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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
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, REES (1764 - 1847), Calvinistic Methodist preacher Born at Capel-hir, Talley, Carmarthenshire, son of Morgan Rees who was a member of the Methodist society at Glanyrafon-ddu Ganol. His spiritual regeneration took place under the ministry of William Lloyd of Caeo (1741 - 1808) who, thereafter, was his firm friend. He began to exhort c. 1784-5, and from that time on spent the whole of his long life in the field, travelling over the whole of Wales
MORGAN, ROBERT (1608 - 1673), bishop of Bangor ' comportioner ' of Llandinam, Montgomeryshire, took up the prebend of Penmynydd to which he had previously been nominated, and completed his Cambridge D.D. (1661). In 1666 he was consecrated bishop of Bangor in place of Robert Price, who had died before institution. He helped to restore the cathedral fabric after the neglect of the Interregnum, and endowed it with an organ; he also preached assiduously in
MORGAN, ROBERT (1621 - 1710), Baptist minister being David; John, who died at the very beginning of his ministry at Warwick, 12 May 1703, aged 24; Hannah, wife of Arthur Melchior, who is included with her husband and others in a letter of dismission from Swansea to Pennsylvania in 1710; and Robert (or Morgan) who is said to have been a schoolmaster at Horsley Down, London.
MORGAN, Sir THOMAS (1604 - 1679), soldier 1645), helped in the capture of Chepstow (October 1645) and Hereford (22 December 1645), and made several incursions into Monmouthshire, in the course of which he was able to discourage recruiting for the king and to gain new adherents for Parliament. After helping to defeat the last Royalist army in the field at Stow-on-the-wold (22 March 1646), he returned to Monmouthshire as commander-in-chief (2
MORGAN, WILLIAM (c. 1545 - 1604), bishop, and translator of the Bible into Welsh wealthy heiress to Robert Wynn of Gwydir. In 1579 Morgan testified in an action concerning the validity of Meredith's marriage, and during the hearing of the case first came into contact with archbishop Whitgift who greatly encouraged him in his work of translation. The upshot of these quarrels was a suit brought by Morgan, and countersuits by his enemies, in the Court of Star Chamber and the Council of
MORGAN, WILLIAM (1801 - 1872), Baptist minister Cardigan. He then spent two years at Abergavenny College. Towards the end of 1824 he received a call to Holyhead and was ordained 18 April 1825 - the first Baptist to be ordained in Anglesey; there, he was unequalled except by Christmas Evans. He was, says Robert Jones (1806 - 1896) of Llanllyfni, as able as John Elias, but not as lucid. He joined issue with other able men in Y Bedyddiwr, wrote an elegy

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