LEWIS, JOHN (fl. 1759-1773), Quaker and author, Haverfordwest.

Name: John Lewis
Gender: Male
Occupation: Quaker and author
Area of activity: Literature and Writing; Religion
Author: Thomas Mardy Rees

John Lewis was the author of Brief Observations on the History of Modern Enthusiasm, 1759. He translated into Welsh J. Crooksworth's Principles of Truth, under the title Egwyddorion o'r Gwirionedd (Carmarthen 1773). He exercised considerable influence upon the Welsh Quakers of his day in Pembrokeshire.

Author

Reverend Thomas Mardy Rees, (1871 - 1953)

Sources

T. M. Rees, A history of the Quakers in Wales and their emigration to North America (1925)
[ Cylchgrawn Cymdeithas Hanes y Methodistiaid Calfinaidd, June 1936, 6].

Additional Links

Wikidata: Q20733531

Published date: 1959

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