Dictionary of Welsh Biography

KYFFIN, EDWARD (c. 1558 - 1603), cleric and composer of metrical psalms following Kyffin's epistle dedicatory giving the reasons which prompted him to undertake the work. In view of what Morris Kyffin says in the preface to Deffynniad Ffydd Eglwys Loegr, 1595, regarding the need for a metrical version of the psalms in Welsh, it is not improbable that it was at his instigation that his brother Edward undertook the task. Thomas Salisbury, in a letter to Sir John Wynn of Gwydir
KYFFIN, MORRIS (c. 1555 - 1598), writer and soldier it is more than likely that he was the son of Tomos Kyffin and his wife, Catrin Lloyd, both of whom belonged to county families living near Oswestry. All that we know about his education is that he studied poetry under William Llŷn and that, later on, in London, 1578-80, he was one of the pupils and friends of the celebrated John Dee. About 1580-2 he was tutor to lord Buckhurst's sons. He wrote a
KYFFIN, RICHARD, dean of Bangor He was not connected with any branch of the better-known family of that name. It is very likely that he was the Richard ap John or Ris ap Ieuan ap Ris ap Gruffydd, rector of Gyffin in the diocese of Bangor, 'the son of unmarried parents,' who in 1470 received a papal dispensation, on account of his illegitimacy, for promotion to holy orders. As dean he appears to have been an active supporter of
LACY (DE) family, lords Ewyas, Weobley, had become involved in the affairs of Llywelyn and William de Breos), thereafter appears as a staunch supporter of the Crown, being among the marcher lords on the side of John in the crisis of 1215, and on that of Henry III during the Marshal rising of 1233. Hugh, 1st earl of Ulster, proved less amenable; he spent many years in exile and may, for a short time, have been a fugitive in Wales. William
LACY (DE) family, constables of Chester Halton, there by the Welsh. His son JOHN (died 1240) became first De Lacy earl of Lincoln by right of marriage. The latter's grandson, HENRY DE LACY, third earl of Lincoln (died 1311), who added the earldom of Salisbury to the family titles by his first marriage with Margaret Longespée, was the most powerful and influential member of this family in the affairs both of England and of Wales. One of the closest
LANGFORD family Allington, The pedigree books state that this family came from Leicestershire to Ruthin with one of the Greys, lords of that place. The earliest records of the family in Wales show that JOHN LANGFORD was steward of Dyffryn Clwyd and constable of Ruthin castle between 1403 and 1412. Edmund, lord Grey, granted the receivership of the lordship of Ruthin to RICHARD LANGFORD, 1441, son of the said John, and the
LANGFORD, JOHN (1640? - 1715/6?)
LAUGHARNE, ROWLAND (d. 1676?), Parliamentary major-general The son of John Laugharne of S. Brides, Pembrokeshire, and his wife, Janet, daughter of Sir Hugh Owen of Orielton in that county. In his youth he was page to Robert Devereux, third earl of Essex, and he may have accompanied him on military service in the Low Countries. When the Civil War broke out in August 1642, some of the leading gentry in south Pembrokeshire, supported by merchants who had
LAWS, EDWARD (1837 - 1913), historian was the eldest son of admiral John Milligen Laws (born 1799) of Marchfield House, Binfield, Berks., and Mary (1815 - 1899), daughter of Charles Delamotte Mathias (1777 - 1851), of Lamphey Court and Llangwaran, Pembrokeshire. His parents were married on 25 June 1836 and he was born on 17 April 1837 and christened in Lamphey church on 4 July. He was educated at Rugby and Wadham College, Oxford
LEACH, ARTHUR LEONARD (1869 - 1957), historian, geologist and archaeologist Born at Tenby, 12 November 1869, elder son of John and Sarah Leach of Tenby. John Leach (1841 - 1916), having been a printer with the Tenby Observer, established his own printing and publishing business in the town and launched a successful rival local newspaper, to which his younger son Ernest H. Leach subsequently succeeded; both sons shared his antiquarian interests which may have been
LEATHART, WILLIAM DAVIES (d. after 1840), historian of the Gwyneddigion Society of London Society of London. Instituted M.DCC.LXX., was published in London by Hugh Pierce Hughes, in 1831. This has proved a most valuable source-book for the history of the Society and an important contribution to the story of London - Welsh life at the end of the 18th century and the first thirty years of the 19th. It is also a source-book for the history of the eisteddfodau sponsored by the Gwyneddigion. He
LEE, ROWLAND (d. 1543), bishop of Coventry and Lichfield (which included at that time what later became the diocese of Chester) (1534-1543), and president of the Council in Wales and the Marches for the same period monastic establishments; he had also been closely associated with Thomas Cromwell, and was destined to continue that association after he came to Ludlow (see his letters to Cromwell preserved in the P.R.O.). When he followed another bishop (John Voysey, bp. of Exeter) as president, he found that his predecessor had left him a legacy of lawlessness, partly the result of weak administration. He realized

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