Dictionary of Welsh Biography

LEWIS, DAVID (1520? - 1584), first principal of Jesus College, Oxford Born at Abergavenny, eldest son of Lewis Wallis, vicar of Abergavenny and Llandeilo Bertholau, and Lucy his wife, daughter of Llewelyn Thomas Lloyd of Bedwellty. He was educated at All Souls'; College, Oxford, graduating B.C.L. in 1540 and D.C.L. in 1548, and becoming a Fellow of his College. He was principal of New Inn Hall, a master in Chancery, a member of Parliament for Steyning and then for
LEWIS, DAVID JOHN (1893 - 1982), architect and Lord Mayor of Liverpool Penparcau. The family, which now included four children, moved to Aberystwyth around 1912. In his adolescence, Lewis showed a talent for music and possessed a melodious tenor voice. Trained by his father and his uncle, Thomas Herbert Phillips, he sang at local eisteddfodau and concerts. One of his favourite songs was Gounod's 'Lend me your aid'. After leaving school, Lewis became an apprentice at a local
LEWIS, DAVID JOHN (Lewis Tymbl; 1879 - 1947), Congl. minister, popular preacher and lecturer . Despite this the children were given a good upbringing and the opportunity to make good; two of them achieved good posts in education and banking, but it was the preacher who was Mynydd-bach's most notable contribution to Welsh life. David John received his early education in the elementary school at Hermon where Principal Thomas Rees had been a pupil ten years earlier. He entered the school on July 7
LEWIS, DAVID VIVIAN PENROSE (1st Baron Brecon), (1905 - 1976), politician Quarry and 1000ft underground at the Oakley Quarry in Blaenau Ffestiniog. Within a few months of his appointment, Lord Brecon was involved in the establishment of the Development Corporation for Wales, which was launched by Brecon and Sir Miles Thomas, the corporation's chairman, on 17 September 1958. The corporation was an organization of Welsh industrialists, free from government control and finance
LEWIS, DAVID WYRE (1872 - 1966), minister and administrator (B) , Eleanor Thomas (born Dodd), Pen-y-cae, Wrexham. Two sons were born of the first marriage. He died 9 May 1966 at his home, Tŷ Cerrig, Pen-y-cae, and his ashes were interred in his first wife's grave in his mother-church, Salem, Llanrhystud.
LEWIS, EDWARD ARTHUR (1880 - 1942), historian Thomas, vice-principal of Barry Training College, who died in December 1942. He died suddenly 7 January 1942. A D.Litt. (Wales) and D.Sc. (London), he was responsible for several early pioneer works on Welsh agrarian and social history. The Mediaeval boroughs of Snowdonia (1912) established principles for later work on the growth of municipal institutions in Wales. Some years earlier there had appeared
LEWIS, EMLYN EVANS (1905 - 1969), plastic surgeon
LEWIS, ERASMUS (1670 - 1754), writer of 'news-letters' and holder of posts under the Government to Stella makes frequent references to Lewis, who had become a member of a literary and political circle which included the Dean, Robert Harley, Alexander Pope, John Arbuthnot, and a person who is not named in that connection in D.N.B., viz. Thomas Mansel (1st baron Mansel) of Margam, Glamorganshire. There are several letters, 1700-13, from Lewis to Thomas Mansel in the Margam and Penrice
LEWIS, EVAN (1788? - 1864), Dissenting minister concluding paragraphs of the article Lewis and Owen families. He migrated to north Cardiganshire where he is stated to have joined the young Wesleyan Methodist church at Tre'r Ddôl. By 1819 he was living in Little Darkgate Street, Aberystwyth, having married Mary James Thomas. He was then a lay preacher. In 1820 or 1821 (the first christening recorded in his Cilgwyn register was on 9 November 1821) he
LEWIS, GEORGE (1763 - 1822), theologian and Independent minister , 1796. George Lewis was a Biblical commentator, a divine, and a teacher. As a preacher he was not in the same class as John Elias, Christmas Evans, and Williams of Wern, for he had not the eloquence of the first, the imagination of the second, or the charm of the third. But his Drych Ysgrythyrol remained a standard textbook in the theological colleges until the end of the 19th century. SAMUEL SAVAGE
LEWIS, Sir GEORGE CORNEWALL (1806 - 1863), statesman Born in London, 21 April 1806, the elder son of Sir Thomas Frankland Lewis. He was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, and was called to the Bar in 1831. He acted on various Government commissions of enquiry, and, in 1839, succeeded his father as Poor Law commissioner. He was largely responsible for the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1841. When the Poor Law Board was established in 1847 (a
LEWIS, GRUFFYDD THOMAS (1873 - 1964), schoolmaster and a leading layman in the Presbyterian Church of Wales Born 3 February 1873 at Pil-rhoth, Llan-gain, Carmarthenshire, the only son of David Watts Lewis, Presbyterian minister known generally as David Lewis, Llanstephan, and Elizabeth (née Harries) his wife. David Lewis was a native of Aberystwyth, son of Thomas Lewis who hailed from Llanrhystud. His mother's maiden surname was Watts, believed to be from the same stock as Isaac Watts (1674 - 1784

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