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MANUEL, DAVID (1624? - 1726), poet Born 1624-5, according to some of the sources below. Little is known of his life. He was a native of the parish of Trefeglwys, Montgomeryshire. His wife, Margaret, died in 1699. There were three children: Mary, who became well known as a penillion -singer, Anne, and David. Some of the poet's work was published in Thomas Jones, Carolau a Dyriau Duwiol, 1696, David Jones, Blodau-Gerdd Cymry, 1759
MARKS, DAVID (1788 - 1871), musician
MARQUAND, HILARY ADAIR (1901 - 1972), economist and Labour politician member of the Assemblies of the Council of Europe and the WEU, 1957-59. He was also a member of the National Union of Teachers and of the National Union of Blastfurnacemen. Hilary Marquand married on 20 August 1929 Rachel Eluned Rees BA (born in 1903 or 1904), a schoolteacher and the daughter of David James Rees of Ystalyfera, well-known as the owner of Llais Llafur. They enjoyed a notably happy family
MARSDEN, THOMAS (1802 - 1849), cleric and author Born in 1802 (or 1801), son of David Marsden, a lead-miner of the Lampeter neighbourhood. He was educated at S. David's College there, ordained in 1827, and licensed to Llan-y-crwys (1827-9), Tir-abad (1829-31), and again to Llan-y-crwys (1831-8). From 1838 till his resignation in 1840, he was vicar of Brymbo, and from 1843 till his death, rector of Llanfrothen. He died 24 October 1849, in his
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 (together with some of his children) was drawn also to Moravianism; Moravian services were held at his house of Trefayog; the Moravian 'labourer' of Haverfordwest was at his funeral; his daughters Ann, Elizabeth, and Martha, were professed Moravians, as was his son David. By his wife Margaret Thomas of Dyffryn, John Mathias had sixteen children - list, furnished by the late C. Ronald Mathias of Lamphey
MATHIAS, WILLIAM JAMES (1934 - 1992), composer and teacher William Mathias was born on 1 November 1934 in Whitland. His father, James Hughes Mathias (1893-1969), was a history teacher at Whitland Grammar School and his mother Marian (née Evans, 1896-1980) was an organist and pianist. At the age of six he began to take piano lessons with David Lloyd Phillips of Llanfyrnach, and it was to him that Mathias dedicated his sonata for piano, op.23. In 1952 he
MATTAN, MAHMOOD HUSSEIN (1923 - 1952), seaman and victim of injustice seventeen-year-old Laura Williams from the Rhondda Valley who was working in a paper factory in Cardiff, and they married in 1947. Laura described her husband as a good, kind man and a provider. Although their marriage was a happy one, due to it being an interracial union they faced racial hostilities in the local area and lived apart on the same street whilst raising their three children: David Mattan (b
MATTHEWS, DANIEL HUGH (1936 - 2020), Baptist minister and college principal research dissertation on the development of the Baptist ministry between the Puritan period and the nineteenth century earned him a University of Wales MA in 1980, and in a further MPhil dissertation, awarded under the auspices of Spurgeon's College in 1986, he analysed the historical contribution of the eighteenth-century London-Welsh preacher David Rees (1683-1748) of Limehouse. In 1985 the family
MATTHEWS, EDWARD (1813 - 1892), Calvinistic Methodist minister and author Born 13 May 1813 at New Barn near S. Athan, son of Thomas and Anne Matthews. While he was still young his home was broken up and his father emigrated to the U.S.A. He experienced a spiritual awakening under the ministry of David Morris (1787 - 1858) of Hendre. In 1827 he went to work at Hirwaun where, in 1830, he began to preach. Returning to Glamorgan in 1833 he made his home at Pen-llin where
MATTHEWS, NORMAN GREGORY (1904 - 1964), chancellor Chancellor in 1952. He married in 1953 Mary Laurella, eldest daughter of Walter Rees and Kathleen Olga Thomas, Whitchurch, Cardiff. They were fellow-students at Oxford. He obtained the living of St. Fagans in 1953, died there 6 August 1964 and was buried in Llandaff Cathedral graveyard. He was a member of the Liturgical Commission of the Church in Wales from its inception, and a member of the Central
MAURICE, DAVID (1626 - 1702), cleric and translator son of Andrew Maurice, dean of S. Asaph. This Andrew Maurice was, according to Browne Willis, a Shropshire gentleman, but according to Wood (Athenae Oxonienses), a native of Denbighshire. 'Llyfr Silin' and Walter Davies (Gwallter Mechain) make him the eighth in descent from Ieuan Gethin. Philip Yorke (Royal Tribes) says he was ' of a younger branch of Clenennau.' But his son, David Maurice

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