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MADOG ap GWALLTER, friar, a religious poet (Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies, iv, 133-4) holds it as very probable that this poet is to be identified with the Friar Madog ap Gwallter whose Welsh poems survive, and in that case this poet hailed from Llanfihangel Glyn Myfyr, which even as early as 1254 is wrongly associated with Edeirnion, though actually it is in Dinmael.
teulu MADRYN Madryn, Llŷn awkward pistols, readers of the Gwydir Papers will know how well Sir Thomas, expert opportunist as he was, had prepared for coming events by diplomatic kindnesses to Royalists in the period 1658-1660). His son, another THOMAS MADRYN, died in 1688; he was followed by his brother WILLIAM MADRYN, who sold the Madryn lands to Owen Hughes, the rich attorney of Beaumaris; the Sidney Lewis of 1763 was a
MAELGWN ap RHYS (bu farw 1295), rebel of 1294 a son of Rhys Fychan, last lord of Geneu'r Glyn in north Cardiganshire, and a descendant of Maelgwn ap Rhys ap Gruffydd. When in 1294 a general uprising against alien rule broke out in Wales, led by Madog ap Llywelyn in North Wales, and Morgan in Glamorgan, Maelgwn assumed the leadership of the insurgents in Cardiganshire. The campaign in west Wales comprised a hard, but unsuccessful, siege of
MAINWARING, WILLIAM HENRY (1884 - 1971), Labour politician He was born at Fforest-fach, Swansea, probably in 1884 (although some sources give the year of his birth as 1885), the son of William Mainwaring and his wife. Both his parents were natives of Swansea. He was educated at St Peter's National School, Cocket. He began work as a coalminer at the Cambrian Colliery, Clydach Vale at the age of thirteen in 1897, and served as secretary to the SWMF
teulu MANSEL Oxwich, Penrice, Margam abbey, few months, to be succeeded by his brother, BUSSY MANSEL, 4th baron Mansel (died 1750), whose second wife was Barbara, daughter of William, 2nd earl of Jersey. The eventual heir to the Margam property was MARY MANSEL, sister of the 3rd and 4th barons; she married John Ivory Talbot, of Lacock abbey, Wiltshire, whence Mansel Talbot and Talbot. For details as to the practical interest which certain
MANSEL, BUSSY (1623 - 1699) Briton Ferry, parliamentary commander and Member of Parliament Born in 1623, the younger but only surviving son of Arthur Mansel of Briton Ferry (third son of Sir Thomas Mansel, baronet, of Margam, who died 1631) and Jane, daughter and heiress of William Price of Briton Ferry. At the early age of 22 Bussy Mansel was appointed, 17 November 1645, commander-in-chief of the parliamentary forces in Glamorgan. He was added to the High Court of Justice, 25 June
MANSEL, Sir ROBERT (1573 - 1656), admiral John Hollond, and A Discourse of the Navy, by Sir Robert Slyngesbie (ed. Tanner, 1896), (ii) The Autobiography of Phineas Pett (ed. Perrin, 1918), (iii) The Naval Tracts of Sir William Monson (ed. Oppenheim, 5 vols., 1902-1914). It may be added that these contemporary naval papers suggest that Mansell's appointment as vice-admiral in 1618 was not in fact a promotion, but rather a deliberate removal
MANSEL, WILLIAM LORT (1753 - 1820), Master of Trinity, and bishop epigrams, and his satirical verse. He became Master at a difficult time, when the Fellows were at loggerheads over the political controversies of the Revolutionary period, but he showed remarkable skill in handling the situation - see G. M. Trevelyan, Trinity College, 81-3. But we are here more concerned with his Welsh associations. He was born in Pembroke town; his father was William Wogan Mansel. It is
MAREDUDD ap RHOSER (fl. c. 1530), poet who may have been a native of South Wales. No proof is available for connecting him, as Iolo Morganwg did, with Meisgyn (Miskin) in Glamorgan. Examples of his work exist in MSS., including a love poem, an awdl in praise of Ewyas, an elegy to Sir Charles Herbert, another to reconcile William Herbert of Colebrook with William Siôn ap Rhoser of Wern-ddu, and poems in praise of William Evans
MARGED vch IFAN (MARGED vch IFAN (Margaret Evans; 1696 - 1801?), 'character' bastings - after the first, he married her, and after the second he became a Methodist, indeed, 'one of the chief leaders of Methodism in the parish.' But Ambrose (loc. cit.) gives this hero's name as William Richards. Ambrose says, too, that she died in 1788, aged 92. But according to the Cambrian Travellers Guide (quoted in Hobley, Hanes Meth. Arfon, iv, 22), she died in 1801, aged 105 - it will be
MARSH, RICHARD (1710? - 1792), bookseller and printer A. N. Palmer in his History of Wrexham and by William Rowlands (in Llyfryddiaeth y Cymry). He was certainly printing in 1772, as Cyfarwyddiad i Fesurwyr and Cydymaith i'r Allor belong to that year. Many of the products of his press were of cheap booklets and ballads. He died 24 May 1792, and was buried in Wrexham churchyard. Richard Marsh was succeeded by his son, JOHN MARSH (1747 - 1795), a
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

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