Dictionary of Welsh Biography

LEWIS, JOHN (1792? - 1816), Wesleyan missionary
LEWIS, JOHN (fl. 1759-1773), Quaker and author John Lewis was the author of Brief Observations on the History of Modern Enthusiasm, 1759. He translated into Welsh J. Crooksworth's Principles of Truth, under the title Egwyddorion o'r Gwirionedd (Carmarthen 1773). He exercised considerable influence upon the Welsh Quakers of his day in Pembrokeshire.
LEWIS, JOHN (GOMER) (1844? - 1914), Baptist minister and orator Born June 1843 (1844?) at Pensarn, Llangeler, Carmarthenshire, son of John Lewis, a tradesman and Baptist deacon. He was baptized at the age of 14, grew to maturity under the ministry of Benjamin Thomas (Myfyr Emlyn), and began to preach in 1862. In 1864 he left the Newcastle Emlyn grammar school and went to Haverfordwest Baptist College. In 1867 he was ordained minister of Salem chapel, Maes-teg
LEWIS, JOHN (fl. 1728-1755), printer and publisher
LEWIS, JOHN (Eos Glyn Wyre; 1836 - 1892), poet and musician Born 6 April 1836, the son of Lewis and Margaret Lewis, Hen Dŷ Mawr, Llanrhystud, Cardiganshire. The father, who was a good musician, was by trade a tailor and brought up his sons, John Lewis and David Lewis (1828 - 1908), to the same trade; a third son, Evan Lewis, was a shoemaker. John Lewis married Jane Davies, Felinganol, and on marriage went to reside at his wife's home; seven children were
LEWIS, JOHN (d. 1616?) Llynwene, Llanfihangel Nant Melan, barrister, and author of The History of Britain Born in the parish of Pencraig (Old Radnor), son of Hugh Lewis and Sibyl, daughter of Roger ap Watcyn Fychan, Hergest. W. Rowlands (Llyfryddiaeth, see under 1729) connects him, in error, with Maenor Owen, Pembrokeshire, and describes him as a great-grandfather of Richard Fenton, the Pembrokeshire historian. It is unlikely that he is the John Lewis who entered Lincoln's Inn, 28 February 1562-3
LEWIS, JOHN DANIEL VERNON (1879 - 1970), scholar, Independent minister, author, tutor and theological college principal
LEWIS, JOHN DAVID (1859 - 1914), bookseller, local historian, and founder of a printing press the name of William John Jones, who was to remain the head printer of Messrs. J. D. Lewis and Sons from 1892 until his death in 1955. In 1894 the business was moved from the Market Stores to the present building in the ' Gomer Press,' and from then on was confined to publishing and bookselling. The press was so named probably out of compliment to Joseph Harris (Gomer) whom J. D. Lewis admired. The
LEWIS, Sir JOHN HERBERT (1858 - 1933), lawyer and politician
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, JOHN SAUNDERS (1893 - 1985), politician, critic and dramatist published the 'Anglo-Welsh' play The Eve of St John (1921), and had taken his first job, as organiser of a scheme to develop rural libraries in Glamorganshire. In 1922 he was appointed to a lectureship in the Department of Welsh at University College Swansea, a post which he held until 1936. He married Margaret Gilcriest (1891-1984) in the Catholic church of Our Lady and St Michael in Workington
LEWIS, JOSHUA (1816 - 1879), Independent minister the pastor Evan Jones; at Tre-lech he began preaching. He entered Carmarthen Academy in 1834, and the reports on him there were exceptionally laudatory. In 1838 he was ordained as co-pastor of Henllan Amgoed - the senior pastor, John Lloyd (1775 - 1850) had been pastor of Henllan and its numerous 'branches' since 1805; but after Lloyd's death Lewis persuaded most of these to become separate churches

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