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MORRIS, Sir RHYS HOPKIN (1888 - 1956), politician, stipendiary magistrate, first director of the Welsh Region B.B.C. and served throughout the war. He was twice mentioned in dispatches and awarded the M.B.E. (Military Division) for action in which he was severely wounded and carried shrapnel in his leg for the rest of his life. On 11 September 1918 he married Gwladys Perrie Williams (born 24 November 1889) daughter of Elizabeth (author of Brethyn Cartref (1951), etc.) and W.H. Williams, Llanrwst, whom he met at
MORRIS, RICHARD (1703 - 1779), founder of the Cymmrodorion Society Born 2 February 1702-3 at Y Fferem, Llanfihangel-tre'r-beirdd, Anglesey, son of Morris ap Rhisiart Morris and brother of Lewis, William, and John Morris. He worked at first in his father's workshop, and we have (in his own hand) a list of implements made there by him at 15. According to the papers of the late Iolo A. Williams, Richard went to London on 1 August 1722 and his brother Lewis on 7 May
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
MORRIS, WILLIAM (1783 - 1861), Calvinistic Methodist minister churchyard. He travelled a great deal throughout Wales and was held in high esteem by his contemporaries who regarded him as an ardent and lucid preacher. In 1873 a stout volume of his sermons was published under the editorship of George Williams.
MORYS, HUW (Eos Ceiriog; 1622 - 1709), poet to assist his father on the farm. That he was well patronised by the gentry of Llansilin and district is amply proved in his poems, for time and again he acknowledges his indebtedness to Sir William Williams (1634 - 1700), Glasgoed (Speaker of the House of Commons), the Myddelton family of Chirk castle, William Owen of Brogyntyn, and others. Huw was ever an ardent churchman, and a staunch royalist
MOSES, EVAN (1726 - 1805) Trevecka, a tailor . Society at Bala (William Williams, Methodistiaeth Dwyrain Meirionydd, 52-5). Evan Moses's dates are not known, but his brother John died in 1787. The poet Ioan Tegid (John Jones, 1792 - 1852) was John Moses's grandson.
MOSES-EVANS, DAVID LEWIS (1822 - 1893), poet and schoolmaster -mother of J. Lloyd Thomas, headmaster of Llanfyllin grammar school, and the mother of Dafydd Arafnah Thomas, a minister. See T.J. Morgan's article on the eisteddfod poets of Cwmaman and the Swansea valley in Journal of the Welsh Bibliographical Society, 9, 162-85, for his role as a teacher of poets in the area and the comments of Watcyn Wyn (Watkin Hezekiah Williams and Gwydderig. See also Huw Walters
MOSTYN, Baron WILLIAMS of - gweler WILLIAMS, GARETH WYN
MUTTON, Sir PETER (1565 - 1637), judge and politician was already a man of influence in North Wales; his second marriage, to Ellen, sister of John Williams, bishop of Lincoln doubtless brought him into closer touch with national affairs. In addition to serving on the Council for Wales, Sir Peter was elected Member of Parliament for Denbighshire (1604) and Caernarvonshire (1624); no significant relic of his political career remains, except an oft
teulu MYDDELTON Gwaenynog, his brother Hugh (below) and in the Virginia Company, and a universal banker and moneylender, often in association with James I's Welsh goldsmith John Williams. He remained in close touch with Wales, interceding on behalf of his fellow-burgesses of Denbigh against the 'encroachments' of the Salusbury's of Lleweni in 1593, arbitrating in other local disputes in 1595, serving Merionethshire (where he
MYTTON, THOMAS (1608 - 1656) Halston,, parliamentary commander Salop in the first Protectorate parliament (1654) and was county commissioner there for the decimation tax in December 1655. He died the following November His letters suggest a man of humane and generous temper, and archbishop John Williams says he was 'well-beloved' in North Wales (Cal. Wynn Papers, 1834); but the treatment of Irish prisoners taken at Conway is a blot on his reputation. Another
teulu NANNEY Nannau, death in 1783, leaving his brother ROBERT HOWELL VAUGHAN (1723 - 1792), created a baronet in 1791, to carry on the long litigation till 1788, when the Chancery masters delivered a final and very favourable verdict. It is true that R. H. Vaughan was made a baronet in 1791, but much more important for the fortunes of the family was his marriage in 1765 with Ann Williams, heiress of the Ystumcolwyn lands

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