Dictionary of Welsh Biography

LEWIS, JANET ELLEN (1900 - 1979), novelist, poet and journalist on the editorial staff of the Daily News and the Sunday Times in the 1930s. In 1937 she married Graeme Hendrey; they had one daughter, Katrina, and the family moved to live in rural Surrey. She and her husband became friends with a number of literary figures, including Anglo-Welsh writers such as Ernest Rhys, Hilda Vaughan, and Charles Morgan. Later, in 1967, Lewis published an edited volume of the
LEWIS, JOHN (d. 1616?) Llynwene, Llanfihangel Nant Melan, barrister, and author of The History of Britain . The following extract (quoted by Edward Owen in his Catalogue, named below) from the copy (in B.M. Harl. MS. 6840) of the will (dated 14 September 1720) of Hugh Thomas is relevant: 'Whereas I have receiv'd several pounds towards printing my book now in ye press and begun by Mr. John Lewis of Llanwenny …' Like other members of his family, he was a Catholic recusant, and he was excommunicated by the
LEWIS, JOHN DAVID (1859 - 1914), bookseller, local historian, and founder of a printing press father's side he was descended from a highly respected family in the Cerdin valley, the famous preacher Christmas Evans being of the same stock, while on his mother's side he was descended from a family of well-to-do farmers in the parish of Cilrhedyn. From his early days he was interested in the literature, history, and folk-lore of his neighbourhood, and made a collection of books, pamphlets, and
LEWIS, JOHN HUW (1931 - 2008), printer and publisher much of his time working on maps. Having completed his apprenticeship in the printing industry in London he returned to Llandysul to join the family business, Gwasg Gomer, also known as Gomer Press. The press - founded by his grandfather John David Lewis, in Market Stores, Llandysul, in 1892 - was now being run by J. D. Lewis's two sons: Rhys Lewis (Huw Lewis's father) and Edward Lewis. John Lewis
LEWIS, MOSES (fl. 1748-1800), Methodist exhorter, afterwards an Antinomian son of Arthur Lewis of Fron, Brymbo, Denbighshire. He was one of the founders of the church in Adwy'r Clawdd and it was to his house that Peter Williams fled after his persecution in 1748. He began to exhort c. 1750. In 1751 he adhered to the party of Howel Harris, but soon repudiated him and refused to join his 'Family' at Trevecka. He became an Antinomian and established a small following in
LEWIS, OWEN (1533 - 1594), bishop of Cassano, Borromeo. And in the archbishop's palace he enjoyed the company of his fellow-countryman, Gruffydd Robert, who was also one of Borromeo's 'family,' and acted as one of his confessors. Gruffydd Robert appears to have assisted him from time to time in his work as vicar general. In November 1584 Borromeo died, and two months afterwards Owen Lewis was back in Rome, where he spent the rest of his life
LEWIS, Lady RUTH (1871 - 1946), a pioneering collector of Welsh folk-songs, and advocate of educational, religious, temperance and philanthropic bodies Born 29 November 1871, at 16 Alexandra Drive, Liverpool, the third child of William Sproston Caine (DNB, 1901-50), and his wife Alice, the daughter of Hugh Stowell Brown, minister at the Myrtle Street Baptist church, Liverpool. When her father was elected M.P. for Scarborough, the family moved to London where she studied at Clapham Secondary School for Girls before entering Newnham College
LEWIS, THOMAS (1868 - 1953), Principal of Brecon Memorial College Born 14 December 1868 at Pant-y-waun, Blaen-y-coed, Carmarthenshire, the fifth child of James and Anna Lewis, one of twelve children (although two died when young), including Howell ('Elfed'), the eldest. There were talented and gifted musicians on the mother's side of the family and this influenced Howell, the hymn-writer, and Thomas who had a good baritone voice and who, for a period, used to
LEWIS, THOMAS (1823 - 1900), Baptist minister, and historical writer Born 3 August 1823 in the parish of Llandeilo'r-fan, Brecknock. In 1829 the family moved to Cwmdŵr where he was baptised in 1837. He worked in the woollen mills at Cwmdŵr and Llanwrtyd and began to preach in 1840 at Pantycelyn. He was trained for the ministry at Horeb (Cwmdŵr), at the school kept by Brutus, near Pentre-bach, at D. Williams's (Independent) school at Tredwstan, and at an academy at
LEWIS, Sir THOMAS FRANKLAND (1780 - 1855), politician Born 14 May 1780 in London, he was the son of John Lewis of Harpton Court, and came of a family of distinction in the public and parliamentary life of Radnorshire. He became M.P. for Beaumaris in 1812, and sat successively for that borough, for Ennis (County Clare, Ireland), and for Radnorshire until 1834. He was given minor offices in Tory administrations (including that of treasurer of the navy
LEWIS, TIMOTHY (1877 - 1958), Welsh and Celtic scholar to the coalfield and he found work in a pit in Cwmaman, Aberdare. The family moved there a few years later and became members of Moriah Aman chapel (Congl.). The family was gifted: one son, Edward, became a school teacher in Cwmaman, an organist and conductor of the local ' Côr Mawr ' [ Cwmaman United Choir ]; Daniel, another son, graduated at University College, Cardiff, and became minister of
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

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