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MARQUAND, HILARY ADAIR (1901 - 1972), economist and Labour politician He was born on 24 December 1901 at 4 Marlborough Road, Cardiff, the elder son of Alfred Marquand, a native of Guernsey and a clerk in a coal exporting company, and Mary Adair his wife who was of Scottish descent. Some of the family were Cardiff shipowners. He was educated at Cardiff High School and, as the holder of a prestigious state scholarship, at University College, Cardiff. He graduated
teulu MARSHAL (earls of Pembroke), WILLIAM MARSHAL (I) (1146? - 1219), regent of England The first earl of Pembroke and Striguil of the Marshal line. He was the son of John Fitz Gilbert (John the Marshal) by his second wife, Sybil, sister of Patrick de Salisbury, 1st earl of Wiltshire. In 1189 king Richard gave him in marriage, Isabel, countess of Striguil and Pembroke, daughter of Richard de Clare (see Clare family), who brought
teulu MATHEW Castell y Mynach, This family had held posts as stewards and seneschals during the 14th cent, for absent English lords. It was of the same stock as Lewis of Van, and derived according to 15th century pedigrees from Gwaethvoed of Ceredigion. Sir DAVID MATHEW (fl. 1428-84), the son of a supporter of Owain Glyn Dŵr, was a dependent of the Nevilles and a leading Yorkist. From Sir David and his wife Wenllian Herbert
teulu MATHIAS Llwyngwaren, Llwyn Gwaring, Llangwaren, Lamphey The original surname of this family was ' Cole,' and later ' Young '; and its original habitat was Clastir (wrongly, ' Glastir') near Newport, Pembrokeshire (Fenton, Pembrokeshire, 1903 ed., 293) - Fenton incorrectly explains this as meaning 'green land'; the records show that it was 'church (clas) land.' ' Mathias ' was at first merely a recurring Christian name in the family (see W. Wales Hist
MATTAN, MAHMOOD HUSSEIN (1923 - 1952), seaman and victim of injustice interviewed a number of local men including Mattan. Two hours after the murder had taken place, detectives visited his lodgings, questioned him but ultimately found no evidence that would place him at the scene of the crime. Almost a week after the murder, with no arrests and the investigation stalling, the victim's family offered a reward of £200 (equivalent to over £7,000 as of 2023). This was to prove
MATTHEWS, ABRAHAM (1832 - 1899), minister (Congl.) and one of the pioneers of the Welsh settlement in Patagonia for another year and at that critical hour saved the great venture from disintegrating. By that time he was the chief (if not the only) public figure there. He farmed the land to support his family; but he strove voluntarily for years to minister the churches in the Camwy valley, particularly those at Trerawson, Glyn Du, Moriah and Tair Helygen. It is said that the only stipend he received for his
MATTHEWS, JOHN HOBSON (Mab Cernyw; 1858 - 1914), Roman Catholic historian, archivist and solicitor his examination of the family muniments of the Vaughans of Courtfield, a Herefordshire Catholic family (the muniments are now in N.L.W.). At the time of his death he was co-operating in the work of continuing Duncombe's History of Herefordshire. He married, 1892, Alice Mary Gwyn-Hughes; they had four sons and two daughters. He died at Ealing, 30 January 1914. NLW MS 2851E-2853E contain some typical
teulu MAURICE Clenennau, Glyn (Cywarch), Penmorfa The careers of Sir William Maurice and colonel Sir John Owen are dealt with separately; here only a very general survey of the family is attempted. Sir John Wynn says in his The history of the Gwydir family (and it should be remembered that Sir John's ancestors came from Eifionydd, which is the south-eastern part of Caernarvonshire): 'You are to understand that in Evioneth there were two sects or
MAURICE, HENRY (1634 - 1682), Independent minister Son of Griffith Morris of Methlan, parish of Aberdaron, having close family relations with the Wynn family of Boduan and Edward family of Nanhoron. He was educated at Jesus College, Oxford. Possibly he was the Henry Morris who headed the agitation in 1656 for moving Botwnnog school to Pwllheli, but without any doubt the 'curate' sanctioned by the Triers in 1658 for pastoral work in Llannor and
MAURICE, Sir WILLIAM (1542 - 1622), politician was the eldest son of Moris ap Elise (died 1575) of Clenennau, a member of an old Caernarvonshire family which, in the course of the last century had accumulated the most extensive and compact freehold estate in south Caernarvonshire, centred on the manor house of Clenennau (built c. 1550) and extending into Anglesey and Merioneth. Maurice, the first of the family to adopt the English form of
MAURICE, WILLIAM (bu farw 1680), antiquary and collector of manuscripts The son of Lewis Maurice, who descended from the Moeliwrch family in Llansilin, by Jane, daughter of John Holand, vicar of Guilsfield (1586-1639), he spent his life at Cefn-y-braich or Ty Newydd in Cynllaith, Llansilin. It is said that he erected a building of three stories, locally known as ' the Study,' to house his library.He had sufficient means to collect books and manuscripts, to employ
McGRATH, MICHAEL JOSEPH (1882 - 1961), Archbishop and lead to widespread religious indifference. This indifference would undermine respect for family life and would lead to widespread divorce, to legalised abortion, to a lack of respect for life and property and to the abandoning of Christian standards in the relationships between the sexes. The significance of this analysis is not the accuracy of its vision of the future, striking as that is

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