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McLUCAS, CLIFFORD (1945 - 2002), artist and theatre director Cliff McLucas was born to a working class family in Wetherby, Yorkshire on 29 May 1945. His father James McLucas was Scottish and his mother Marion (née Wilford) was English. After attending Pudsey Grammar school he went to Manchester University in 1963 to study architecture but did not finish the course. After time spent travelling in Europe he moved to Edinburgh with his partner Karen Chambers
MEREDITH, JOHN ELLIS (1904 - 1981), minister (Presbyterian Church of Wales) and author J. E. Meredith was born on 7 August 1904 in Denbigh, one of the two sons of James and Margaret Meredith and christened in Fron Presbyterian Chapel by the Reverend Tom Roberts, Deputy Editor of the weekly newspaper, Y Faner. His father was an elder at Cricor Chapel, Pentrecelyn and there was a connection on his mother's side with the family of the Reverend Henry Rees of Liverpool. When he was 4
MEREDITH, LEWIS (Lewys Glyn Dyfi; 1826 - 1891), preacher and writer Born 22 March 1826 at Ffactri'r Ffridd, near Machynlleth. He was educated in the Sunday school and at day schools, first of all at Machynlleth and later, when the family moved to Cwmllinau, at Cemaes. He was interested in literature from an early age and had a hand in founding a literary society at Machynlleth (c. 1854) when he was working in the office of Adam Evans, the printer. He began to
MEREDITH, WILLIAM (1874 - 1958), footballer Born 28 July 1874 in Chirk, Denbighshire, the son of James and Jane Meredith. He was one of ten children; his brother Samuel became a football player with Stoke City and Leyton and won eight international caps for Wales. But Billy was the most talented player of the family. He profited greatly from the early training he had received from his teacher at Chirk school, Thomas E. Thomas, the first
teulu MEYRICK Bodorgan, This family is descended from Cadafael, lord of Cedewain in Powys, but it was in the Tudor period that it first came into prominence. LLEWELYN AP HEILYN fought under Henry Tudor at the battle of Bosworth; his son MEURIG AP LLEWELYN served under Henry VIII, was promoted to be captain of the bodyguard, and was given the Crown Lease of the manor of Aberffraw. Meurig was succeeded at Bodorgan by five
teulu MEYRICK Hascard, Fleet, Bush, Wigmore, Interregnum, dying in 1659. His portrait, formerly at Bush (the home of his descendants till 1837), is now at the family seat of Slebech. Two of his grandsons held legal office in North Wales : JOHN MEYRICK of Bush (born 1674), educated at Jesus College, Oxford, and the Middle Temple, who, after representing Pembroke (1702-8) and Cardigan (1710-2) in Parliament, became puisne judge of the Anglesey circuit
MEYRICK, EDMUND (1636 - 1712), cleric and benefactor of education One of the Meyrick family of Ucheldre, Gwyddelwern, Meironnydd (a cadet branch of the Meyrick family of Bodorgan - see J. E. Griffith, Pedigrees, 308), but born at Garthlwyd, Llandderfel, the house of his father's first wife, and christened at Llandderfel, 11 June 1636; his mother was Jonet, daughter of John Vaughan of Cefnbodig, Llanycil who was Member of Parliament for Merioneth 1654-5 and died
MICHAEL, GLYNDWR ('Major William Martin, RN'; 1909 - 1943), 'the man who never was' Glyndwr Michael was born 4 January 1909 at 136 Commercial Street, Aberbargoed, Monmouthshire. His mother was Sarah Ann Chadwick and his father, Thomas Michael, died 1925, was a colliery haulier. The family moved frequently, finally to Penygraig and Trealaw in the Rhondda valley. After his father's death, Glyndwr, himself a chronic invalid and emotionally unstable, lived with his mother (his
MILES, WILLIAM JAMES DILLWYN (1916 - 2007), local government officer and author February 1944. Their son Anthony was born in Pembrokeshire in May 1945, and their daughter Marilyn in London in July 1946. On leaving the army in December 1945 Miles spent two years as National Organiser at Palestine House, before moving back to Pembrokeshire where the family made their home at Portfield House on the outskirts of Haverfordwest. As before the war Miles quickly immersed himself in local
MILLS, RICHARD (Rhydderch Hael; 1809 - 1844), musician married John Pryse. His son, RICHARD MILLS (1840 - 1903), carried the family musical tradition into east Denbighshire. On his father's death the boy had been sent to his maternal grandfather at Newtown, but later he returned to Llanidloes as a staff-notation compositor in his stepfather John Pryse's printing office. He studied music diligently, won an eisteddfod prize for his hymn-tune ' Pen-dref,' and
MORGAN (fl. 1294), rebel Gilbert de Clare. He has also been described in one contemporary chronicle as Rhys ap Morgan, which suggests some confusion with Rhys, the younger son of Morgan Fychan ap Morgan Gam. Morgan submitted to the king in July 1295, and obtained the royal clemency. His daughter, Angharad, was an ancestress of the Morgan family of Tredegar family. See Morgan ap Hywel for Maredudd.
teulu MORGAN Llantarnam, sheriff in 1582; his daughter Florentia married Sir William Herbert of S. Julians. The marriage of his heir, THOMAS MORGAN, to Frances, daughter of Edward Somerset, 4th earl of Worcester, drew the family further into the camp of militant Roman Catholicism; for although she appears to have been brought up a Protestant, she had been 'reconciled' to Rome by Fr. Robert Jones, and she was a generous

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