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MADOCKS, WILLIAM ALEXANDER (1773 - 1828), industrialist and philanthropist , inventors, etc. While living at Dolmelynllyn, near Dolgelley, he read in the Tours of Thomas Pennant, of the plans of Sir John Wynn of Gwydir, to enclose Traeth Mawr, between Aberglaslyn and the sea. Having inherited much wealth from his father, he bought Tanrallt Estate, Penmorfa, in 1798. He enclosed 1,000 acres of Traeth Mawr, and built Tremadoc; then obtained an Act of Parliament in 1807 to raise an
MADOG ap GWALLTER, friar, a religious poet or early 14th cents.), which contains a Latin text of the 'Dares Phrygius' and Geoffrey of Monmouth's 'Historia Regum,' we find twenty-six lines of Latin leonine hexameters in which it is stated that Geoffrey had translated Welsh panegyric poems in praise of the ancient valour of the kings of Britain. The author refers to himself as 'Frater Walensis madocus edeirnianensis.' Sir Ifor Williams
teulu MADRYN Madryn, Llŷn awkward pistols, readers of the Gwydir Papers will know how well Sir Thomas, expert opportunist as he was, had prepared for coming events by diplomatic kindnesses to Royalists in the period 1658-1660). His son, another THOMAS MADRYN, died in 1688; he was followed by his brother WILLIAM MADRYN, who sold the Madryn lands to Owen Hughes, the rich attorney of Beaumaris; the Sidney Lewis of 1763 was a
MALKIN, BENJAMIN HEATH (1769 - 1842), antiquary and author , 452-3); he also published separately a lecture delivered by him to the Society. He died at Cowbridge 26 May 1842, and he and his wife are commemorated in an inscription in the church. His son, Sir BENJAMIN MALKIN, who died before him (1837), was a judge at Calcutta and a friend of Macaulay 's.
teulu MANSEL Oxwich, Penrice, Margam abbey, . Following him came RICHARD (ROBERT ?) MANSEL, RICHARD MANSEL, Sir HUGH MANSEL (who married Isabel, daughter and heiress of Sir John Penrice of Penrice castle in Gower), and PHILIP MANSEL, slain in the Wars of the Roses and attainted. Philip Mansel's wife was Mary, daughter of Gruffudd ap Nicolas of Newton; their son JENKIN MANSEL of Oxwich, ' The Valiant,' had the attainder reversed in 1485. It was Sir
MANSEL, BUSSY (1623 - 1699) Briton Ferry, parliamentary commander and Member of Parliament Born in 1623, the younger but only surviving son of Arthur Mansel of Briton Ferry (third son of Sir Thomas Mansel, baronet, of Margam, who died 1631) and Jane, daughter and heiress of William Price of Briton Ferry. At the early age of 22 Bussy Mansel was appointed, 17 November 1645, commander-in-chief of the parliamentary forces in Glamorgan. He was added to the High Court of Justice, 25 June
MANSEL, Sir ROBERT (1573 - 1656), admiral Fourth (or sixth?) son of Sir Edward Mansel (died 1585), of Penrice, Oxwich, and Margam, by his wife, lady Jane Somerset, daughter of Henry, 2nd earl of Worcester. His career, which is described in the D.N.B., touches the naval history of England much more closely than it did Wales but it is of interest to recall that, by the marriage of his nephew, Sir Lewis Mansel, there was a family connection
MANSELL, FRANCIS (1579 - 1665), principal of Jesus College, Oxford one of the Mansels of Muddlescombe (Kidwelly), descendants of Francis Mansell, second son of Sir Edward Mansel - the papers of this branch are at N.L.W. He was born in 1579 (christened 23 March 1578/9), third son of the above Francis. From Hereford school, he went in November 1607 to Jesus College, Oxford, graduated 20 February 1608/9, and proceeded D.D. in 1624. He was elected Fellow of All
MAREDUDD ap RHOSER (fl. c. 1530), poet who may have been a native of South Wales. No proof is available for connecting him, as Iolo Morganwg did, with Meisgyn (Miskin) in Glamorgan. Examples of his work exist in MSS., including a love poem, an awdl in praise of Ewyas, an elegy to Sir Charles Herbert, another to reconcile William Herbert of Colebrook with William Siôn ap Rhoser of Wern-ddu, and poems in praise of William Evans
MARQUAND, HILARY ADAIR (1901 - 1972), economist and Labour politician . He served as Labour MP for Cardiff East, 1945-50, and for Middlesbrough East, 1950-61, when he resigned his seat. At Middlesbrough he always enjoyed substantial majorities at each parliamentary election. In the general election of July 1945 he had defeated Sir James Grigg who was at the time Secretary of State for War in the Churchill caretaker government which followed the fall of the coalition
MARSHALL, WALTER CHARLES (1932 - 1996), scientist Scholarship and studied mathematical physics at Birmingham University. He acknowledged the great influence on his later development of Professor (later Sir Rudolf) R.E. Peierls. After graduating he remained at Birmingham for research work, and at the age of 22 he gained a PhD for his thesis titled 'Antiferromagnetism and neuron scattering from ferromagnets'. In 1954 he was recruited to join the Theoretical
MARTIN, Sir RICHARD (1843 - 1922), industrialist and public man six years. He tried hard to get the University College of South Wales sited at Swansea, but the choice fell on Cardiff. He was, however, successful in getting for his town a technical school which, subsequently, became a technical college. Martin, with the help of Sir Isambard Owen, then sought to have the technical college recognised as one of the constituent colleges of the University of Wales

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