Dictionary of Welsh Biography

LLEWELLYN, DAVID TREHARNE (1916 - 1992), Conservative politician Artfully (1974), and a volume of Racing Quotations (1988). He wrote a regular column for the Welsh edition of the Sunday People and he also published columns in the Western Mail and its sister evening paper the South Wales Echo. He had married on 18 February 1950 Joan ('Jo') Williams, the second daughter of R. H. Williams of Bonvilston House, Bonvilston, near Cardiff, and they had two sons and a daughter
LLEWELLYN, THOMAS (1720? - 1783), Baptist minister and tutor the new Bible might be sent. It was also largely as the result of his initiative, coupled with monetary assistance from the Baptist fund, that the Welsh Baptist mission to North Wales was launched in 1776. He was a member of the Cymmrodorion in 1778. His will, proved 21 August 1783, refers to his wife, Mary, who was his executrix, his brothers Evan and Jenkin, his sister Mary Thomas of Castleton
LLEWELYN, DESMOND WILKINSON (1914 - 1999), actor stage roles, working with the Little Theatre Company and then the Forsyth Players (Matthew Forsyth). He met Pamela Mary Pantlin (1916-2001) through working with the Forsyth Players, as her sister was also in the company. They married in May 1938 in Kensington, and had two sons, Charles Ivor (b. 1949) and Justin Cather (1953-2012). His first acting appearance on screen was in 1939 in the Will Hay film
LLEWELYN, MARY PENDRILL (1811 - 1874), translator and writer Williams (Pantycelyn). It is said that she also translated a number of the ballads of Dafydd Nicolas. She died 19 November 1874.
LLEWELYN, SION (1690 - 1776), poet edition is Difyrrwch diniwaid … sef deunaw o Ganiadau … Gyd a Now o Hymnau duwiol. He was received as a member at the age of 18 into the old Nonconformist chapel of Cwm-y-glo, on the mountain-side between Merthyr and Aberdare by Roger Williams (1667 - 1730), the pastor. This pastor was an Arminian. Ultimately the Arminian members under their minister, Richard Rees, built a new chapel, the Hen Dŷ Cwrdd
LLEWELYN, THOMAS DAVID (Llewelyn Alaw; 1828 - 1879), musician Born 25 June 1828 at Llwydcoed, Aberdare, Glamorganshire, the son of David and Martha Llewelyn. He had learnt to play the harp by the time he was 8. At 11 he started work with his father, a collier, but left the coalmine in 1851 and devoted his whole time to music, poetry, and literature. He became the official harpist to the Williams family of Aberpergwm, in the valley of the river Neath, and to
LLEWELYN, WILLIAM CRAVEN (1892 - 1966), colliery owner, companies director, agriculturalist and specialist in forestry Born 4 June 1892 in Clydach, Swansea Valley, Glamorganshire, son of T. David Llewelyn. He married Doris Mary Bell in 1932. There were no children of the marriage. He was educated at Arnold College, Swansea, and the Technical College, Swansea, and subsequently graduated at the University College of North Wales, Bangor. Initially he was particularly interested in a mining career and to this end
LLOYD family Maesyfelin, -law on 3 November 1608. He married Mary, daughter of John Gwyn Stedman of Strata Florida, Cardiganshire, and had three sons and six daughters. He was king's attorney in Wales and the Marches, 1614-1622, was appointed to the Council of the Marches 3 December 1614, and was knighted 7 April 1622. He was recorder of Brecon, 1617-1636, puisne justice of Chester, 1622-1636, and chief justice of the
LLOYD family Peterwell, 1747 until his death in 1755. John Lloyd married (1) Elizabeth, daughter and coheiress of Sir Isaac Le Hemp (or Le Hoop), who is mentioned in Paul Whitehead The State Dunces, and (2) a Miss Savage. He was an intimate friend of many well-known men of the day including Henry Fox (afterwards lord Holland) Sir Charles Hanbury-Williams and Richard Rigby, the paymaster-general. In 1750 he became the owner
LLOYD family Dolobran, Owain Glyn Dŵr. His widow, Lucy, daughter of Griffith ab Ednyfed Lloyd of Bromfield, was then alive. His third son, DEIO AP LLYWELYN, was the first to be associated with Dolobran. (The Vaughan family of Llwydiarth, issued from the eldest son, Jenkin). Deio's first wife was Mary, daughter of Griffith Goch of Ruyton xi Towns or of Knockyn. The Vaughans of Glasgoed issued from this marriage, and David ap
LLOYD family Rhiwaedog, Rhiwedog, bards who are named below, Llywarch Hen, named by them as an ancestor of the Lloyd family, was himself a bard. Today we know (see Ifor Williams, Canu Llywarch Hen, 1935) that he was a chieftain who is the subject of the early Welsh 'saga' contained in the poems associated with his name. The older belief that he was a poet may account (in part only, of course) for the remarkable amount of patronage
LLOYD GEORGE family time as a valuer. He was also an elder of Capel Mawr (CM), Cricieth; a disagreement arose between the members which was settled when the minister, John Owen, and about half the membership, including Richard Owen, left Capel Mawr to establish Seion (CM) in Cricieth. Margaret was educated at Dr. Williams' School, Dolgellau; she was a faithful member of Seion chapel, Cricieth, throughout her life. She

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