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LLWYD, HUW
(Huw Llwyd o Gynfal; 1568? - 1630?), soldier and bard
His home was Cynfal Fawr, in the parish of Maentwrog, Merioneth. His father was Dafydd Llwyd ap Howel ap Rhys. It is known that Huw Llwyd and his brother Owen bought much land in that neighbourhood. He fought in France and
Holland
in a Welsh regiment raised to fight the armies of Spain in the Low Countries. It is thought that he built the present Cynfal house; the poet Huw Machno has a cywydd c
MADOCKS, WILLIAM ALEXANDER
(1773 - 1828), industrialist and philanthropist
, and this was named Portmadoc. He planned a railway along the embankment to carry slates from Ffestiniog to Portmadoc, and this plan was accomplished in 1831 by Samuel
Holland
. He was a pronounced Radical, and advocated Parliamentary Reform. His affairs went wrong, and he went to Paris, where he died in 29 September 1828, and where he was also buried. His wife, Eliza Anne, whom he married in 1818
MEREDITH, ROBERT
(1823 - 1893), printer of Welsh books and music in the U.S.A.
Born 23 September 1823 in Y Ffynnon, Blaenau Ffestiniog, son of Robert Meredith (afterwards the Rev. Robert Meredith,
Holland
Patent, N.Y.). He emigrated to America in 1831, lived in Utica, N.Y., and afterwards in Marcy, near
Holland
Patent. He received his education at the
Holland
Patent Academy, and was apprenticed to E. E. Roberts, printer, Utica. In 1848 he went to New York to print Y Cyfaill
MORGAN, Sir CHARLES
(1575? - 1643?), soldier
Myddelton and others, he led a British force to the aid of the king of Denmark on the lower Elbe, but despite naval aid from Sir Sackville Trevor and feats of energy and improvization in holding together a force starved of supplies, he had to yield Staden to Tilly in 1628. By 1629 he was back in
Holland
, for some years, in constant fear of arrest by creditors who had supplied his forces in the Staden
MORGAN, ROBERT
(1608 - 1673), bishop of Bangor
Henblas, Llangristiolus, whose political views he shared. He helped to draft the loyal declaration from Anglesey (14 July 1648), and in a funeral sermon on Owen
Holland
of Berw (2 December 1656) castigated the 'new and phantastick revelations' of the Puritan preachers (NLW MS 3069B). After the Restoration he recovered his living of Trefdraeth, became archdeacon of Merioneth (24 August 1660), and
MORGAN, WILLIAM
(c. 1545 - 1604), bishop, and translator of the Bible into Welsh
held the archdeaconry of St Asaph 'in commendam.' As a bishop, he showed notable zeal in encouraging preaching and rebuilding. His determination to safeguard the temporal possessions of the see led him into sharp conflict with David
Holland
of Teirdan, and into an even more bitter controversy with Sir John Wynn. He died 10 September 1604. Morgan married Catherine, daughter of George, widow of William
MORRIS, ROBERT
(bu farw 1768), industrialist
like Watkin Lewes, by eloping to the Continent with a ward of his, aged 14, an heiress; a clergyman at Lille refused to marry them, and the town authorities imprisoned Morris for a while; but he managed to get the ceremony performed in
Holland
and again in Denmark - it was annulled by the British courts in 1784. Meantime, he had twice (at least) fallen into fresh trouble. In 1782 he was challenged to
OWEN, GEORGE
(c. 1552 - 1613), historian, antiquary, and genealogist
('Twm Sion Cati'), and other antiquaries and genealogists of his day. He was the centre of a small group of writers in Pembrokeshire which included George Owen Harry, Robert
Holland
, and George William Griffith, and he gave his patronage and the hospitality of Henllys to many of the Welsh bards of the period. His most important work is ' The Description of Penbrockshire ' which appears to owe
OWEN, Sir (HERBERT) ISAMBARD
(1850 - 1927), medical man, scholar, and architect of universities
was appointed principal of Armstrong College, Newcastle-on-Tyne, and from 1909 to 1921 he was vice-chancellor of the University of Bristol : he had an effectively honourable place in the history of both institutions. He was knighted in 1902, was LL.D. of the Universities of Wales (1911) and Bristol (1912), and D.C.L. of Durham (1905). He married, in 1905, Ethel
Holland
-Thomas, of Cae'r Ffynnon
teulu
PHILIPPS
Picton,
Carmarthenshire (The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, 1942, 13). He was sheriff of Pembrokeshire in 1595 and 1611 and of Carmarthenshire in 1623. He sponsored the literary work of Robert
Holland
who dedicated his first book to his wife, Anne Philipps. He was captain of the trained bands of Dungleddy. He died at Clog-y-fran, his Carmarthenshire home, on 27 March 1629 and was buried at
PHILIPPS, OWEN COSBY
(Baron Kylsant), (1863 - 1937), ship-owner
and Northern Irish governments. During the war, Philipps continued to purchase shipping companies: the R.M.S.P. (Meat Transports) Ltd. in 1914; Moss S.S. Co. and Robert MacAndrew & Co. Ltd. in 1916; Coast Lines Ltd., McGregor, Gow &
Holland
Ltd., Argentine Navigation Company Ltd., and John Hall Jr & Co. in 1917. Four more companies were acquired in 1919: J. and P. Hutchinson; Bullard King & Co
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PRICE
Rhiwlas,
Politics, Government and Political Movements Admitted to Christ Church, Oxford, May 1636, he was Member of Parliament for Merioneth from 1640 to 1644 when he was 'disabled' from sitting, colonel John Jones, Maesygarnedd, the regicide, replacing him; he represented the county again (1673-9). It has been suggested that as his wife, Mary, daughter and coheiress of David
Holland
, was sister to the wife of
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