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MORRIS, JOHN WILLIAM (1896 - 1979), lawyer and judge John Morris was born on 11 September 1896 at 189 Faulkener Street, Liverpool, the second child of Daniel Morris (1852-1946), a bank manager, and his wife Ellen (née Edwards, 1857-1946.) His sister Gwen was born two years earlier. The family were from Porthmadog and regularly spent holidays there during his childhood. He was educated at the Liverpool Institute High School for Boys. Morris was
MORRIS, LEWIS (Llewelyn Ddu o Fôn; 1701 - 1765), poet and scholar , still living with his parents at Pentrerianell, he had a practice as land-surveyor, and was employed by the Meyrick family of Bodorgan, a connection which proved of great advantage to him and to his brothers. In 1729 he was appointed 'searcher' to the Customs at Beaumaris and Holyhead, still retaining his private practice during his tenure (till 1743) of that office. Through the influence of the
MORRIS, LEWIS (1760 - 1855), Calvinistic Methodist exhorter north Pembrokeshire (see Bowen family of Llwyn-gwair) to get a preacher's certificate to avoid being pressed for military service. In general, he preached only in his native county. His reminiscences, ' Adgofion Hen Bregethwr,' in Y Traethodydd, 1847, are interesting. He died 11 March 1855.
MORRIS, RICHARD (1703 - 1779), founder of the Cymmrodorion Society Wynn' (the 'Chief President' of the Cymmrodorion - see the article on the Wynn family); Richard Morris thus dreamed of a national library for Wales. The MSS. (including those of Lewis Morris) remained at the School till 1844, when they were very prudently transferred to the British Museum.
MORRIS, ROBERT (bu farw 1768), industrialist collieries. Morris lived at Clasemont, between Llangyfelach and the Tawe river. Soon after his death, his second son (Sir) JOHN MORRIS (1745 - 1819), born 15 July 1745, took a step which put the family name literally 'on the map.' It is not perfectly clear whether it was he or his father who built the ' castellated mansion of collegiate appearance ' (Walter Davies, General View of the Agriculture. … of
MORRIS, ROBERT DAVID (1871 - 1948), itinerant bookseller and author , Ffordd Sera Parri and Gŵr Betsan Huws, and a play, Y Clwyf, depicting the devastating effect of World War I upon a particular family. A large number of performances of his comedies were produced in all parts of Wales. He had a passion for reform in Wales. He was one of the leaders of the I.L.P. in his district. He reacted against the system which made Welsh a language of religion and chapel and
MORRIS, SILAS (1862 - 1923), principal of the Baptist College, Bangor Born 9 January 1862 at Dafen, Llanelly. The family moved to Pontardulais and the son was for some time employed at the Hendy tin-plate works. After he had started to preach he went to T. Richards's school at Aberavan and, in 1880, was admitted to Pontypool Academy. He won a scholarship to the University College at Bangor, the year it was opened and graduated B.A. (London) with honours in Greek
MORRIS, VALENTINE (1727 - 1789), colonial administrator and landowner Valentine Morris was born on 27 October 1727 on Antigua, the eldest son of Lt. Col. Valentine Morris (c.1678-1743), an influential plantation owner on that island, and his second wife, Elizabeth (née Wilmont). In 1736, Valentine Morris the elder moved to Britain and purchased Piercefield, near Chepstow in Monmouthshire, formerly the seat of the Walter family, which he expanded. At the age of
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-JONES, Sir JOHN (MORRIS) (1864 - 1929), scholar, poet, and critic Born 17 October 1864 at Trefor, Llandrygarn, Anglesey. In 1868 his family moved to Llanfair-pwll, where he received his elementary education, proceeding in 1876 to Friars School, Bangor. When the headmaster, Daniel Lewis Lloyd was appointed to Christ College, Brecon, in 1879, Morris-Jones accompanied him. He matriculated from Jesus College, Oxford, as a scholar, in 1883, and graduated with
teulu MORTIMER Wigmore, The Mortimer family came over to England from Normandy as part of the invading army of William the Conqueror, and c. 1075, one of the family, RALPH de MORTIMER, was granted certain lands in Shropshire and Herefordshire, with the castle and township of Wigmore in the latter county as focal point. It was from this beginning that the family eventually grew to be a dominant factor in Welsh border
MORTIMER, ROGER de (4th earl of March, 4th earl of Ulster), (1374 - 1398) Born at Usk 11 April 1374, son of Edmund de Mortimer (see Mortimer family) and Philippa, daughter of Lionel duke of Clarence (second son of king Edward III - the marriage is important, as the basis of the 'Yorkist' claim to precedence over the 'Lancaster' house, descended from Edward's third son). Roger's parents died when he was but a boy, so that his estates came under prolonged and careful

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