Dictionary of Welsh Biography

LEWIS, FRANCIS (1713 - 1802), one of the signatories of the American Declaration of Independence , Monmouth (died 1726), had children: Francis, vicar of S. Woollos (who also died in 1726); his son, Dr. John Pettingal, was a celebrated antiquary (see D.N.B.); Richard, alderman of Newport; Mary, the residuary legatee and sole executrix under his will (who died a spinster in 1740); Anne, married to Morgan Lewis; and others. Mary Pettingal, by her will dated 9 April 1740, bequeathed the bulk of her
LEWIS, Sir HENRY (1847 - 1923) North Wales, Calvinistic Methodist elder ) he published a History of Friars School, Bangor, and in 1907 a book on the history of the Tabernacle (C.M.) church at Bangor, which includes also much useful information on the history of the town itself. He married (1872) Anne, daughter of Roger Edwards; they had seven children. He was knighted in 1911, and died 16 November 1923.
LEWIS, HOWELL ELVET (ELFED; 1860 - 1953), Independent minister, hymn-writer, poet 1948. Elfed was also fortunate in his home life. He married Mary Taylor of Buckley, in 1887. This was a happy marriage and they had seven children. However she died suddenly in 1918. He married Elisabeth Lloyd five years later but she was in poor health and died 1927. By 1930 Elfed assumed that his public life was coming to an end as his eyesight had failed completely and travelling became impossible
LEWIS, IVOR (1895 - 1982), consultant surgeon Ivor Lewis was born on 27 October 1895 at Llanddeusant, Carmarthenshire, the only child of Lewis Lewis, a farmer steeped in Welsh culture, and his wife Mary (née Davies). Educated at Llandeilo Grammar School, though his devout mother cherished the hope that her son would one day enter the ministry, Ivor Lewis aspired to be a doctor. After spending the years between 1915 and 1918 pursuing
LEWIS, JOHN (fl. 1646-1656) Glasgrug,, Puritan author son of James Lewis of Cwmowen, and Mary his wife, heiress of Glasgrug. (S. R. Meyrick, History and Antiquities … of … Cardigan, 1907 ed., 308.) As a Presbyterian, he advocated acceptance of the Covenant during the Civil War, and his report for Parliament was acknowledged in his appointment as one of the Commissioners of the Act for Propagation (1650). His pamphlet in support of Parliament had
LEWIS, JOHN (1792? - 1816), Wesleyan missionary son of Jenkin and Mary Lewis of Talsarn, Trefilan, Cardiganshire. Apparently, his parents attended Trefilan parish church, where he was christened on 23 January 1793. He was educated locally, and also at Castellhywel, under the famous David Davis. Joining the Wesleyans, he served during 1813 on the Dolgelley circuit. The following year he was accepted as an accredited missionary for the West
LEWIS, JOHN SAUNDERS (1893 - 1985), politician, critic and dramatist Saunders Lewis was born at 61 Falkland Road, Poulton-cum-Seacombe, Wallasey, Cheshire, on 15 October 1893, the second of three sons of Lodwig Lewis (1859-1933), a Calvinistic Methodist minister, and his wife Mary Margaret (née Thomas, 1862-1900). He was educated at Liscard High School for Boys from the age of six, and went on to study English at Liverpool University in 1911. His academic career
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LEWIS, OWEN (1533 - 1594), bishop of Cassano, , greatly respected in the Papal court. In 1586 we hear of him working exceedingly hard in the interests of Mary, queen of Scots, and trying to persuade the Pope to support her claims to the English throne. He loathed the Spaniards and the supporters of the king of Spain, including more particularly the Jesuits; Phillip II knew this perfectly well and it was certainly he who insisted that Owen Lewis
LEWIS, Lady RUTH (1871 - 1946), a pioneering collector of Welsh folk-songs, and advocate of educational, religious, temperance and philanthropic bodies borough and she became the first woman to sit on the Flintshire Commission of Peace; she appeared often on the Caerwys bench. Because of her great interest in music, she was among the founding members of the Welsh Folk Song Society in 1906. At the beginning of the twentieth century, Ruth Lewis, Dr. Mary Davies and Grace Gwyneddon Davies, with the use of a phonograph, preserved many folk songs which were
LEWIS, TIMOTHY (1877 - 1958), Welsh and Celtic scholar Born 17 February 1877, in a house called Noble Court near Nebo chapel in the village of Efail-wen, Cilymaenllwyd parish, on the border between Pembrokeshire and Carmarthenshire. He was the eldest son and third of seven children of Job and Mary Lewis. The father worked locally in Llwyn'rebol quarry but after the quarry owners failed to pay the workers for six weeks' work in 1880 he decided to go
LEWIS, WILLIAM (1814 - 1891), Calvinistic Methodist missionary and linguist Born at Manchester, of Welsh parents, he set his mind on serving the China Mission under the London Missionary Society. In 1839 he entered the Bala C.M. College. In 1842 was ordained for the newly opened mission field of the Welsh Calvinistic Methodists in India. M. to Mary Roberts, of Towyn, Meironnydd, he arrived on the Khasia Hills in January 1843; he baptised his first converts in 1846. He

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