awoke in him an interest in literature. He became an avid reader, learnt the cynganeddion and started to compete in local and regional eisteddfodau, winning his first chair at the age of
MORGAN, DYFNALLT (1917 - 1994), poet, literary critic and translator the judge. After he was registered as a conscientious objector, he decided to join a branch of the Christian Pacifist Forestry and Land Units, (established in Wales by Gwynfor Evans). He was a forester near Llandovery in Carmarthenshire for a year, before moving to work as an orderly in the surgical ward at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham in 1941. He joined the Friends Ambulance Unit in 1943
MORGAN, JOHN (1743 - 1801), cleric 1772 he succeeded Evan Evans (1731 - 1789) as curate of Llanberis (the rector of Llan-rug and Llanberis, Peter Bailey Williams resided at Llan-rug); his stipend was £24; he lived at Tŷ-isa, and kept a school at which David Thomas, Dafydd Ddu Eryri (1759 - 1822) was a pupil in 1774. Morgan became so celebrated as a preacher that people flocked to hear him from remote parts. When David Mathias, the

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