Dictionary of Welsh Biography

LEWIS, DAVID JOHN (Lewis Tymbl; 1879 - 1947), Congl. minister, popular preacher and lecturer than his day school. When he was 14 he was apprenticed as a tailor to Dafydd Jones, Brynawel, Hermon. He was one of nine apprentices noted for their talent. The discipline of this craft was to be reflected in the smart appearance of the preacher for the rest of his life. Religion and culture flourished in the area and under the firm influence of his mother, the inspiration of its literary figures
LEWIS, DAVID WYRE (1872 - 1966), minister and administrator (B) organizer in Wales for the Reorganizing Fund (Trysorfa Ad-drefniad; 1944). He was a prolific writer and published a short memoir in J.T. Rees (ed.), Detholiad o donau, anthemau a rhanganau Dafydd Lewis, Llanrhystud (1930), and Yr eglwysi a'r Undeb. Y weinidogaeth a'i pherigl heddiw (1939). He was at the forefront in the revival of Seren Gomer in 1909, was editor of the periodical, 1910-16, laying special
LEWIS, JOHN SAUNDERS (1893 - 1985), politician, critic and dramatist properly be regarded as Europe's first Romantic. In Braslun o Hanes Llenyddiaeth Gymraeg Hyd 1536 (1932) he maintained that Henry VIII's Acts of Union and the Protestant Reformation had cut Wales off from its European tradition. He also contributed essays to W. J. Gruffydd's journal Y Llenor, including 'Dafydd Nanmor' (1923), which dealt with the concept of perchentyaeth (literally 'householdership
LEWIS, LEWIS (Lewsyn yr Heliwr, Lewsyn Shanco Lewis; 1793 - ?), haulier and revolutionary at Swansea), but mainly because of his reprieve. This has variously been attributed to the influence of persons of consequence, generally on account of services in the hunting field, or to his having been the illegitimate son of one of the gentry. The fact that, although found guilty of felony, the charge against him was much less serious than that against Richard Lewis ('Dic Penderyn
LEWIS, LEWIS WILLIAM (Llew Llwyfo; 1831 - 1901), poet, novelist, and journalist ; with 'Caradog' in the national eisteddfod held at Aberdare, 1861; with 'Llewelyn' in the Rhyl eisteddfod, 1863; with 'Dafydd' in the national eisteddfod held at Aberystwyth, 1865; with 'Arthur y Ford Gron' in the Chester national eisteddfod, 1866; with 'Elias y Thespiad' in Ruthin eisteddfod, 1868; with 'Gruffydd ap Cynan' in the Wrexham national eisteddfod, 1888; and with 'Ioan y Disgybl Anwyl' in
LEWIS, RICHARD (Dic Penderyn; 1807/8 - 1831), miner and revolutionary martyr 1827, the Rev. Morgan Howells. There is no certain evidence of Dic Penderyn's movements until the outbreak of the Merthyr Tydfil riots of 1831. He was then a married man living at Merthyr, and was a miner by occupation. Rioting began on 2 June with an attack on the house of Joseph Coffin, clerk to the Court of Requests, and the destruction of his furniture (see Lewis Lewis, ' Lewsyn yr Heliwr
LEWIS, THOMAS (fl. 18th century), hymn-writer who lived at Ynys-wen in the parish of Llanegwad, Carmarthenshire, and, at another period, at Castellhywel, Cardiganshire. A volume of long hymns composed by him and entitled Caniadau Duwiol was published in 1795. This also contains a poem of praise to the author by David Richards (Dafydd Ionawr).
LLYWELYN ap RHISIART (fl. 1520-1565), Chief Bard of the Three Provinces', and one of the most notable poets in the history of Glamorgan observe how the interests of the aristocracy were being tightly bound to the throne by the gift of appointments and monastic possessions. In an elegy written to Rhys ap Siôn of Glyn Neath we hear a murmur of opposition to the English influences which were gradually spreading over Glamorgan and Gwent.
LEWYS, DAFYDD (d. 1727), cleric
LLAWDDEN (fl. 1450), cywyddwr His cywydd to Ieuan Gwyn ap Gwilym Fwyaf shows that he was a native of Loughor, but he was known as ' Llawdden of Machynlleth.' Most of his poems were written to the families of Thomas ap Rosier of Hergest, and Phylip ap Rhys and Maredudd Fychan of Maelienydd. In the Carmarthen Eisteddfod of 1451 he is known to have accused Gruffudd ap Nicolas of being bribed to give the chair to Dafydd ab Edmwnd
LLEWELYN, MARY PENDRILL (1811 - 1874), translator and writer Williams (Pantycelyn). It is said that she also translated a number of the ballads of Dafydd Nicolas. She died 19 November 1874.
LLEWELYN, SION (1690 - 1776), poet at Cefn, nearer to the home of Siôn, in 1747, with Siôn as one of the prominent promoters, and first deacon. The poet, a blacksmith by trade (although one manuscript calls him a weaver), died 1 January 1776, and was buried in the grounds of Hen Dŷ Cwrdd, Cefn. A marble memorial tablet was unveiled at the old chapel by his descendants on 17 August 1947. His grandson was William Harri, of Garw Dyle

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