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Wales glossary

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Mabon


Mabon’s Day

A monthly holiday negotiated for miners by Abraham, William (Mabon) by which the miners were given the first Monday of every month off. Lasted from 18928. Stopped by the owners after the 1898 dispute.

MacDonald, Ramsay

First Labour Prime Minister in 1924. Prime Minister again in 1929, continuing as head of the so-called National government which was created in the financial crisis of 1931.

Mackworth

Family of landowners living at Neath in west Glamorgan. The first member of the family to settle in Wales was Sir Humphrey Mackworth (16571727), industrialist and founder of the SPCK.

Madoc

Said to have been the son of the Welsh prince Owain Gwynedd. He was said to have discovered America in the twelfth century and to have been the ancestor of a tribe of Welsh-speaking Indians, thought in the late eighteenth century to be living in the Midwest.

Maerdref

The estate around a hamlet.

Magnate

Wealthy landowner, usually a peer.

Malthusian

The Reverend Thomas Malthus, professor of political economy at a Haileybury college. Formulated the so-called Malthus Law in the 1790s, which argued that population growth would outstrip the means of subsistence.

Manorial custom


Mansell, Robert

(1695–1723) Eldest son of the first Lord Mansell of Margam; considered to have been a Jacobite.


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