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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, THOMAS (1543 - c. 1605), Roman Catholic conspirator of Exeter and the archbishop of York (1561-8), he was recommended in 1569 by the earls of Pembroke and Northumberland to the service of George Talbot, 6th earl of Shrewsbury, at whose house at Tutbury, Mary Queen of Scots was then a prisoner. Morgan attached himself to the queen, conveyed her secret letters, and after examination by the council (15 March 1572) was imprisoned in the Tower for nine
MORGAN, THOMAS (Afanwyson; 1850 - 1939), Baptist minister, historian and littêrateur Born at Cwmafan, 9 March 1850, son of Walter and Jane Morgan and nephew of David Michael (Dewi Afan). He entered Pontypool Baptist College in 1875, and was minister successively at Caersalem, Dowlais (1878-95), Ainon, Cardiff (1895-1900) where he was appointed, with Thomas Powel, to reorganise the Salusbury library in the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire, and finally at Skewen
MORGAN, THOMAS REES (1834 - 1897), mechanical engineer and manufacturer, and inventor Born 31 March 1834 at Penydarren, Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorganshire. He worked in the mines until he had an accident, at the age of ten, which resulted in the loss of the left leg below the knee. After the accident he attended schools taught by John Thomas (Ieuan Ddu), Owen Evans, and Taliesin Williams (Taliesin ab Iolo). He developed, under the tuition of Taliesin Williams, a special fondness for
MORGAN-OWEN, LLEWELLYN ISAAC GETHIN (1879 - 1960), army administrator Born 31 March 1879 son of Timothy Morgan-Owen, H.M.I., Llwynderw, Llandinam, Montgomeryshire, and Emma (née Maddox). He was educated at Arnold House, Llandulas; Shrewsbury School; and Trinity College, Dublin. He joined the Carnarvon Militia in 1899 before entering the army in 1900 and serving with the 24th South Wales Borderers in the Orange River Colony and the Transvaal until the end of the
MORRIS, DAVID (1630 - 1703), Roman Catholic priest and informer the agency of Israel Tonge, Oates's fellow-informer, to substantiate the charges brought against the Jesuits by another Roman Catholic priest, Dr. John Sergeant. He became known as Sergeant's fidus Achates. They swore false evidence against the Jesuits before the Privy Council, 18 February 1680, and their informations were ordered to be printed by the House of Commons on 26 March 1681. For his
MORRIS, JOHN RICHARD (1879 - 1970), bookseller, writer Born 13 August 1879, son of Richard Morris, a quarryman, who died 6 March 1884 at Ebeneser, Llanddeiniolen, Caernarfonshire, and Jane his wife, who remarried. He attended Penisa'r-waun and Llanrug schools, though the Sunday school and the Band of Hope also played an important part in his education. At eleven years of age he went to work on his uncle's smallholding for two years, and after seven
MORRIS, LEWIS (Llewelyn Ddu o Fôn; 1701 - 1765), poet and scholar Eldest son of Morris ap Rhisiart Morris, and brother of Richard, William, and John Morris; born in 1701 (christened 2 March 1700/1) in the parish of Llanfihangel Tre'r Beirdd, Anglesey. Like his brothers, he learnt his father's craft; it would appear from his own words that he had little formal education, but in view of the attainments he displayed later, this may well be doubted. In his twenties
MORRIS, LEWIS (1760 - 1855), Calvinistic Methodist exhorter north Pembrokeshire (see Bowen family of Llwyn-gwair) to get a preacher's certificate to avoid being pressed for military service. In general, he preached only in his native county. His reminiscences, ' Adgofion Hen Bregethwr,' in Y Traethodydd, 1847, are interesting. He died 11 March 1855.
MORRIS, MORRIS ap RHISIART (1674 - 1763), farmer and cooper Father of the Morris brothers Lewis, Richard, William, and John Morris ('Morrisiaid Môn'). He was born at Tyddyn Melus in Llanfihangel-tre'r-beirdd in 1674 and married Margaret Owen (1671 - 1752) of Bodafon-y-glyn, a neighbouring farm in June 1699. After the birth of his eldest son Lewis on 2 March 1701, he went to live to Fferem; from there in 1707, he moved to Pentrerianell where he continued
MORRIS, PERCY (1893 - 1967), politician and trade unionist and received the C.B.E. in 1963. Morris married (1) in 1920 Elizabeth, daughter of William Davies. She and Morris's sister and brother-in-law, were killed during the German bombing of Swansea in January 1941. He married (2) in 1956 Catherine Evans. His home was at 30 Lôn Cedwyn, Cwmgwyn, Swansea. He died 7 March 1967.
MORRIS, ROBERT PRYS (1831? - 1890), local historian and antiquary; a writer in Welsh and English journals (see, e.g. an article by him in Y Traethodydd, xliv) and a temperance advocate. He is remembered for his Cantref Meirionydd, published at Dolgelley in 1890 a few weeks after the death, on 1 March that year, of the author. In its time it was a most useful work, scholarly and painstaking according to the standard then prevailing; it continues to prove a work to which reference can be made.

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