Dictionary of Welsh Biography

LATHROP, RICHARD (d. 1764), bookseller and printer
LAUGHARNE, ROWLAND (d. 1676?), Parliamentary major-general close associations with Bristol, garrisoned Haverfordwest, Pembroke, and Tenby for the Parliament. The king entrusted his cause in west Wales to Richard Vaughan, second earl of Carbery. Carbery did not make any definite move until after the capture of Bristol by prince Rupert (26 July 1643). He then entered Pembrokeshire and occupied Haverfordwest and Tenby. Pembroke held out, under its mayor, John
LEIGH, EDMUND (1735? - 1819), Methodist cleric Born c. 1735, son of Richard Nash Leigh, curate of Llanwynno and Aberdare. He is the ' Edmund Leigh of Penrydd, co. Pembroke ' who was ordained deacon by the bishop of S. David's in 1760 and licensed as curate of Henllan Amgoed. He was ordained priest in 1761 and appointed curate of Llandybie. From 1762 until his death he was curate of Llanedi and he also ministered to the neighbouring parish of
LEWELLIN, LLEWELYN (1798 - 1878), cleric Born 3 August 1798, third son of Richard Lewellin of Tremains, Coity, near Bridgend, Glamorganshire, and his wife Maria, daughter of David Jones of Llan-gan (1736 - 1810). He was educated at Cowbridge grammar school and Jesus College, Oxford, graduating B.A. 1822, M.A. 1824, B.C.L. 1827, and D.C.L. 1829. He was ordained deacon in 1822 and priest in 1823 by the bishop of Oxford, and in 1826 was
LEWES, Sir WATKIN (1740 - 1821), lord mayor of London the Society of Ancient Britons; [he was the second president of the Cymmrodorion, in succession to Richard Morris ]. The last part of his life was clouded by financial difficulties; he was arrested for debt and ended his days (13 July 1821) in the London Coffee House on Ludgate Hill within the rules of the Fleet prison.
LEWIS family Llwyn-du, Llangelynnin Humphrey II (above); when Richard Davies the Quaker (1635 - 1708), visited Tyddyn-y-garreg, Owen Lewis had just got back from prison, and in the ensuing years we have frequent mention of distraint upon him for tithe. He too, like his friend, gave the Quakers a burial ground on his land; and the Friends of the district for a very long time held divine services in Tyddyn-y-garreg 'parlour.' LEWIS OWEN II
LEWIS family Van, LEWIS (1650 - 1674) He was born 30 July 1650, bequeathed the Glamorgan estate to his uncle Richard Lewis in tail male. RICHARD LEWIS (1623 - 1706) He purchased the manor of Corsham and was buried there. He certainly neglected and possibly dismantled Van. He died 7 October 1706. THOMAS LEWIS (died 1736) Son of Richard Lewis, was the last Lewis of Van. The date of his birth is not recorded but it must
LEWIS, DAVID (Ap Ceredigion; 1870 - 1948), cleric, poet, and hymn-writer of B.A. in 1896. In December of the same year he was made deacon by Bishop Richard Lewis of Llandaff, and licensed to the curacy of Ynys-hir, Rhondda. He received priest's orders in 1897, and in the same year went as curate to Cwm-parc and Treorchy. From there he went to Llanbryn-mair in 1900, and thence to Mallwyd in 1905. In 1906 he obtained a curacy at Llanllechid, and in 1915 he was appointed
LEWIS, FRANCIS (1713 - 1802), one of the signatories of the American Declaration of Independence , Monmouth (died 1726), had children: Francis, vicar of S. Woollos (who also died in 1726); his son, Dr. John Pettingal, was a celebrated antiquary (see D.N.B.); Richard, alderman of Newport; Mary, the residuary legatee and sole executrix under his will (who died a spinster in 1740); Anne, married to Morgan Lewis; and others. Mary Pettingal, by her will dated 9 April 1740, bequeathed the bulk of her
LEWIS, GRUFFYDD THOMAS (1873 - 1964), schoolmaster and a leading layman in the Presbyterian Church of Wales Connexion, and his services were acknowledged when he was elected to the chair of the South Wales Association in 1936-37, the centenary year of the death of Ebenezer Richard (1781 - 1837) who made Tregaron a household name in Wales. He married Annie, only child of John Thomas (1839 - 1921) and his wife Ann (née Williams) of Llanwrtyd in the Water Street chapel at Carmarthen on 27 December 1901. They had 5
LEWIS, Sir HENRY (1847 - 1923) North Wales, Calvinistic Methodist elder The son of THOMAS LEWIS (1821 - 1897), of Llanwenllwyfo, Anglesey (J. E. Griffith, Pedigrees, 257), founder (1840) of a flourishing corn and flour business at Bangor, who was M.P. for Anglesey 1886-94, following Richard Davies (1818 - 1896), and lectured so frequently on his travels in Palestine and elsewhere that he was universally known as 'Thomas Palestina Lewis' - he died 2 December 1897
LEWIS, HUGH (1562 - 1634), cleric, author, poet His forbears were bondsmen of the township of Bodellog near Caernarvon. His great-grandfather was known as William of Bodellog whose son William ap William married Margaret Bennett and had three sons - Ieuan, Rhys, and Lewis. This Lewis married Agnes, daughter of William Foxwist of Prysgol, a member of the lower gentry. Of this marriage four sons were born - Hugh, Griffith, Richard and John. Hugh

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