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MORRIS, WILLIAM (1705 - 1763), botanist, antiquary, letter-writer during his lifetime. He married (1745) Jane, daughter and heiress of Robert Hughes of Llanfugail (J. E. Griffith, Pedigrees, 41); she died 1 May 1750, and Morris remained a widower. A son and a daughter survived him. The (elder) son, ROBERT MORRIS, born 9 March 1746, married Jane Parry, a widow, of the Bulkeley of Brynddu family (J. E. Griffith, op. cit., 33), sold his share of the Llanfugail estate
MORTIMER, ROGER de (1256? - 1326), lord of Chirk diocese of S. Davids, on most occasions in his own hands, but once in conjunction with Robert de Malleye. Between 1307 and 1320 his own strength, allied to that of his nephew Roger of Wigmore, made the family one of the strongest in the country. In 1321, uncle and nephew sided with the earl of Hereford in his quarrel with Hugh le Despenser concerning the acquisitions of Gower. They conducted a
MORTON, RICHARD ALAN (1899 - 1977), biochemist spectroscopic methods to biological problems. In 1924, Morton was appointed a special lecturer in spectroscopy. In 1926, he married Myfanwy Heulwen Roberts, one of his childhood friends in Garston Chapel, and they had one daughter, Gillian (Lewis) who became a fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford. In 1930, Morton was awarded the Meldola Medal by the Chemical Corporation for his outstanding work on the
MORUS BERWYN (fl. c. 1553-1615), poet A native, apparently, of the Berwyn district of North Wales. A number of his poems remain in manuscripts. Most of these are addressed to various members of North Wales families, including John Salusbury of Lleweni and his wife Katheryn (of Berain), Sir William Morys of Clenennau, Robert Wyn of Foelas, Thomas Vaughan of Hafod, captain William Thomas. There are also a poem in praise of Bishop
MOSES, EVAN (1726 - 1805) Trevecka, a tailor Born in June 1726 at Aberdare, he joined the Trevecka Family in 1752, and was Harris's right-hand man till 1773. With Evan Roberts (1718 - 1804) and James Pritchard (who left in 1774), he was one of the three trustees appointed by Harris; his special charge was the religious life of the Family, and he also itinerated throughout Wales to recruit new members. He was an honest but crotchety man, of
MOSS, GWENFRON (1898 - 1991), missionary in China and India . For a time, she found work with the Young Women's Christian Organization. At the end of the war, however, the opportunity came to return to China. She sailed in May 1946 from Liverpool to India, and travelled onwards by plane to China, arriving at Tianjin in August of the same year. She was to work at the Roberts Memorial Hospital in Tsangchow, which had been since 1947 in an area governed by the
teulu MOSTYN Mostyn Hall, harpe appertayning to the Cheff of that facultie.' He died 19 September 1576. His eldest son by his first wife (Margaret, daughter of Robert Powel of Whittington) was THOMAS MOSTYN (1535? - 1618), afterwards Sir Thomas Mostyn. He was appointed to the shrievalty of Anglesey (twice), Flintshire (twice), and Caernarvonshire (once); he was also Custos Rotulorum of Caernarvonshire. For further details of
MUTTON, Sir PETER (1565 - 1637), judge and politician that estate, including a valuable library. Through the marriage of his only daughter, Anne, to Robert Davies (1616 - 1666), these properties passed into the hands of the family of Davies of Gwysaney, Flintshire; the manuscripts and books were to form the nucleus of the great collection associated with the name of Robert Davies of Llannerch (1658 - 1710); see Davies-Cooke family, p. 162.
teulu MYDDELTON Gwaenynog, ; his 3rd son, FOULK MYDDELTON, became governor of Denbigh castle, and was succeeded there by his heir RICHARD MYDDELTON (c. 1508 - 1575), Member of Parliament for Denbigh 1542, of whose nine sons one followed him in the governorship, three migrated to London and one overseas, while his brother ROBERT MYDDELTON represented the borough in the 1547 parliament. Sir THOMAS MYDDELTON (1550 - 1631
MYTTON, THOMAS (1608 - 1656) Halston,, parliamentary commander of Thomas Owen (a judge of Common Pleas and a member of the Council at Ludlow), and sister of Sir Roger Owen, who was removed from the Salop bench in 1614 for his part in the Puritan opposition in James I's parliaments. Thomas was educated at Balliol College, Oxford, 1615, and Lincolns Inn, 1616, and in 1629 married Margaret, daughter of Sir Robert Napier of Luton and sister-in-law of Sir Thomas
teulu NANNEY Nannau, story of Nannau is somewhat uneventful until the days of colonel HUGH NANNEY, Member of Parliament for Merioneth (1695-1701) and his termagant wife Catherine, one of the daughters of Cors-y-gedol (she died in 1733). He was the last Nanney to hold the estate, for his heiress Janet married Robert Vaughan of Hengwrt in 1719, great-grandson to the antiquary Robert Vaughan; the antiquary himself had
NANNEY, RICHARD (1691 - 1767), Evangelical cleric teacher of Robert Jones of Rhos-lan, it is natural enough to find the latter's eloquent tribute to Nanney in Drych yr Amseroedd). He drank pretty deeply of the spirit of the Methodist Revival - though he is not included among the Methodist clergymen like Griffiths of Nevern and Jones of Llan-gan - and accounts are given of crowds of people listening to him preach at Clynnog, many coming from adjoining

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