Dictionary of Welsh Biography

LEWIS, THOMAS (1821 - 1897), founder of a corn and flour business - see LEWIS, Sir HENRY
LEWIS, THOMAS ARNOLD (1893 - 1952), insurance manager, treasurer of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion Born 20 April 1893, son of Captain Thomas Lewis and Elizabeth (née Jones) his wife, Manor Hall, Aberaeron, Cardiganshire. He was educated locally and at Ardwyn School, Aberystwyth, before joining an insurance firm, eventually becoming insurance manager of a branch of the Alliance Assurance Co. in the West End of London. He was a member of the Court of Assistants of the Worshipful Co. of Horners
LEWIS, Sir THOMAS FRANKLAND (1780 - 1855), politician
LEWIS, THOMAS PALESTINA - see LEWIS, Sir HENRY
LEWIS, TIMOTHY (1877 - 1958), Welsh and Celtic scholar churches in the Clunderwen area, but died aged 34; another son was Thomas John who graduated at University College, Bangor. He was a schoolteacher in Aberdare, and rose to be director of education for Aberdare. The poet, Alun Lewis, was his son. Most probably Timothy Lewis left school at the age of 13 and worked in the mines until he was 22. It is also likely that he had began preaching by then and set
LEWIS, TITUS (1773 - 1811), Baptist minister Born 21 February 1773 at Kilgerran, son of Lewis Thomas, minister of Cilfowyr - his mother a sister to D. Evans (1740 - 1790). His father taught him the craft of shoemaking. He was baptised at Blaen-y-waun, began to preach in 1794, and was ordained there in 1798. As he had married (20 November 1800) a woman from Carmarthen who did not like S. Dogmael's, he moved to Carmarthen in 1801 to minister
LEWIS, WILLIAM (fl. 1786-1794), hymn-writer lived at Aber-mawr, Llangloffan, Pembrokeshire. He was a weaver by trade and is said to have excelled in the making of beautiful and artistic carpets. His brother, Thomas Lewis, was minister of the Baptist church at Llangloffan, where he himself was, for many years, a deacon. His hymns, 'set forth by Morris Griffiths ' (fl. 1766-1805), were published in Galar a Gorfoledd y Saint; neu Hymnau
LEWIS, WILLIAM (1835? - 1918), printer and publisher Cheltenham. The business prospered greatly under William Lewis, the printing and publishing business becoming, in time, one of the largest in Wales; for full details see Ifano Jones, Hist. of Printing and Printers in Wales, and an article by the same author entitled ' The House of Lewis, Cardiff,' in The Pointer, No. 1, October 1922. William Lewis, who had retired from active participation in the business
LEWIS, WILLIAM BEVAN (1847 - 1929), alienist Born at Cardigan 21 May 1847, to William Thomas Lewis (formerly of Trefgarn, Pembrokeshire) and Jane (Mansel Bevan) his wife, and educated at Cardigan and Guy's hospital. He practised medicine at Burry Port for four years, and then joined the staff of the West Riding Asylum at Wakefield, where he remained for thirty-five years, eventually becoming its medical director. For twenty-five years, too
LEWIS, WILLIAM MORRIS (1839 - 1917), minister (Presb.) Treffynnon chapel near their home, and were very supportive of the cause. He was Moderator of the South Wales Association in 1893-94. In his day he was considered to be a theologian and Biblical scholar of some standing. He corresponded with scholars like Adolf Harnack and H.M. Gwatkin; he was friendly also with Thomas Charles Edwards. He contributed extensively to Y Traethodydd, Y Drysorfa and to English
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
LEWYS ap HYWEL (fl. c. 1560-1600), poet , and an awdl to Thomas Pryse of S. Asaph; two religious poems, one of them being anti-Papist in treatment, also remain.

Search results

1633 - 1644 of 2952 for "thomas jones glan"