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MORGAN, WILLIAM (1801 - 1872), Baptist minister
MORGAN, WILLIAM (1750 - 1833), actuary and scientist William Morgan was born in Newcastle, Bridgend, Glamorgan, on 26 May 1750, the third of eight children and the first son of William Morgan (1708-1772), apothecary and doctor, and his wife Sarah (née Price, 1726-1803), sister of the philosopher Richard Price. The precise date of his birth is given by Caroline Williams, the family biographer and great-niece of William, but the date on his tomb is 6
MORGAN, WILLIAM GERAINT OLIVER (1920 - 1995), Conservative politician Liberal also stood, he might well have won. He was the Conservative MP for Denbigh, 1959-83, when the seat was abolished in boundary changes. Morgan then resigned after an acrimonious dispute over the nomination for the new Clwyd North West seat. He was noted for very rarely making any speeches in the House during his 24 years as a member. His attendance record was also very poor - he usually put in an
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, CAREY (1882 - 1968), artist Born 17 May 1882 at Llandeilo, Carmarthenshire, son of Benjamin and Elizabeth Boynes Morris. He attended Llandeilo county school, and soon rebelled against the Board of Education's mechanical method of teaching art. He went to the Slade in London, and excelled in the study of anatomy under the instruction of Henry Tonks. In 1911 he married Jessie Phillips, and became a member of the numerous
MORRIS, DAVID (1630 - 1703), Roman Catholic priest and informer The son of Walter Morris of Llantilio, Monmouth, and Elizabeth Woodward of Worcestershire. He had a brother who died at S. Omer College, and one of his sisters was a nun at Ghent. He lived for three years in the hostel for Welsh students at Ghent, and entered the English College, Rome, on 16 October 1648, on the same day as Fr. William Morgan, S.J.. He was ordained priest in S. John Lateran, 4
MORRIS, DAVID (1744 - 1791), Calvinistic Methodist exhorter, and hymn-writer Born in 1744 at Lledrod, Cardiganshire, son of Morris Morgan. He is said to have started life as a drover but nothing is known of his religious connections at that time. In 1765, however, he began to exhort in the Methodist societies and soon achieved a reputation as a powerful preacher - one, moreover, who in the course of his travels up and down the country, acquired considerable influence over
MORRIS, JOHN (1813 - 1896), Independent college principal Born at Carmarthen in 1813. He was intended for the law, but turned to preaching, went to the grammar school of David Peter at Carmarthen, and thence (1833) to Blackburn Independent College. He was pastor at Saddleworth (1837-42) and Morley (1842-54). On the resignation of Henry Griffiths, he was appointed principal of Brecon Independent College in 1854, which in 1869 was removed to its buildings
MORRIS-JONES, JOHN HENRY (1884 - 1972), Liberal\/National Liberal politician
teulu MORTIMER Wigmore, merged in the larger contest between the barons and Henry III, and, later, in the campaigns of Edward I against Wales. In 1262 and 1266 Mortimer was heavily defeated by Llywelyn, and, in September 1267, by the Treaty of Montgomery, large portions of his land were surrendered to that prince. In November 1276 Mortimer was appointed captain for Shropshire, Staffordshire, and Herefordshire, and the
MORUS BERWYN (fl. c. 1553-1615), poet William Morgan and a number of various englynion.
teulu MOSTYN Mostyn Hall, and Sir Roger Salusbury (of Lleweni) and they were assisted by the bards Gruffydd ap Ieuan ap Llywelyn Fychan and Tudur Aled. Thomas Pennant, (Hist. of Whiteford. …) described a visit paid to Mostyn by Henry of Richmond (Henry VII). Richard ap Hywel, who fought for Henry at Bosworth and had for some time before his death been sinecure rector of Whitford, Flintshire, died at Mostyn on 7 February 1539

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