Dictionary of Welsh Biography

JOSHUA, SETH (1858 - 1925), minister (Presb.) Born 10 April 1858 in Ty Capel, Trosnant Uchaf, Pontypool, Monmouth, son of George Joshua and Mary (née Walden) his wife. He married Mary Rees, Llantrisant, in Neath, Glamorganshire, 23 September 1883, and they had eight children (one son, Peter, was a minister and a popular evangelist in America; another son, Lyn, was responsible with Mai Jones for the radio programme ' We'll keep a welcome in
KELSALL, JOHN (fl. 1683-1743), Quaker diarist Born in London in 1683. He came to Wales in 1702, and kept school (he was a man of good education) at Dolobran, Montgomeryshire, while also acting as clerk in the iron-works belonging to the Lloyd family of Dolobran. He was in the Lloyds ' service till c. 1743, being dispatched here and there in their industrial interests; e.g. he supervised their furnaces near Dolgelley in 1714-20 and again at
KELSEY, ALFRED JOHN (1929 - 1992), association football player many including Les Morris, a local football manager, who had been on Arsenal's books during the pre-war years. Morris arranged for the young Kelsey to receive trials with his former club, and the club was sufficiently impressed with his performance to offer him an immediate contract, and he signed for the Highbury giants in 1949. Initially he acted as the understudy to the dependable George Swindin
KEMEYS family Cefn Mabli, March 1822, J.P., D.L., for Monmouthshire and Somerset, colonel Somerset Militia. He married, as his first wife, 2 November 1848, Mary, daughter of George Frome, of Puncknoll, Dorset; as his second wife, 1873, Hannah Lewis; and, as his third, 1879, Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Fothergill, M.P., Tenby. He died 10 January 1891. HALSWELL MILBORNE KEMEYS-TYNTE (1852 - 1899), J.P. and D.L. Politics
KENRICK family Wynn Hall, Bron Clydwr, co-defendant in the suit before the Great Sessions at Wrexham (18 March 1788), in which the 'New' Meeting maintained against the 'Old' its right to use the graveyard devised by Daniel Lloyd (died 1655) to Morgan Llwyd's congregation; another son, SAMUEL KENRICK, a Unitarian and an accomplished linguist who travelled widely (as a tutor) and met Rousseau and Voltaire in France, joined his brother
KENYON family Gredington, Peel Hall, Kenyon of Peel by Peregrina, youngest daughter and coheiress of Robert Eddowes (above), by whom he had three sons - LLOYD (1775 - 1800), GEORGE (1776 - 1855), and THOMAS (1780 - 1851). He died at Bath 4 April 1802 and was succeeded by his second son GEORGE KENYON, 2nd lord Kenyon (1776 - 1855) He was educated at Harrow and Christ Church, Oxford - B.A. 1797; M.A. 1801; D.C.L. 1814, ' Custos Brevium ' of
KILMISTER, IAN FRASER (1945 - 2015), musician Ian Fraser Kilmister was born on 24 December 1945 in Stoke-on-Trent, the son of Sidney Davy Albert Kilmister and his wife Jessie Milda, 'June' (née Simpson). His father, a former RAF chaplain, deserted the family when Ian was just three months old and he was raised by his mother and grandmother in a small Staffordshire town. When he was ten years old his mother married George Willis and the
KYFFIN, EDWARD (c. 1558 - 1603), cleric and composer of metrical psalms It is believed that he was 'my brother Edward Kyffyn preacher' who is named in, and proved, the will of Morris Kyffin; if so, he was a son of Thomas Kyffin of Oswestry and Catherine the younger daughter of Robert Lloyd of Hartsheath, Flintshire. Very little is known about his career. He was born at Oswestry. He went to Jesus College, Cambridge, but he does not appear to have graduated. He was
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
LANGFORD family Allington, Humphrey Lloyd, sheriff of Montgomeryshire, 1540, and it was his grandson, Thomas Langford, who wrote the pedigree manuscript Bodewryd MS 102D), William, Roger, David, Mathew, Elizabeth, Catherine, and Ann. By his second wife, Marsli, daughter of John ab Ieuan ap Howell of Trefriw, he had Thomas, George, Owen, Jane, Ellen, Jane (2), and Alice. JOHN He married Catherine, daughter of John ap Harry Jervis
LEWES, WILLIAM (1652 - 1722), landowner and antiquary Of Llwynderw, Carmarthenshire, born 1652, the younger son of the Rev. John Lewes of Llysnewydd. He married (1), Cecil Lloyd of Vairdre, Cardiganshire, (2), Eleanor Pryce of Rhyd-y-benne. He was an outstanding genealogist, and acquired manuscripts from Henllys, Penybenglog, Vairdre, and Rhyd-y-gors. He wrote some 25 pedigree volumes, mainly based on the works of David Edwardes, and assisted Edward
LEWIS family Llwyn-du, Llangelynnin , Lewis Owen III. The latter died intestate, and administration was granted (17 September 1765) to his widow, Jane, daughter of Charles Lloyd (IV) of Dolobran - see the article on the Lloyd family of Dolobran. II. The Llwyn-du family issued, on one side, from Rhys, the fourth of the Lewis brothers named at the beginning of the previous paragraph. One of his daughters, ELIN, married OWEN HUMPHERY I ap

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