Dictionary of Welsh Biography

LEWIS, TIMOTHY RICHARDS (1841 - 1886), surgeon, pathologist, and pioneer in tropical medicine Born at Hafod, Llan-gan, Carmarthenshire, 31 October 1841, the eldest child of William Lewis and Britania (Richards), his wife. He was brought up in the parish of Crinow, Pembrokeshire, and received his early education at Narberth National School and at the grammar school kept in that town by Joseph and William Edward Morris. He was apprenticed at the age of 15 to a Narberth pharmacist, but after
LEWIS, TITUS (1822 - 1887), antiquary published works include a lengthy poem, The Soldier's Wife, a Tale of Inkerman, 1855; he was also responsible for the English words of Joseph Parry's composition, Mynyddog, 1877, and for English translations of several poems by David Evans (Dewi Haran), in a selection of his work, edited by Glanffrwd, under the title of Telyn Haran, 1878. He died at Llanstephan, 10 September 1887, only a few weeks after
LEWIS, TITUS (1773 - 1811), Baptist minister to the Dark Gate church, but he continued to administer communion at Blaen-y-waun. He became well known as a defender of Calvinism, both in his preaching and in his writings. In 1805 he published A Welsh-English Dictionary, Geirlyfr Cymraeg a Saesneg (2nd ed. in 1815). In 1806, with the help of Joseph Harris, there appeared Y Drysorfa Efangylaidd, Lewis using the pseudonyms ' Obadiah ' and ' Gaius
LEWIS, Sir WILFRID HUBERT POYER (1881 - 1950), judge . He married (1), in 1908, Margaret Annie (died 1932), daughter of Sir John Eldon Bankes of Soughton Hall, Northop, Flintshire, and in 1934 (2), Elizabeth, daughter of Dr. David Barty King of London. He died 15 March 1950.
LEWIS, Sir WILLIAM THOMAS (first BARON MERTHYR of SENGHENYDD), (1837 - 1914), coal magnate
LLYWELYN ap RHISIART (fl. 1520-1565), Chief Bard of the Three Provinces', and one of the most notable poets in the history of Glamorgan He was a Glamorgan man by birth and his home was at Llantwit Major. His first patron, Sir Edward Stradling (see the article on the family), lived in the near-by castle of S. Donats, while his friend Iorwerth Fynglwyd also lived in the same neighbourhood. In an elegy to Tudur Aled he acknowledges him to have been his teacher in the art of poetry, and his use of cynghanedd was smooth, accurate, and
LHUYD, EDWARD (1660 - 1709), botanist, geologist, antiquary, and philologist .' He also delivered lectures on natural history. In October 1703 he sent his first volume of the Archaeologia Britannica, entitled Glossography, to the press and it was published in June 1707 with a dedication to Sir Thomas Mansel of Margam. The titles of its various sections show what its contents are: (1) ' Comparative Etymology '; (2) ' Comparative Vocabulary '; (3) and (4) ' An Armoric Grammar
LLEISION ap THOMAS (fl. 1513-1541), last abbot of Neath that, Lleision was forced to give up his post on 9 February 1539 and to hand over all the abbey's possessions to the king. Sir John Price, the Crown deputy, made an earnest appeal to Thomas Cromwell to treat the abbot generously, and this appeal was not made in vain, for he was given a pension of £48 and the rectory of Llangattock on condition that he left when he was given ecclesiastical promotion
LLEWELLYN, Sir DAVID RICHARD (1879 - 1940), coalowner
LLEWELLYN, DAVID TREHARNE (1916 - 1992), Conservative politician David Llewellyn was born at Aberdare on 17 January 1916, the son of Sir David Richard Llewellyn, 1st Bart., a coalowner and industrialist, and Magdalene Anne (she died in 1966), the daughter of the Reverend Dr Henry Harries, Baptist minister of Treherbert. There were four brothers and four sisters. His brother was Sir Harry Llewellyn, the famous horseman, captain of the British Olympic
LLEWELLYN, THOMAS REDVERS (1901 - 1976), singer and teacher of singing his repertoire. At the request of Sir Thomas Beecham he appeared in the 1946-47 Delius Festival as the main soloist in Sea Drift and The Mass of Life. This brought him before a different type of audience. His performances were tasteful, and demonstrated a close understanding of Delius's writing. Recordings of this repertoire reveal his sophistication, and many thought that he played an important
LLEWELYN, DESMOND WILKINSON (1914 - 1999), actor liberated from Colditz in 1945, he returned to London, and set up home with Pamela in Chelsea. He found work almost immediately and continued to be very busy in character roles for the rest of his career. Early in 1946, he was cast in the role of Theseus in 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' for television with Sir Robert Atkins, a role that was also reprised the following year. He played many roles on

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