Dictionary of Welsh Biography

LEWIS, HYWEL DAVID (1910 - 1992), university professor and philosopher Hywel D. Lewis was born in Llandudno 21 May 1910 and brought up in Waunfawr, Caernarfon, the son of David John Lewis, a minister in the Presbyterian Church of Wales, and his wife Rebecca (née Davies). He was educated at Caernarfon Grammar School where he showed no great distinction and afterwards at the University College of North Wales (as it then was) at Bangor where he studied Philosophy, a
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 (fl. 1646-1656) Glasgrug,, Puritan author appeared in 1646 under the title Contemplations upon these Times. In his correspondence with Richard Baxter and Dr. John Ellis (died 1665), Dolgelley, he advocated the setting up of a national college in Wales for training ministers. In 1656 he published Some Seasonable and Modest Thoughts. In the same year he was made a J.P. for the county of Cardigan.
LEWIS, JOHN (fl. 1728-1755), printer and publisher
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 (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 (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 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

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