Dictionary of Welsh Biography

JONES, WILLIAM (Bleddyn; 1829? - 1903), antiquary, local historian, geologist, and collector of folk-lore parish of Beddgelert at an eisteddfod there in 1860, and it was this essay and other materials collected by him which formed the basis of Bedd Gelert, 1899, by D. E. Jenkins. He was also successful in essay competitions on Conway and its neighbourhood, at the Conway national eisteddfod in 1861, and on the history of Eifionydd, at the Madoc eisteddfod in 1872. His essay on the geology of Caernarvonshire
LEWIS, DAVID (1828 - 1908), musician Born 12 November 1828 at Hen Dŷ Mawr, Llanrhystud, Cardiganshire, the son of Lewis and Margaret Lewis. The father was a good vocalist and it was he, together with Thomas Jenkins, the teacher of John Roberts (Ieuan Gwyllt), who gave the son his first lessons in music. When he was 15 he began to compose and to conduct singing classes. His first prize for a hymn-tune was won in a competition at
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
LLEWELLYN, THOMAS (1720? - 1783), Baptist minister and tutor wife, Catherine, who died and was buried 12 February 1716/1717, was probably the mother of his sons Jenkin and Evan, half brothers, therefore, to Thomas and Mary. Lewelin married again and his third wife Elizabeth Jenkins is named in his will. Anne Lewis James's parents were probably Lewis James and Elizabeth Rosser of Eglwys Ilan. Their son and heir was James Lewis, perhaps the guardian of his
LLEWELYN, WILLIAM (1735 - 1803), Independent minister April 1769 at latest, and Brown (Free Churches of Leominster) says that he went to Walsall from Hereford. Llewelyn figures in the Leominster Moravian congregation-diary (excerpts in Trafodion Cymdeithas Hanes Bedyddwyr Cymru, 1935, 14-16); after the death of his wife (a daughter of John Jenkins, pastor at Bromyard) his mind became unsettled, and though nominally pastor at Walsall he wandered around
LLOYD family Dolobran, , bishop of St Asaph, and other clergy. In 1682 he visited Quakers in Herefordshire and Worcestershire, and placed the cause of the Bristol Quakers before Sir Leoline Jenkins. He married Ann Lawrence in 1686, his first wife having died in 1685 (buried at Cloddiau Cochion). He died at the house of his daughter Elizabeth Pemberton in Birmingham in 1698, and his widow, in 1708. They were buried in the Bull
LLOYD, JOHN (1638 - 1687), principal of Jesus College, Oxford, and bishop of S. Davids the son of Morgan Lloyd of Pendine, he came of an ancient Carmarthenshire family. He matriculated at Merton College, Oxford, 10 March 1656-7, graduated B.A. 1659, M.A. 1662, B.D. on 15 March 1669/70, and D.D. in 1674. He became a Fellow of Jesus College soon after the Restoration, and was senior Fellow when, in 1673, he was elected principal to succeed Sir Leoline Jenkins. He was vice-chancellor
LLOYD, Sir JOHN CONWAY (1878 - 1954), public figure Born 18 April 1878, in Dinas Mansion, Brecknockshire, the only son of Thomas Conway Lloyd and his wife Katherine Eliza Campbell-Davys of Neuadd-Fawr, near Llandovery. His mother died when he was only four years old and he lost his father in 1893. He was educated at Broadstairs School, Eton, and Christ Church, Oxford. On a journey to the continent in 1899, he met Marion Clive Jenkins at Florence
LLOYD, SIMON (1756 - 1836), Methodist cleric , Simon (born 1756), is the subject of the present notice. He is said to have been schooled at Bath, and a letter by Thomas Charles (D. E. Jenkins, Thomas Charles, i, 153) shows that he also went to Queen Elizabeth's school at Carmarthen. In April 1775 he went to Jesus College, Oxford, graduating in 1779 (Foster, Alumni Oxonienses). He was ordained, and was curate at Olveston from 1779 till 1783; then
LLYWELYN-WILLIAMS, ALUN (1913 - 1988), poet and literary critic Mabinogion through Charlotte Guest's translation. Pressure from his father, who felt passionately about Wales and the Welsh language, led Alun to study Welsh in the sixth form at Cardiff High School for Boys where he was a pupil from 1925 to 1931. He was tutored in the language and its literature by the history teacher, R. T. Jenkins, and in 1977 he repayed his debt by publishing an introduction to the
LORT family Stackpole, Anne Jenkins, daughter of a cleric in Llanbadarn-fawr, Cardiganshire; she died in 1767; there is mention of some of her property in Llanbadarn in Morris Letters, ii, 565, and Add. M.L., pp. 898, 912, 925. The eldest of their children was MICHAEL LORT, born at Prickaston in 1725 (18 at his matriculation from Trinity College, Cambridge, in mid-June 1743) who was at ' Mr. Evans's school' at Tenby before
LYNN-THOMAS, Sir JOHN (1861 - 1939), surgeon theories were set forth by him in a book called The Key of All Wales. Much to his chagrin, however, his conclusions were not acceptable to professional archaeologists. In 1892 he married Mary Rosena, only daughter of Edward Jenkins, Cardiff. He died at Llwyndyrus, 21 September 1939.

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