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MENDS, CHRISTOPHER (1724? - 1799), Methodist exhorter, afterwards Independent minister Antiquarian Society and Field Club, 1942, 33-41, there is a most interesting parody of ' Young Mends the Clothier's sermon - obviously this was one of the two brothers. The parody is from NLW MS 67A, in the writing of Lewis Morris of Anglesey; it does not follow that it is his own composition, but he probably heard of ' Young Mends ' when he was surveying the Pembrokeshire harbours. What grains of wheat
MEREDITH, RICHARD (bu farw 1597), bishop of Leighlin, Ireland Born in Denbighshire, son, it is said, of one Robert Meredith ap Gronw and Margaret, daughter of William John ap Gronw. It is possible that he was of the same stock as the Merediths of Stansty. He was probably the Richard Meredith who graduated B.A. at Jesus College, 4 March 1572/3, but it is quite certain that he became M.A. of the same college in 1575. He became chaplain to Sir John Perrot
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
MEREDITH, WILLIAM (1874 - 1958), footballer the playing-field he could change a half chance into a goal: during the season 1898-99 he scored 36 goals in 33 games, and that record still stands for a winger to this day. In 1904 he scored the goal that won the F.A. Cup for Manchester City; he was the first Welshman to captain an F.A. cup-winning side. Because of financial problems, Meredith was transferred to Manchester United in 1907 for £50
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
MILES, WILLIAM JAMES DILLWYN (1916 - 2007), local government officer and author conservation of the natural environment and wildlife of his locality, commencing in 1958 as the Honorary Secretary of the West Wales Field Society, later to become the West Wales Naturalists' Trust and finally the Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales. He took over as the Field Society was raising funds to purchase Skomer Island, followed by its declaration as a National Nature Reserve. From 1960 to 1976
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, CLIFFORD (Cliff) ISAAC (1930 - 2013), rugby player, sports writer and broadcaster, media executive and centre - before moving him to outside half, the position he would occupy throughout his career. Gribble became a significant influence on Morgan both on and off the rugby field. A quirk of Morgan's rugby career was that he never took a drop goal in international rugby after Gribble once dropped him from the school team for winning a game with one. The teacher's passionate belief in passing and
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

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