Dictionary of Welsh Biography

KENYON family Gredington, Peel Hall, defence of lord George Gordon in 1780; as judge, he presided over the trial of Stockdale for libel, in 1789, and, for a period, over the trial of Warren Hastings; he also tried Edward Jones, fl. 1741-1806. He was lord lieutenant of the county of Flint 1796-8, and 'Custos Rotulorum' from 1796 until his death. He married, 16 October 1773, at Deane, Lancashire, his cousin Mary, third daughter of George
KILMISTER, IAN FRASER (1945 - 2015), musician Ian Fraser Kilmister was born on 24 December 1945 in Stoke-on-Trent, the son of Sidney Davy Albert Kilmister and his wife Jessie Milda, 'June' (née Simpson). His father, a former RAF chaplain, deserted the family when Ian was just three months old and he was raised by his mother and grandmother in a small Staffordshire town. When he was ten years old his mother married George Willis and the
LANGFORD family Allington, Humphrey Lloyd, sheriff of Montgomeryshire, 1540, and it was his grandson, Thomas Langford, who wrote the pedigree manuscript Bodewryd MS 102D), William, Roger, David, Mathew, Elizabeth, Catherine, and Ann. By his second wife, Marsli, daughter of John ab Ieuan ap Howell of Trefriw, he had Thomas, George, Owen, Jane, Ellen, Jane (2), and Alice. JOHN He married Catherine, daughter of John ap Harry Jervis
LEWIS of CAERLEON (fl. 1491), mathematician, theologian, doctor of medicine, and teacher at Oxford a grant for life to be one of the knights of the king's alms in the chapel or church of S. Mary the Virgin, S. George the Martyr, and S. Edward the Confessor at Windsor castle, a grant which was repeated in the same terms 14 September 1491. The King's Book of Payments of May 1510 records a reward of £100 in gold to Master Lewis, the princess of Castile's physician, but it is not certain whether
LEWIS, ERASMUS (1670 - 1754), writer of 'news-letters' and holder of posts under the Government Born at Abercothy, about six miles from Carmarthen. He went to Westminster School in 1686 and to S. John's College, Cambridge, 1690, graduating in 1693. In October 1698 he was in Berlin with his 'cousin,' George Stepney, and writing 'news-letters' to George Ellis, M.P.; at the same time he was seeking some Government post. As his career is described in the D.N.B. this account can be brief. He
LEWIS, GEORGE (Eiddil Llwyn Celyn; 1826? - 1858), poet and shoemaker
LEWIS, GEORGE (c. 1640? - 1709?), cleric and author It may be presumed that he was born near Llanboidy, Carmarthenshire; he was ordained deacon 2 June 1667, and priest 21 September in the same year. He was licensed as curate of St Clears, and later served Llanboidy. He may be the George Lewis instituted as rector of Henllan Amgoed on 3 June 1668; in the same year, on 14 September, he was instituted vicar of Abergwili. His successor came there in
LEWIS, GEORGE (1763 - 1822), theologian and Independent minister there, and George Lewis was invited by the Congregational Board in London to manage the Academy at Wrexham. In 1815 he received two calls, one from Liverpool and one from Llanfyllin. The Board was unwilling to allow the Academy to be moved from Wales but raised no objection to its being moved from Wrexham to Llanfyllin (1815-21). In 1821 he moved it again to Newtown, but died within six months, 5 June
LEWIS, Sir GEORGE CORNEWALL (1806 - 1863), statesman
LEWIS, HENRY GETHIN (1872 - 1945), merchant and financier was one of the largest wagon-hirers in Britain. His generosity kept pace with his success. In 1927 he bought the former residence of George Davidson, Wernfawr, Harlech, and presented it to the founders of Coleg Harlech. He also bought and gave to N.L.W. the E.C. Quiggin Celtic collection. He was High Sheriff of Glamorgan, 1920-21, a governor and treasurer of the University College, Cardiff, a
LEWIS, JOHN (fl. 1728-1755), printer and publisher Amusement in 1740-1, a weekly consisting mainly of letters from George Whitefield and his correspondents. This paper continued to run for some years under various names, such as The Weekly History, 1741-2, An Account of the Progress of the Gospel, 1743-4, and The Christian History, 1744-5. He published many of the books written by the Methodist authors of the period. He died 13 May 1755, and was buried in
LEWIS, Sir JOHN HERBERT (1858 - 1933), lawyer and politician County Council : he was one of the founders of the Intermediate school system in Wales. He entered Parliament in 1892 as a Liberal, representing the Flint boroughs until 1906, the county until 1918, and the University of Wales, a seat secured for Wales by his efforts, until his retirement in 1922. A close friend of David Lloyd George and Thomas E. Ellis, and with an intense love of Wales, he took every

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