Dictionary of Welsh Biography

KNIGHT, HENRY HEY (1795 - 1857), cleric and antiquary (1806? - 1873), who also occupied Nottage Court which is still in the hands of his descendants in the female line. The three brothers' (eldest) sister, ANNE BASSETT KNIGHT (1794 - 1825), married the Rev. John Blackmore, and was the mother of the novelist Richard Doddridge Blackmore (1825 - 1900), who when young spent much of his time at Nottage Court with his uncle Henry Hey Knight, is said to have
KROCH, HEINZ JUSTUS (1920 - 2011), engineer and businessman probably at this time that he adopted the English name Henry. At this stage there was no indication that Kroch would come to be one of the most important figures in post-war Welsh life, creating a multinational electronics company that would employ thousands of people, and serving on the boards of several important Welsh institutions. The decisive break that led to this new direction came with his move
KYFFIN, RICHARD, dean of Bangor Henry Tudor during the years before Bosworth. The choir of the cathedral was rebuilt during his period of office, and one of the windows (with figures of SS. Dwynwen and Catherine) was donated by him. He held the rectory of Llanddwynwen, and was the founder of the cathedral chantry of S. Catherine near which (in the south transept) he was buried. An inscription in brass marked his resting-place, which
LACY (DE) family, constables of Chester Halton, there by the Welsh. His son JOHN (died 1240) became first De Lacy earl of Lincoln by right of marriage. The latter's grandson, HENRY DE LACY, third earl of Lincoln (died 1311), who added the earldom of Salisbury to the family titles by his first marriage with Margaret Longespée, was the most powerful and influential member of this family in the affairs both of England and of Wales. One of the closest
LACY (DE) family, lords Ewyas, Weobley, had become involved in the affairs of Llywelyn and William de Breos), thereafter appears as a staunch supporter of the Crown, being among the marcher lords on the side of John in the crisis of 1215, and on that of Henry III during the Marshal rising of 1233. Hugh, 1st earl of Ulster, proved less amenable; he spent many years in exile and may, for a short time, have been a fugitive in Wales. William
LANGFORD family Allington, constableship of Ruthin castle to him and his son EDWARD, 1447. Richard Langford died 12 July 1466, two years after his wife, Alice, daughter and heiress of Howell ap Griffith ap Morgan of Hopedale, widow of John ap Richard Wettenhale. Their heir was the Edward Langford mentioned above. Henry VI granted him the offices of escheator and attorney of the lordship of Denbigh, for his personal service against
LAWS, EDWARD (1837 - 1913), historian collaboration with his adopted daughter Emily Hewlett Edwards, A Short History of the Civil War as it affected Tenby and its neighbourhood, 1887, and a number of articles in Archæologia Cambrensis, 1882-1906. With assistance from Henry Owen (1844 - 1919), before the work was completed, he produced an ' Archaeological Survey of Pembrokeshire,' 1908. He died 25 July 1913 after an accident while driving his
LEE, ROWLAND (d. 1543), bishop of Coventry and Lichfield (which included at that time what later became the diocese of Chester) (1534-1543), and president of the Council in Wales and the Marches for the same period style of nomenclature and surnames; (on this, see Ellis, Original Letters, III, iii, 13). It used to be believed that it was at his recommendation that, in the time of Henry VIII, the division of Wales into shire ground was completed. Actually, Lee protested against the statute of 1536 which made the whole of Wales into shire-ground and gave it justices of the peace and gaol delivery as in England. In
LESTRANGE family Great Ness, Cheswardine, Knockin, JOHN LESTRANGE (died c. 1269) witnessed the treaty between Dafydd ap Gruffydd and Henry III in May 1240, was appointed in March 1241 to try Dafydd, and in January 1245 was a commissioner to make peace with him. HAWISE, daughter of this John Lestrange, married Gruffydd ap Gwenwynwyn. In the years 1244-5 John Lestrange wrote to Henry III telling of Gruffydd's support for the English cause; he aided
LEWIS family Van, , Wiltshire, of which he was lessee. He was Gentleman of the Privy Chamber to prince Henry in 1610 and afterwards to prince Charles. He died at Edington, 10 October 1630 - two years after his father. WILLIAM LEWIS (died 1661) He succeeded to the estate and died in 1661. His wife was Margaret, heiress of the estates of Brill and Boarstal, to both of which he added. He was a strong Parliamentarian. EDWARD
LEWIS of CAERLEON (fl. 1491), mathematician, theologian, doctor of medicine, and teacher at Oxford the Lancastrians. He was certainly high in the favour of Henry VII, for the Calendar of Patent Rolls records a grant to him for life of forty marks out of the revenues of Wiltshire, 24 February 1486, and a further grant of twenty marks for life, 27 November 1486, at the receipt of the Exchequer, when he is called ' the king's servant, Lewis Caerlion, doctor of medicine.' On 3 August 1488 he received
LEWIS, DAVID (1848 - 1897), lawyer ' The Welshman of English Literature,' in Cymm., 1882, and Red Dragon, 1886; ' The English Statutes relating to Wales,' in Wales 1894-5; ' The Court of the President and Council of Wales and the Marches 1478-1575,' in Cymm., 1897; ' Notes on the Charters of Neath Abbey,' in Archæologia Cambrensis, 1887; ' A Progress through Wales in the 17th century ' (i.e. of Henry, duke of Beaufort), in Cymm., 1883

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