Dictionary of Welsh Biography

LEWIS POWYS (fl. c. 1530), poet He composed cywyddau to ' Sir ' Owen Poole, vicar of Aberyw (Berriw) c. 1527-33, and to Edward and Roger, sons of Humphrey Kynaston. He also composed a cywydd and an awdl to Lewis Gwynn, the constable of Bishop's Castle (died 1552), a distinguished patron of the bards.
LEWIS, DAVID (1828 - 1908), musician , Llwybrau Moliant, for use in Baptist churches; he also assisted in the preparation of Caniadau y Cysegr a'r Teulu (Gee) and with most hymn-tune collections published thereafter. He composed a large number of hymn-tunes, some of which were collected and edited by J. T. Rees. He served as music adjudicator throughout Wales. During his later years he devoted much of his time to research on the authorship of
LEWIS, DAVID WILLIAM (1845 - 1920), musician conducted music classes in several parts of Carmarthenshire, composed many anthems and hymn-tunes, and wrote pieces suitable for children. He published Odlau Mawl, and Llawlyfr y Llais, and with others edited Y Caniedydd, Y Salmydd Cenedlaethol, and Y Caniedydd Cynulleidfaol. He also contributed a series of music lessons to the Tywysydd. His services were much in demand as adjudicator and conductor of
LEWIS, HOWELL ELVET (ELFED; 1860 - 1953), Independent minister, hymn-writer, poet spirit. It was during this period that he turned his mind and heart towards Wales and to delight in its prose and poetry. He composed poems and essays that won prizes in many eisteddfodau. The national eisteddfod in Wrexham in 1888 is testimony to his gifts. It was called 'Elfed's Eisteddfod' as he won on the free-verse poem, 'Y Saboth yng Nghymru', the love poem, 'Llyn y Morwynion', and an essay on
LEWIS, JOHN (Eos Glyn Wyre; 1836 - 1892), poet and musician born to them. He composed some hymn-tunes and part-song s; one hymn tune, ' Adgyfodiad,' appeared in 1896 in the collection of William Harries, Heolyfelin, whilst the words and music of a part-song were published in Golud yr Oes. But he was better-known as a poet, his compositions including pryddestau, lyrics, and englynion, many of which took prizes at eisteddfodau. He died 2 November 1892 and was
LEWIS, JOHN SAUNDERS (1893 - 1985), politician, critic and dramatist lectureship. At the second hearing the three were found guilty and sentenced to nine months each in Wormwood Scrubs. Shortly before the second hearing Lewis composed Buchedd Garmon (1937). The ostensible subject of the play is theological disputes in the Early Church, but it is hard not to read it at the same time as a statement about Lewis's conservative Christian nationalism. A speech by Emrys contains
LEWIS, JOSEPH RHYS (Alaw Rhondda; 1860 - 1920), musician 'Nazareth,' which became very popular in the Welsh religious revival of 1904-5. He also composed operas called 'Caradog' and 'Resurrected Life.' He died 17 June 1920 at Ferndale, and was buried in the Ferndale cemetery.
LEWIS, REES (Eos Ebrill; 1828 - 1880), schoolmaster and musician Cardiff. He was a skilled conductor and worked hard to raise music standards and to develop a taste for classical music in Cardiff and district. He formed the Cardiff Philharmonic Society. A good violin player, he led a band for a long time. His anthem, ' Arglwydd, gollwng ', was published in Y Gerddorfa, nos. 76 and 77. He composed many musical pieces and compiled a collection of hymn-tunes for use by
LEWIS, THOMAS (fl. 18th century), hymn-writer who lived at Ynys-wen in the parish of Llanegwad, Carmarthenshire, and, at another period, at Castellhywel, Cardiganshire. A volume of long hymns composed by him and entitled Caniadau Duwiol was published in 1795. This also contains a poem of praise to the author by David Richards (Dafydd Ionawr).
LLOYD, CHARLES FRANCIS (1852 - 1917), musician occasions. When he was 16 years of age he was appointed organist of Beaumaris church, and at the age of 20 he became organist of the parish church, Tynemouth; here he took the diplomas of Associate and Licentiate of the Tonic Solfa College and, later, graduated Mus. Bac. (Oxon). He conducted the South Shields choral society and the Tynemouth choir. He composed five hymn-tunes for Aberth Moliant, 1873
LLOYD, DAVID (1752 - 1838), cleric, poet, and musician Voyage of Life. He also published Horae Theologicae (London, 1823), and a march entitled ' The Loyal Cambrian Volunteers,' the only one of many pieces of music which he composed to be published. He was, in addition, a skilful mechanician, and is said to have designed 'perpetual motion' engines.
LLOYD, DAVID (1597 - 1663), dean of St Asaph . The epitaph which he had himself composed, but which was not used, his resting-place at Ruthin being left without a monument, is printed by Wood (Athenae Oxonienses, iii, 653). In it he confesses to an inordinate fondness for the pleasures of the table. He was an ardent Royalist, and in his petition for reinstatement (1660) at the Restoration he states that he had 'often entertained princes Rupert

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