Dictionary of Welsh Biography

LEWIS, HYWEL DAVID (1910 - 1992), university professor and philosopher major philosophical societies. He delivered many of the most prestigious named lectures, among them the Gifford Lectures in Edinburgh (1966-68), the Wilde Lectures at Oxford (1960-63), the Hobhouse in London and the Owen Evans at Aberystwyth (1964-65). He lectured and was visting professor at numerous universities in the United States, Canada, India and Japan including Toronto, Boston, Philadelphia
LEWIS, JOHN (d. 1616?) Llynwene, Llanfihangel Nant Melan, barrister, and author of The History of Britain Born in the parish of Pencraig (Old Radnor), son of Hugh Lewis and Sibyl, daughter of Roger ap Watcyn Fychan, Hergest. W. Rowlands (Llyfryddiaeth, see under 1729) connects him, in error, with Maenor Owen, Pembrokeshire, and describes him as a great-grandfather of Richard Fenton, the Pembrokeshire historian. It is unlikely that he is the John Lewis who entered Lincoln's Inn, 28 February 1562-3
LEWIS, OWEN (1533 - 1594), bishop of Cassano, college for training priests for the English mission field. About 1574 Owen Lewis was sent to Rome on some legal business in which the chapter of Cambrai was interested. There, his ability and his industry attracted the favourable attention of the high Vatican officials and he was pressed to remain in Rome. He agreed and, before long, was appointed by Pope Gregory XIII ' referendarius utriusque
LLOYD family Leighton, Moel-y-garth, -garth (Guilsfield), which had been in the family since the 13th century, but he also engaged in trade in the city, and may have entered the Inner Temple in November 1657. His mother was Elizabeth, daughter of Owen Vaughan of Llwydiarth, one of the strongest supporters of Parliament in Montgomeryshire. These influences determined the sympathies of Lloyd, who sat as commissioner of taxes for
LLOYD family Dolobran, Owen, abbot and bishop, was a grandson of these two. IEUAN TEG AP DEIO, son of the second wife, Meddefus, daughter, or sister, of Griffith Vaughan of Deytheur, and possibly the widow of David Aber, inherited Dolobran. He married Maud, daughter of Evan Blayney of Tregynon (a burgess of Welshpool, 1406). OWEN HIR AB IEUAN TEG married Catherine, daughter of Reginald, son of Sir Griffith Vaughan of
LLOYD GEORGE family The family was established by the marriage of David Lloyd George and Margaret Owen, 24 January 1888. MARGARET OWEN (1864 - 1941) Born 4 November 1864. She was made Dame Grand Cross of the British Empire in 1918. She died 20 January 1941. She came of a family rooted in the rural life and Methodist nonconformity of Eifionydd. Her father, Richard Owen, was a well-to-do farmer who acted from time to
LLOYD GEORGE, DAVID (the first Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor), (1863 - 1945), statesman Edinburgh, 1918, Sheffield, 1919, Birmingham, 1921. In 1944 he had come to his home, Ty Newydd, in Llanystumdwy, where he died 26 March 1945. He was buried according to his own wishes in the wooded slope above the river Dwyfor near his home. He married (1), 24 January 1888, Margaret (died 20 January 1941) daughter of Richard and Mary Owen of Mynydd Ednyfed, Cricieth. They had five children: Richard, (1889
LLOYD, DAVID TECWYN (1914 - 1992), literary critic, author, educationalist sometime to Carmarthen, spending the night in his old home Garth Martin. A little while later he gave up the travelling, retiring from his post and settling in Maerdy. He met Gwyneth Owen, from Powys, and they were married in July 1984. Tecwyn Lloyd continued to hold classes in east Merionethshire and to research local and family history of the Llawrybetws area, noting the changes that had occurred
LLOYD, EDWARD (c. 1570 - 1648?) Llwyn-y-maen, ancient princes of Powys. Edward's father, RICHARD LLOYD (died 1601), had been denounced in 1575 for receiving secret messages from Hugh Owen of Plas Du (1538 - 1618), on his flight abroad after the Ridolfi plot, and was an avowed recusant in 1588. Edward himself was entered at the Middle Temple in 1585; by 1592 he was bracketed with his father as a recusant, but that did not prevent him from practising
LLOYD, EVAN (fl. 1833-1859), printers and publishers everything (e.g. the title of the firm, ' John and Evan Lloyd') suggests that John was the elder brother, but attempts to find his dates have so far been unsuccessful. The firm must have been printing at Mold in 1833 at the latest, for it was in that year that Owen Jones (Meudwy Môn) became a proof-reader in their office, more especially to correct the proofs of the Biblical commentary by James
LLOYD, HUMPHREY (1610 - 1689), bishop of Bangor Lewis Bayly from the title page of the 1675 Welsh edition of the Practice of Piety, and that Lloyd himself wrote the author's name on the copies to be distributed in the Bangor neighbourhood. He married Jane, daughter of John Griffith the younger of Cefnamwlch and widow of Owen Brereton of Borras. By her he had three sons, John, Francis, and Richard. He died 18 January 1689, and was buried in Bangor
LLOYD, ISAAC SAMUEL (Glan Rhyddallt; 1875 - 1961), quarryman, poet and writer ' Glan Rhyddallt ' in the Gorsedd. He was a weekly columnist with the Herald Cymraeg from 1931 until his death. Under the name of ' Mari Lewis ', his daughter had begun her column a year before her father. He corresponded on a regular basis with Welsh Americans and he wrote an account of Goronwy Owen, Goronwy'r Alltud (1947). He died at Gallt y Sil Hospital, Caernarfon, on 7 July 1961 and he was buried

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