Dictionary of Welsh Biography

LEWIS, Sir ALFRED (EDWARD) (1868 - 1940), banker Provincial bank, of which Lewis became chief general manager in 1924 and deputy-chairman in 1934. He was knighted in 1921 (K.B.E. 1931), and was honorary LL.D. of Birmingham (1930) and of Wales (1935), and served on many public bodies, including the Council of the National Library of Wales. His wife (1897) was Mary Roberts, of Leeds. He died 21 February 1940. His brother, HUGH (DAVIES) LEWIS (1866 - 1937
LEWIS, DAVID JOHN (Lewis Tymbl; 1879 - 1947), Congl. minister, popular preacher and lecturer sermons. These always covered a single topic and reached a climax to end with unexpected suddenness. He received many invitations to preach from all over Wales. His most famous and best known sermons were ' Do you wish to be made whole? ' ('Roll up the mat'), ' Mary breaking the ointment box.' ('She broke the alabaster box'), ' Cast your bread on the surface of the water,' ' They departed into their
LEWIS, DAVID VIVIAN PENROSE (1st Baron Brecon), (1905 - 1976), politician Born 14 August 1905, the son of Alfred William and Elizabeth Mary Lewis of Craiglas, Talybont-on-Usk, Breconshire. He was educated at Monmouth School to the age of 16 when he left to work with his father who owned stone quarries and slag merchants. He made a considerable contribution to the development of the quarrying side of the business, which became the largest and most advanced in Wales. At
LEWIS, EMLYN EVANS (1905 - 1969), plastic surgeon organ that engendered his initial interest in plastic surgery. His kindness was legendary and his memory faultless. He was an avid collector of period clocks, and eventually became a very knowledgeable horologist. He was also a keen Freemason, being master of several lodges. He died in Cardiff Royal Infirmary, 14 May 1969, and was survived by his wife (Mary Cooper, when he married 28 October 1939) and
LEWIS, EVAN (1788? - 1864), Dissenting minister concluding paragraphs of the article Lewis and Owen families. He migrated to north Cardiganshire where he is stated to have joined the young Wesleyan Methodist church at Tre'r Ddôl. By 1819 he was living in Little Darkgate Street, Aberystwyth, having married Mary James Thomas. He was then a lay preacher. In 1820 or 1821 (the first christening recorded in his Cilgwyn register was on 9 November 1821) he
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, HOWELL ELVET (ELFED; 1860 - 1953), Independent minister, hymn-writer, poet 1948. Elfed was also fortunate in his home life. He married Mary Taylor of Buckley, in 1887. This was a happy marriage and they had seven children. However she died suddenly in 1918. He married Elisabeth Lloyd five years later but she was in poor health and died 1927. By 1930 Elfed assumed that his public life was coming to an end as his eyesight had failed completely and travelling became impossible
LEWIS, IVOR (1895 - 1982), consultant surgeon Ivor Lewis was born on 27 October 1895 at Llanddeusant, Carmarthenshire, the only child of Lewis Lewis, a farmer steeped in Welsh culture, and his wife Mary (née Davies). Educated at Llandeilo Grammar School, though his devout mother cherished the hope that her son would one day enter the ministry, Ivor Lewis aspired to be a doctor. After spending the years between 1915 and 1918 pursuing
LEWIS, JOHN (fl. 1646-1656) Glasgrug,, Puritan author son of James Lewis of Cwmowen, and Mary his wife, heiress of Glasgrug. (S. R. Meyrick, History and Antiquities … of … Cardigan, 1907 ed., 308.) As a Presbyterian, he advocated acceptance of the Covenant during the Civil War, and his report for Parliament was acknowledged in his appointment as one of the Commissioners of the Act for Propagation (1650). His pamphlet in support of Parliament had
LEWIS, JOHN (1792? - 1816), Wesleyan missionary son of Jenkin and Mary Lewis of Talsarn, Trefilan, Cardiganshire. Apparently, his parents attended Trefilan parish church, where he was christened on 23 January 1793. He was educated locally, and also at Castellhywel, under the famous David Davis. Joining the Wesleyans, he served during 1813 on the Dolgelley circuit. The following year he was accepted as an accredited missionary for the West
LEWIS, JOHN SAUNDERS (1893 - 1985), politician, critic and dramatist Saunders Lewis was born at 61 Falkland Road, Poulton-cum-Seacombe, Wallasey, Cheshire, on 15 October 1893, the second of three sons of Lodwig Lewis (1859-1933), a Calvinistic Methodist minister, and his wife Mary Margaret (née Thomas, 1862-1900). He was educated at Liscard High School for Boys from the age of six, and went on to study English at Liverpool University in 1911. His academic career
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