Dictionary of Welsh Biography

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
LEWIS, PIERCE (1664 - 1699), cleric, and 'corrector' of the Welsh Bible of 1690 Born 11 April 1664, son of Pierce Lewis of Plas Llanfihangel Tre'r Beirdd, Anglesey, registrar of Bangor diocese, and his wife, Elizabeth Lloyd of Henblas, Llangristiolus. Entering Jesus College, Oxford, in 1681, he graduated in 1684, and seems to have remained at Oxford till 1690, to supervise the printing of the Bible, which is commonly associated with his kinsman bishop William Lloyd (1627
LEWIS, REES (Eos Ebrill; 1828 - 1880), schoolmaster and musician Born in 1828 at Twyn Cynordy, near Bryn-mawr, Brecknock, the son of William Lewis, who was precentor at Nebo chapel, Pen-y-cae. He received his first lessons in music from his father and from a musician from Pembrokeshire, who resided in the district. Entering the teaching profession, he spent two years at the Borough Road Training College, London, taught at Blaina, Monmouth, and afterwards at
LEWIS, RICHARD (Dic Penderyn; 1807/8 - 1831), miner and revolutionary martyr He was a native of the Aberavon neighbourhood (Cambrian, 20 August 1831). A letter recounting a conversation with an old man who knew him (Y Drysorfa, 1919, 418-9; both the writer and the old man are anonymous), states that he was the son of Lewis Lewis, who lived at a cottage named Penderyn in the parish of Pyle. An elder sister (she was said to be 41 when she died in 1841) married, in September
LEWIS, RICHARD (1817 - 1865), pharmacist and author Born 21 June 1817 at a homestead called Yr Ysgol in the parish of Llandegfan, Anglesey, the son of Thomas and Rebecca Lewis. In 1831 he was apprenticed as a draper and grocer at Bangor. After spending some time in various cities, including four years (1840-4) in London, he settled at Bodedern, Anglesey, in 1844, as a druggist. He contributed many articles to Y Traethodydd on the antiquities of
LEWIS, RICHARD MORRIS (1847 - 1918), scholar and littérateur Born 1847 at Forest Arms, Brechfa, Carmarthenshire, son of John and Leisa Lewis. He became principal clerk in H.M. Inland Revenue offices, Swansea. Translations by him appear in Welsh hymnaries; he also made metrical renderings in Welsh of passages from Homer's ' Iliad.' Perhaps his most important contribution is his translation of Gray's Elegy. He died 20 September 1918, and was buried in
LEWIS, ROBERT EDWARD (fl. early 18th century), poet
LEWIS, Lady RUTH (1871 - 1946), a pioneering collector of Welsh folk-songs, and advocate of educational, religious, temperance and philanthropic bodies , Cambridge. She completed a degree course at Cambridge but, as the university did not award degrees to women, she received an M.A. from the University of Dublin. She worked for a few years, after she graduated, at the Caine Mission Hall in Vauxhall where she took an interest in temperance and in working with young women. She married John Herbert Lewis in 1897 at Clapham; Thomas Gee officiated at the
LEWIS, RUTH HERBERT - see LEWIS, RUTH
LEWIS, SAMUEL SAVAGE (1836 - 1891), classical scholar - see LEWIS, GEORGE
LEWIS, THOMAS (fl. 18th century), hymn-writer
LEWIS, THOMAS (1859 - 1929) Cameroons, Congo, Baptist missionary Born near Whitland, Carmarthenshire, 13 October 1859, a son of William Lewis, blacksmith and devout Baptist. In 1871 he was baptized and received into Nazareth Baptist church, Whitland. For a while he worked in his father's smithy, but imbued with a missionary purpose (inspired by the story of William Carey) and encouraged to preach, he studied under the Rev. John Evans at S. Clears grammar

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