Dictionary of Welsh Biography

JONES, THOMAS OWEN (Gwynfor; 1875 - 1941), librarian, dramatist, actor and producer a keen follower of eisteddfodau and he was a drama adjudicator at the national eisteddfod many times. His office at the library became a popular meeting place for leading literary figures in the area, like E. Morgan Humphreys, Meuryn (R.J. Rowlands) and Cynan (Sir Cynan (Albert) Evans-Jones). He was one of the first to broadcast in Welsh from Manchester in the 1930s. He died 22 August 1941 and was
KENRICK family Wynn Hall, Bron Clydwr, development of Nonconformity there and in Merioneth in the 17th and 18th century. EDWARD KENRICK (died 1741), Bron Clydwr The eldest son of Samuel Kenrick (died 1716) of Fawnog, Bersham, and the grandson of Edward Kenrick (died 1693) of Gwersyllt. Both of these had belonged to the 'Old Meeting' - the congregation first established in Wrexham by Morgan Llwyd - and had provided the premises in which it
KINSEY, WILLIAM MORGAN (1788 - 1851), cleric and traveller Born at Abergavenny, son of Robert Morgan Kinsey, solicitor and banker at that town, and his wife Caroline Hannah, daughter of Sir James Harington, Bt. He was educated at Oxford (matriculated 28 November 1805, scholar of Trinity College, B.A. 1809, M.A. 1813, B.D. 1822, Fellow of his college 1815, dean 1822, vice-president 1823, bursar 1824). In 1827 he made a tour in Portugal, publishing next
LAKE, MORGAN ISLWYN (1925 - 2018), minister and pacifist Islwyn Lake was born on 14 March 1925 at Glasfryn, Llanwnda near Goodwick, Pembrokeshire, one of the three children of Morgan David Lake (1885-1982), headteacher, and his wife Annie Jessie (née Griffiths, 1894-1955). His grandfather on his mother's side, Ebenezer Griffiths, was one of the founder members of Ebeneser, the first Congregational chapel in the area. After primary school at Enner
LANGFORD family Allington, constableship of Ruthin castle to him and his son EDWARD, 1447. Richard Langford died 12 July 1466, two years after his wife, Alice, daughter and heiress of Howell ap Griffith ap Morgan of Hopedale, widow of John ap Richard Wettenhale. Their heir was the Edward Langford mentioned above. Henry VI granted him the offices of escheator and attorney of the lordship of Denbigh, for his personal service against
LEVI, THOMAS (1825 - 1916), Calvinistic Methodist minister, editor of Trysorfa y Plant, and author South Wales Association in 1887. He played a prominent part in the setting up of monuments to Daniel Rowland, Thomas Charles, Williams of Pantycelyn, and bishop Morgan. He continued to preach until 1910 and to edit Trysorfa y Plant until 1911. He was nearly 91 when he died 16 June 1916. A list of his original works and of his translations of hymns was prepared at the request of the N.L.W., and this
LEVI, THOMAS ARTHUR (1874 - 1954), professor of law Faculty of Law (inaugural lecture) (1901); Apêl at ddirwestwyr (1916); Legal education in Wales (1916); ' The laws of Hywel Dda in the light of Roman and Early English law ', Aberystwyth Studies (1928); ' The law department University College of Wales ', in Iwan Morgan, ed., The College by the Sea (1928); The Story of Public Administration and Social Service. Suggestions for the formation of a school of
LEWIS family Llwyn-du, Llangelynnin (Dolgelley) and became the mother of Rowland Ellis. OWEN HUMPHERY II (1629 - 1695? -christened 13 April 1629) became a very prominent Quaker, after having been a disciple of Morgan Llwyd; his name (with those of Owen Lewis II of Tyddyn-y-garreg (below), and others), appears in a letter written to Morgan Llwyd; he was brought before the magistrates in April 1654 for protesting against the Protector; with
LEWIS family Van, purchased the manor of Roath-Keynsham, part of the estate of Keynsham abbey, and was sheriff of Glamorgan in 1548, 1555, and 1559. His wife was Ann, daughter of Sir William Morgan, of Pencoyd, Monmouth, a member of the Tredegar family. THOMAS LEWIS Edward Lewis's son. He was sheriff of Glamorgan in 1569. His first wife was Margaret Gamage of Coity, at the time widow of Miles Mathew of Llandaff. He added
LEWIS, DAVID (Baker, Charles; 1617 - 1679), Jesuit martyr Born at Abergavenny, son of the Rev. Morgan Lewis, first known headmaster of Abergavenny grammar school, and of Margaret Pritchard, niece to Fr. Augustine Baker, and herself a practising Roman Catholic. This fact, together with the number of recusant children attending the school and the interest taken in them by Fr. Baker, led to questions about Morgan Lewis in the Parliament of 1626; but he was
LEWIS, DAVID MORGAN (1851 - 1937), Congregational minister, afterwards professor of physics Born 27 September at Henllan, a small farm situated between Eglwyswrw and Felindre, north Pembrokeshire, the eldest of the five children of Evan Lewis (1813 - 1896), minister of the Congregational church at Brynberian, and his wife, Catherine Morgan, of the parish of Llan-gan, near Whitland, and a sister to William Morgan (1818 - 1884). He received his early education at Palmer's School, Cardigan
LEWIS, FRANCIS (1713 - 1802), one of the signatories of the American Declaration of Independence Julia Delafield (his great-granddaughter), in her Biographies of Francis Lewis and Morgan Lewis (New York, 1877) speaks of him as being born at Llandaff, the son of the 'Rector of the Parish,' his mother being 'the daughter of the Rev. Dr. Pettingal, also a clergyman of the Established Church and settled at Carnarvon.' The Dictionary of American Biography, on evidence supplied by one of his

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