Dictionary of Welsh Biography

KOTSCHNIG, ELINED PRYS (1895 - 1983), psychoanalyst and pacifist Union from the women of Wales to their counterparts in the United States, although her name does not appear in the minutes of the meetings held as preparations intensified during 1923. On 2 February 1924, aged twenty-nine, Elined ('one of the non-official deputation') joined leader Mrs Peter Hughes Griffiths or Annie Jane Hughes Griffiths (1873-1942) on board the RMS Cedric sailing from Liverpool to
LAKE, MORGAN ISLWYN (1925 - 2018), minister and pacifist - where his father was headteacher - Islwyn attended Fishguard County School (1935-43) where he came under the influence of D. J. Williams, who was his sixth form Welsh teacher, and D. J. Bowen (1925-2017) was amongst his friends. The Rev. Irfon Samuel, the family's minister, together with D. J. Williams were early influences on him as a pacifist and a life-long member of Plaid Cymru. He registered as 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
LEE, ROWLAND (d. 1543), bishop of Coventry and Lichfield (which included at that time what later became the diocese of Chester) (1534-1543), and president of the Council in Wales and the Marches for the same period , 1904; R. Flenley, A Calendar of the Register of the Queen's Majesty's Council in the Dominion and Principality of Wales and the Marches, 1918, and David Williams, A History of Modern Wales, 1950. Lee had had much experience of public affairs in England for some years before he was appointed to the two offices named above in 1534. Under Wolsey, he had been concerned in the closing of some of the
LEEKE, SAMUEL JAMES (1888 - 1966), Baptist minister Born 28 March 1888 at Tal-y-bont, Cardiganshire, son of Samuel Leeke (died 14 February 1943, aged 81) and Anne Leeke (née Williams, died 31 December 1937 aged 74). His parents married in Bristol on 20 November 1884. His father was a carpenter by profession, a trade which he practised at sea, having sailed many times 'round the Horn '. The son's career started in the service of the Post Office
LEVI, THOMAS (1825 - 1916), Calvinistic Methodist minister, editor of Trysorfa y Plant, and author South Wales Association in 1887. He played a prominent part in the setting up of monuments to Daniel Rowland, Thomas Charles, Williams of Pantycelyn, and bishop Morgan. He continued to preach until 1910 and to edit Trysorfa y Plant until 1911. He was nearly 91 when he died 16 June 1916. A list of his original works and of his translations of hymns was prepared at the request of the N.L.W., and this
LEWES, ERASMUS (1663? - 1745), cleric , deserves to be remembered since it was 'at the request of the Reverend Captain Lewes of Gernos ' that Moses Williams undertook the task of translating Vickers's Companion to the Altar into Welsh. It was published in London in 1715 under the title Cydymmaith i'r Allor, Yn dangos, Anian ac Angenrheidrwydd Ymbaratoad Sacrafennaidd, Modd y derbynniom y Cymmun Bendigedig yn Deilwng.
LEWES, Sir WATKIN (1740 - 1821), lord mayor of London second son of Watkin Lewes, Penybenglog, Melinau, and Ann Williams of Ambleston, Pembrokeshire. His father was rector of Melinau (1735-59) and of Newport, Pembrokeshire (1759-70). The son was educated at Shrewsbury school and Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he graduated in 1763. He entered the Middle Temple [ 1760 ], and was called to the (Chancery) Bar in 1766. He married Rebecca Eleanora
LEWIS family, printers and publishers translated The Poacher (J.O. Francis) and Jane Wogan (Florence Howell) into Welsh. She died 16 March 1960 and was buried in Pen-y-bont Baptist church cemetery.
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
LEWIS LLOYD, EMMELINE (1827 - 1913), one of the first women to climb in the Alps (1835 - 1916), it is doubtful whether any of them went in for climbing before her. Lucy Walker always climbed with her father and her brother but Emmeline's usual companion was another woman, Isabella Straton. She also climbed with her younger sister, Bessie, who married William Williams, the vicar of Llandyfaelog. Her usual guide, Jean Charlet of Argentière, spent a year as a groom at Nantgwyllt
LEWIS, BENJAMIN WALDO (1877 - 1953), Baptist minister Born 7 September 1877 at Holyhead, Anglesey, the son of John (according to family tradition, but David according to the biographies) Lewis, (born 29 August 1829) from Bridell, and Anne Lewis (née Williams, in February 1848 or 1849) from Fishguard. They married at Newport, Monmouth on 31 January 1871. His father was, according to tradition, of the lineage of a brother of Titus Lewis while his wife

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