Dictionary of Welsh Biography

LEWIS, DAVID JOHN (Lewis Tymbl; 1879 - 1947), Congl. minister, popular preacher and lecturer , 1884; T.E. Nicholas was one of his contemporaries there. The headmaster at the time was John Davies from Felin-foel, a strict disciplinarian, who had succeeded Robert Bryan in 1883. According to that article, Bryan had been headmaster at Whitland but that was merely the postal address of the school at Hermon. The Sunday school at Brynmyrnach was more important to him in his development as a preacher
LEWIS, DAVID WILLIAM (1845 - 1920), musician Born 15 April 1845, at Brynaman, Carmarthenshire. He started work in a coalmine when he was only 9 years old. His first knowledge of music was derived from books published by Mills and Eleazar Roberts. In 1870 he went to Bristol to be examined in the tonic sol-fa notation, gained all the certificates that were possible, and qualified as F.T.S.C. - the first in Wales to gain that distinction. He
LEWIS, DAVID WYRE (1872 - 1966), minister and administrator (B) the New Wales Union (Undeb Cymru Fydd) he was from the beginning a member of the Council and several committees of the new body and later chairman and president. The University of Wales conferred on him an hon. D.D. in 1961, and many considered him to be the most important Baptist of the 20 c. in Wales. He married (1), 13 April 1904, Elizabeth Ellen Roberts (1896 - 1941), Holyhead; (2) 20 May 1946
LEWIS, ELLIS (fl. 1640-1661), translator . His wife was Ellen, daughter of Robert Anwyl, Parc, Llanfrothen, by Catrin, daughter of Sir John Owen, Clenennau, Caernarfonshire. He is known as the translator of Ystyriaethau Drexelius ar Dragwyddoldeb Gwedi eu cyfieithu yn gyntafyn Saeson-aeg gan Dr. R. Winterton, ac yr awrhon yn Gymraeg gan Ellis Lewis o'r Llwyn-gwernyn Sir Feirion, Wr-bonheddig (Oxford, 1661).
LEWIS, ERASMUS (1670 - 1754), writer of 'news-letters' and holder of posts under the Government lived at various times in Europe, where he held Government posts, e.g. in Paris (1700 or 1701). In June 1702 he was at Carmarthen, possibly as schoolmaster. He became secretary to Robert Harley (afterwards earl of Oxford) in 1704, whilst in 1708 he was a British Government secretary in Brussels; later he was under-secretary of State under the earl of Dartmouth, etc. From 1710 Dean Swift in his Journal
LEWIS, GEORGE (c. 1640? - 1709?), cleric and author September 1709. A translation of An earnest exhortation to Householders, by Robert Nelson, attributed to him by Moses Williams, was published in London in 1704.
LEWIS, GEORGE (1763 - 1822), theologian and Independent minister Born in 1763 at Coed near Tre-lech, Carmarthenshire. He became a member of Graig chapel, Tre-lech. For a time he attended the school kept by John Griffiths of Glandŵr (1731 - 1811), and, later, that kept by David Davis of Castellhywel. When he was 18 years of age he was admitted to Carmarthen Academy, the senior tutor of which at that time was Robert Gentleman. After spending three years at the
LEWIS, HYWEL DAVID (1910 - 1992), university professor and philosopher his ashes were laid in the family grave on the Great Orme in Llandudno. Two memorial services were held; one at Twrgwyn Chapel in Bangor when tributes were paid by the Rev. Principal Elfed ap Nefydd Roberts, Mr. Moses J. Jones and Dr. Meredydd Evans. The second service was held at the chapel of King's College in London with Professor Stewart R. Sutherland giving the tribute. A Festschrift Religion
LEWIS, Sir JOHN HERBERT (1858 - 1933), lawyer and politician Born 27 December 1858 at Mostyn Quay, Flintshire, only son of Enoch Lewis (great-nephew of Thomas Jones (1756 - 1820) of Denbigh) and of Catherine Roberts, Plas Llangwyfan, Denbighshire. He was educated at Denbigh, Montreal (McGill University), and Exeter College Oxford [ B.A. 1879, M.A. 1884 ], and travelled widely. A lawyer by profession, he became in 1889 first chairman of the Flintshire
LEWIS, OWEN (1533 - 1594), bishop of Cassano, church. According to some authorities it was Borromeo himself who invited him to take up this post; but the papers left by Father Robert Parsons suggest that the Pope arranged the appointment in order to get Owen Lewis away from Rome and so ensure peace and quiet in the English College. Be that as it may, he arrived at Milan, 16 June 1580, where he spent the next four years doing important work for
LEWIS, ROBERT EDWARD (fl. early 18th century), poet
LEWIS, TIMOTHY RICHARDS (1841 - 1886), surgeon, pathologist, and pioneer in tropical medicine international conferences on medical and sanitary problems. In 1884-5 he was again called to resume his researches into the causes of cholera, and to examine the theory of Robert Koch, who had discovered the ' commabacillus.' He was secretary to the committee of scientists appointed to investigate the theory. The weight of evidence at the time was found to be against the reception of Koch's theory, but Lewis

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