Dictionary of Welsh Biography

LEWIS LLOYD, EMMELINE (1827 - 1913), one of the first women to climb in the Alps (1835 - 1916), it is doubtful whether any of them went in for climbing before her. Lucy Walker always climbed with her father and her brother but Emmeline's usual companion was another woman, Isabella Straton. She also climbed with her younger sister, Bessie, who married William Williams, the vicar of Llandyfaelog. Her usual guide, Jean Charlet of Argentière, spent a year as a groom at Nantgwyllt
LEWIS of CAERLEON (fl. 1491), mathematician, theologian, doctor of medicine, and teacher at Oxford a grant for life to be one of the knights of the king's alms in the chapel or church of S. Mary the Virgin, S. George the Martyr, and S. Edward the Confessor at Windsor castle, a grant which was repeated in the same terms 14 September 1491. The King's Book of Payments of May 1510 records a reward of £100 in gold to Master Lewis, the princess of Castile's physician, but it is not certain whether
LEWIS, Sir ALFRED (EDWARD) (1868 - 1940), banker Provincial bank, of which Lewis became chief general manager in 1924 and deputy-chairman in 1934. He was knighted in 1921 (K.B.E. 1931), and was honorary LL.D. of Birmingham (1930) and of Wales (1935), and served on many public bodies, including the Council of the National Library of Wales. His wife (1897) was Mary Roberts, of Leeds. He died 21 February 1940. His brother, HUGH (DAVIES) LEWIS (1866 - 1937
LEWIS, BENJAMIN WALDO (1877 - 1953), Baptist minister Born 7 September 1877 at Holyhead, Anglesey, the son of John (according to family tradition, but David according to the biographies) Lewis, (born 29 August 1829) from Bridell, and Anne Lewis (née Williams, in February 1848 or 1849) from Fishguard. They married at Newport, Monmouth on 31 January 1871. His father was, according to tradition, of the lineage of a brother of Titus Lewis while his wife
LEWIS, DAVID JOHN (Lewis Tymbl; 1879 - 1947), Congl. minister, popular preacher and lecturer sermons. These always covered a single topic and reached a climax to end with unexpected suddenness. He received many invitations to preach from all over Wales. His most famous and best known sermons were ' Do you wish to be made whole? ' ('Roll up the mat'), ' Mary breaking the ointment box.' ('She broke the alabaster box'), ' Cast your bread on the surface of the water,' ' They departed into their
LEWIS, DAVID VIVIAN PENROSE (1st Baron Brecon), (1905 - 1976), politician Born 14 August 1905, the son of Alfred William and Elizabeth Mary Lewis of Craiglas, Talybont-on-Usk, Breconshire. He was educated at Monmouth School to the age of 16 when he left to work with his father who owned stone quarries and slag merchants. He made a considerable contribution to the development of the quarrying side of the business, which became the largest and most advanced in Wales. At
LEWIS, EDWARD ARTHUR (1880 - 1942), historian son of Maurice and Elizabeth Lewis, born at Nanty Mines, Llangurig, Montgomeryshire, 6 January 1880. Educated at Oswestry, Llanidloes, U.C.W., Aberystwyth, and the London School of Economics, he was appointed assistant-lecturer in Welsh history at U.C.W., Aberystwyth, 1910; professor of economics in 1912; first Sir John Williams professor of Welsh history in 1930. In 1925 he married Elizabeth
LEWIS, EMLYN EVANS (1905 - 1969), plastic surgeon organ that engendered his initial interest in plastic surgery. His kindness was legendary and his memory faultless. He was an avid collector of period clocks, and eventually became a very knowledgeable horologist. He was also a keen Freemason, being master of several lodges. He died in Cardiff Royal Infirmary, 14 May 1969, and was survived by his wife (Mary Cooper, when he married 28 October 1939) and
LEWIS, EVAN (1818 - 1901), dean of Bangor company of men like Morris Williams (Nicander), Griffith Arthur Jones, and Philip Constable Ellis (all three separately noticed), he strove vigorously and successfully to propagate the principles and practices of the Oxford Movement in his diocese. At Llanllechid, he swept away the old custom of substituting contemporary hymns for the ' Te Deum ' and the ' Magnificat '; he insisted on chants and upon
LEWIS, EVAN (1788? - 1864), Dissenting minister concluding paragraphs of the article Lewis and Owen families. He migrated to north Cardiganshire where he is stated to have joined the young Wesleyan Methodist church at Tre'r Ddôl. By 1819 he was living in Little Darkgate Street, Aberystwyth, having married Mary James Thomas. He was then a lay preacher. In 1820 or 1821 (the first christening recorded in his Cilgwyn register was on 9 November 1821) he
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, GEORGE (c. 1640? - 1709?), cleric and author September 1709. A translation of An earnest exhortation to Householders, by Robert Nelson, attributed to him by Moses Williams, was published in London in 1704.

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