Dictionary of Welsh Biography

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
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.

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