Dictionary of Welsh Biography

LEWIS, DAVID VIVIAN PENROSE (1st Baron Brecon), (1905 - 1976), politician his friend, Captain Geoffrey Crawshay. During the early 1950s, the Conservative government resisted the growing pressure for the establishment of the post of Secretary of State for Wales. Churchill created a post of Minister for Welsh Affairs to be held by the post of Home Secretary. Macmillan altered this arrangement in January 1957 when he appointed Henry Brooke as Minister for Housing and Local
LEWIS, Sir HENRY (1847 - 1923) North Wales, Calvinistic Methodist elder . Henry Lewis was born at Bangor 21 November 1847, and educated at Friars School there and at Bala C.M. college. He became a very important figure not only at Bangor but in North Wales, more especially among his coreligionists. He proved a most valuable supporter of the University College at Bangor, more particularly in the matter of securing a site for the new college buildings. In 1901 (with H. Barber
LEWIS, HENRY (1889 - 1968), Welsh and Celtic scholar, university professor Treorchy. There were 2 daughters of the marriage. It is difficult today to appreciate the difficulties facing the study of Welsh language and literature when Welsh degree courses were first established. Henry Lewis stands in the front rank of that handful of scholars who transformed the situation by editing essential texts, interpreting them and commentating on lexical, grammatical and syntactical
LEWIS, HENRY GETHIN (1872 - 1945), merchant and financier were published at Abergavenny in 1899 under the title of Redemption hire, deferred purchase, and easy payment tables; these were adopted as a standard by the Wagon Building and Financing Corporation. In 1911 he founded the firm of Henry G. Lewis and Co., Ltd., rolling-stock proprietors, and during World War I he supplied the Admiralty with wagons for coaling the Fleet. At the close of hostilities he
LEWIS, JOHN SAUNDERS (1893 - 1985), politician, critic and dramatist properly be regarded as Europe's first Romantic. In Braslun o Hanes Llenyddiaeth Gymraeg Hyd 1536 (1932) he maintained that Henry VIII's Acts of Union and the Protestant Reformation had cut Wales off from its European tradition. He also contributed essays to W. J. Gruffydd's journal Y Llenor, including 'Dafydd Nanmor' (1923), which dealt with the concept of perchentyaeth (literally 'householdership
LEWIS, Sir THOMAS (1881 - 1945), physician Born 26 December 1881, third of five children of Henry Lewis, mining engineer of Tŷ-nant, Taff's Well, near Cardiff, and his wife. He was educated privately at Clifton College; University College, Cardiff; University College Hospital, London, and became a student demonstrator in anatomy and physiology at Cardiff. He took an Hons. B.Sc. (Wales) in 1902, and qualified in medicine in 1904, gaining
LEWIS, WILLIAM HOWELL (1793? - 1868), minister (Congl.) , Monmouth, 1847-50. After retiring, he went to live in Bristol; he was there from 1858 to 1865. In 1863 he presented several of the MSS. of Philip Henry to the Presbyterian College, Carmarthen, as well as a rare edition of Stephanus's Greek Testament. He wrote Memoirs of the Life and Labours of the Reverend David Peter; and died in 1868.
LLEISION ap THOMAS (fl. 1513-1541), last abbot of Neath and a man of great influence in Glamorgan in the days of king Henry VIII. In 1513 (the earliest record we have of him unless he was the Dom Lyson Thomas who was ordained deacon at Ledbury by the bishop of Hereford, 24 March 1509) he was one of the commission of the peace appointed to assemble at Cardiff - a position he occupied again in 1534. In 1532 he played an important part in dealing with
LLEWELLYN, Sir DAVID RICHARD (1879 - 1940), coalowner , Cardiff (1901-03). He went to USA for 2 years to gain more experience and on his return he began to acquire local pits and then more widely in south Wales, pioneering the use of new coal-cutting machines which he had seen in America. In 1916, as chairman of the Gwauncaegurwen Coalmining Company, he became associated with Henry Seymour Berry, Lord Buckland and the Cambrian Combine, and consequently he
LLEWELLYN, DAVID TREHARNE (1916 - 1992), Conservative politician David Llewellyn was born at Aberdare on 17 January 1916, the son of Sir David Richard Llewellyn, 1st Bart., a coalowner and industrialist, and Magdalene Anne (she died in 1966), the daughter of the Reverend Dr Henry Harries, Baptist minister of Treherbert. There were four brothers and four sisters. His brother was Sir Harry Llewellyn, the famous horseman, captain of the British Olympic
LLEWELYN, WILLIAM CRAVEN (1892 - 1966), colliery owner, companies director, agriculturalist and specialist in forestry studied mining privately under J. Henry Davies, but he then incorporated forestry and timber into his specialist studies and entered government service. In 1918-19 he was the Forest Statistical Officer in the Home-Grown Timber Department of the Board of Trade. In this capacity he travelled extensively around the world, investigating timber regions in Central America, Central Europe and also Russia. In
LLOYD family Leighton, Moel-y-garth, The family of Lloyd of Leighton was founded by DAVID LLOYD (died 1497), son of the Sir Gruffydd Vychan who fought at Agincourt and was executed in 1447 at the instance of Henry Gray, lord of Powys, and descended through Brochwel ab Aeddan from Elise, prince of Powys. On David Lloyd's death his wide estates were divided between the children of his two marriages, who founded numerous families of

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