Dictionary of Welsh Biography

LEWIS, THOMAS ARNOLD (1893 - 1952), insurance manager, treasurer of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion , and High Sheriff of Cardiganshire in 1949. He assisted Sir John Cecil-Williams and Sir Wynn Wheldon with the financial aspect of the appeal launched in 1937 to publish the Dictionary of Welsh Biography, and he succeeded T. D. Slingsby-Jenkins as treasurer of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion in 1950. On 8 September 1924 he married Eleanora Margaret Evans in Charing Cross Chapel, and they had
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
LEWIS, WILLIAM (1835? - 1918), printer and publisher Born at Tewkesbury. The printing business at Cardiff, founded by John Bird in 1791 and conducted in 1855 by Hugh Bird, was transferred by the latter in 1866 to his two assistants, William Lewis and John Williams, who worked in partnership until 1873 when William Lewis became sole proprietor. Lewis had, prior to coming to Cardiff, served as an assistant in a book and stationery establishment at
LEWIS, Sir WILLIAM THOMAS (first BARON MERTHYR of SENGHENYDD), (1837 - 1914), coal magnate Born 5 August 1837, son of Thomas William Lewis, engineer to the Plymouth iron-works (Merthyr Tydfil), was at school under Taliesin Williams, but at 13 was articled to his father. In 1855 he became assistant-engineer in the service of the Bute estate, and in 1864 mineral agent to that estate. In the same year he married Anne, daughter of WILLIAM REES, owner of Llety-Shenkin colliery, Aberdare
LHUYD, EDWARD (1660 - 1709), botanist, geologist, antiquary, and philologist and Vocabulary ' - a translation by Moses Williams from the French of Julian Manoir; (5) ' Some Welsh Words Omitted in Dr. Davies's Dictionary '; (6) ' A Cornish Grammar '; (7) ' MSS. Britannicorum Catalogus '; (8) ' A British Etymologicon ' - by David Parry; (9) ' A Brief Introduction to the Irish or Ancient Scottish Language ' - an extract from a grammar published by F. O. Molloy in Rome in 1677
LINDEN, DIEDERICH WESSEL (d. 1769), medical doctor and mineralogist Diederich Wessel Linden was most likely born during the early eighteenth century in the small village of Hemmerde, Westphalia, Germany, the son of Thomas Linden, and his wife Mary. The circumstances of his upbringing remain obscure. However, it is likely he received some schooling that acquainted him with the foundations of mining and minerology. While identifying later in life as medical doctor
LIVSEY, GEORGE FREDERICK (1834 - 1923), bandmaster (born 1834) died in 1873. The couple had five children, James (born 1858), George (born 1860), Mary (born 1864), Sarah (born 1865) and Ralph (born 1866). The latter became a horn player with the Coldstream Guards and later at the Royal Italian Opera, Covent Garden. The Cyfarthfa band as a truly great ensemble did not outlive Crawshay's control of the Cyfarthfa ironworks, and early in the twentieth
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.

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