Dictionary of Welsh Biography

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
LEWIS, MARY ANNE - see LEWIS
LEWIS, OWEN (1533 - 1594), bishop of Cassano, , greatly respected in the Papal court. In 1586 we hear of him working exceedingly hard in the interests of Mary, queen of Scots, and trying to persuade the Pope to support her claims to the English throne. He loathed the Spaniards and the supporters of the king of Spain, including more particularly the Jesuits; Phillip II knew this perfectly well and it was certainly he who insisted that Owen Lewis
LEWIS, Lady RUTH (1871 - 1946), a pioneering collector of Welsh folk-songs, and advocate of educational, religious, temperance and philanthropic bodies borough and she became the first woman to sit on the Flintshire Commission of Peace; she appeared often on the Caerwys bench. Because of her great interest in music, she was among the founding members of the Welsh Folk Song Society in 1906. At the beginning of the twentieth century, Ruth Lewis, Dr. Mary Davies and Grace Gwyneddon Davies, with the use of a phonograph, preserved many folk songs which were
LEWIS, TIMOTHY (1877 - 1958), Welsh and Celtic scholar Born 17 February 1877, in a house called Noble Court near Nebo chapel in the village of Efail-wen, Cilymaenllwyd parish, on the border between Pembrokeshire and Carmarthenshire. He was the eldest son and third of seven children of Job and Mary Lewis. The father worked locally in Llwyn'rebol quarry but after the quarry owners failed to pay the workers for six weeks' work in 1880 he decided to go
LEWIS, WILLIAM (1814 - 1891), Calvinistic Methodist missionary and linguist Born at Manchester, of Welsh parents, he set his mind on serving the China Mission under the London Missionary Society. In 1839 he entered the Bala C.M. College. In 1842 was ordained for the newly opened mission field of the Welsh Calvinistic Methodists in India. M. to Mary Roberts, of Towyn, Meironnydd, he arrived on the Khasia Hills in January 1843; he baptised his first converts in 1846. He
LEWIS, Sir WILLIAM THOMAS (first BARON MERTHYR of SENGHENYDD), (1837 - 1914), coal magnate Born 5 August 1837, son of Thomas William Lewis, engineer to the Plymouth iron-works (Merthyr Tydfil), was at school under Taliesin Williams, but at 13 was articled to his father. In 1855 he became assistant-engineer in the service of the Bute estate, and in 1864 mineral agent to that estate. In the same year he married Anne, daughter of WILLIAM REES, owner of Llety-Shenkin colliery, Aberdare
LINDEN, DIEDERICH WESSEL (d. 1769), medical doctor and mineralogist Diederich Wessel Linden was most likely born during the early eighteenth century in the small village of Hemmerde, Westphalia, Germany, the son of Thomas Linden, and his wife Mary. The circumstances of his upbringing remain obscure. However, it is likely he received some schooling that acquainted him with the foundations of mining and minerology. While identifying later in life as medical doctor
LIVSEY, GEORGE FREDERICK (1834 - 1923), bandmaster (born 1834) died in 1873. The couple had five children, James (born 1858), George (born 1860), Mary (born 1864), Sarah (born 1865) and Ralph (born 1866). The latter became a horn player with the Coldstream Guards and later at the Royal Italian Opera, Covent Garden. The Cyfarthfa band as a truly great ensemble did not outlive Crawshay's control of the Cyfarthfa ironworks, and early in the twentieth
LLEWELLYN, DAVID TREHARNE (1916 - 1992), Conservative politician David Llewellyn was born at Aberdare on 17 January 1916, the son of Sir David Richard Llewellyn, 1st Bart., a coalowner and industrialist, and Magdalene Anne (she died in 1966), the daughter of the Reverend Dr Henry Harries, Baptist minister of Treherbert. There were four brothers and four sisters. His brother was Sir Harry Llewellyn, the famous horseman, captain of the British Olympic
LLEWELLYN, THOMAS (1720? - 1783), Baptist minister and tutor , and several nephews and nieces. There is now new information on the parentage and family of Dr Thomas Llewellyn. It appears from the will of Lewelin Jenkin of Gelligaer parish (buried 30 December 1729) that Thomas Llewelyn and Mary were his children by his second wife Anne Lewis James. She died while Thomas was under 10 years of age as a guardian, James Lewis, had been appointed. Lewelin's first

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