Dictionary of Welsh Biography

LANGFORD family Allington, Richard, duke of York, 4 February 1460. He married Ellen (died 1465), daughter of John Dutton, and died 5 November 1500. It was their son, JOHN LANGFORD, that first resided at Allington as the husband of Catherine, daughter and heiress of William ap David (died 1476) ap Griffith of that place. He died 26 December 1531. Their son was the old RICHARD LANGFORD (died 1586), Literature and Writing History
LEEKE, SAMUEL JAMES (1888 - 1966), Baptist minister 1915. He was ordained on 14 February 1916 as the minister of Seion, Cwmaman, Aberdare, and he was subsequently installed as minister, on 16 February 1925, at Siloam, Brynaman and on 5 October 1931 at Bethesda, Swansea (on the occasion of the centenary of the re-location there of the church from Back Road). His preaching combined the passion of evangelism with breadth of learning. One of the notable
LESTRANGE family Great Ness, Cheswardine, Knockin, JOHN LESTRANGE (died c. 1269) witnessed the treaty between Dafydd ap Gruffydd and Henry III in May 1240, was appointed in March 1241 to try Dafydd, and in January 1245 was a commissioner to make peace with him. HAWISE, daughter of this John Lestrange, married Gruffydd ap Gwenwynwyn. In the years 1244-5 John Lestrange wrote to Henry III telling of Gruffydd's support for the English cause; he aided
LEWES, ERASMUS (1663? - 1745), cleric The sixth and youngest son of Captain John Lewes (below), Gernos, in the parish of Llangunllo ('Llanvayer ' according to Foster, Alumni Oxonienses), Cardiganshire. He entered Jesus College, Oxford, 22 February 1683/4, aged 20, graduating in 1688. He became vicar of Roch, Pembrokeshire, 16 June 1692, and vicar of Brawdy, Pembrokeshire, 5 March 1694. In 1695 he became rector of Betws Bledrws and
LEWIS family Llwyn-du, Llangelynnin is perhaps better known as a poet. One of his poems was included in Blodeugerdd Cymry (284-5), and Cantref Meirionydd prints (232-4) a set of englynion addressed by him to the poet Siôn Dafydd Las of Nannau (John Davies, died 1694) in rebuke of the bard's irregular life; see also NLW MS 559B, Cwrtmawr MS 128A, and Swansea MS. 2. None the less, he too was a Quaker. In view of the custom (see the
LEWIS family, printers and publishers - 1960), wife of David Lewis. She was the only daughter of Timothy and Hannah Hughes of Plasnewydd, Llanllwni, Carmarthenshire; she had four brothers, John, William, David and Tim. (John became a lecturer in education at Aberystwyth and held chairs in the same subject at the universities of Witwatersrand and McGill, Montreal, where he died in July 1977). Mary was born 5 February 1891 and was educated
LEWIS GLYN COTHI (fl. 1447-1486), one of the greatest of the 15th century Welsh bards corroborative evidence. His wife is not mentioned in his poems, but he had a son, John, who died at the age of 5. He sang much to the gentry of Carmarthenshire, south Cardiganshire, and Radnorshire, and his best work is found in these poems. His zeal for Jasper Tudor was revived towards the end of his life, and, as was natural, vaticinatory elements became more prominent in his poetry. None of his poems can
LEWIS, Sir ALFRED (EDWARD) (1868 - 1940), banker ., formed to deal with the situation after the Japanese earthquake of 1923. A governor of the London School of Economics, he was sheriff of Anglesey in 1934-5. He took great interest in flying, and at 50 obtained his pilot's certificate. His wife (1891), Grace Mary Edmunds, was the daughter of William Edmunds (see Edmunds, Mary Anne), by his second marriage. He died at Birkenhead 8 March 1937.
LEWIS, ALUN (1915 - 1944), poet . He taught for a time at Lewis' School, Pengam, but without waiting to be called up joined the Army in May 1940. He had begun to contribute to literary journals in 1938, and in 1940-41 was a mover in the 'Caseg Broadsheets' venture. On 5 July 1941 he married Gweno Ellis of Aberystwyth. This same year appeared his first volume of poems, Raiders' Dawn, and in 1942 a volume of short stories, The Last
LEWIS, CHARLES PRYTHERCH (1853 - 1923), Welsh Rugby footballer and Oxford 'triple Blue' council from 1889 to 1920 and in 1899 was made an alderman. He was mayor of the borough during 1894-5 and 1904-5. In 1898 he was made J.P. (Carmarthenshire). He died 27 May 1923.
LEWIS, DAVID (1848 - 1897), lawyer ' The Welshman of English Literature,' in Cymm., 1882, and Red Dragon, 1886; ' The English Statutes relating to Wales,' in Wales 1894-5; ' The Court of the President and Council of Wales and the Marches 1478-1575,' in Cymm., 1897; ' Notes on the Charters of Neath Abbey,' in Archæologia Cambrensis, 1887; ' A Progress through Wales in the 17th century ' (i.e. of Henry, duke of Beaufort), in Cymm., 1883
LEWIS, DAVID WYRE (1872 - 1966), minister and administrator (B) and Eifionydd Temperance Association. Being a pacifist through and through, he was a member of the group which initiated Y Deyrnas, October 1916, and secretary and recorder for the Peace Conference which was convened at Llandrindod 3-5 September 1917. In 1940-41 he was chairman of the Committee for safeguarding Welsh Culture, and when it joined the National Union of Welsh Societies in 1941 to form

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