Dictionary of Welsh Biography

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 collection in the N.L.W. - letters which are full of political, military, and social news (and gossip) and which throw interesting light on the history of Britain and Europe; in one letter (16 September 1704) Lewis says that he hoped to try to buy 'the Estate late Sir Rice Rudds, in Carmarthenshire.' In October 1712 he was given the post of provost-marshall-general in the Barbadoes, but he appears to have
LEWIS, EVAN (1818 - 1901), dean of Bangor , and proceeded D.D. in 1826; after serving in various London parishes he kept a grammar school at Twickenham, where he died 4 January 1859 (Glan Menai, Enwogion Sir Aberteifi). Evan Lewis of Llanilar's elder son was DAVID LEWIS (1814 - 1915), cleric, afterwards Roman Catholic. He went up to Jesus College, Oxford, in March 1834, at 19, graduated in 1837, became Fellow (1839-46) of his college, was
LEWIS, Sir GEORGE CORNEWALL (1806 - 1863), statesman Born in London, 21 April 1806, the elder son of Sir Thomas Frankland Lewis. He was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, and was called to the Bar in 1831. He acted on various Government commissions of enquiry, and, in 1839, succeeded his father as Poor Law commissioner. He was largely responsible for the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1841. When the Poor Law Board was established in 1847 (a
LEWIS, Sir HENRY (1847 - 1923) North Wales, Calvinistic Methodist elder
LEWIS, HENRY (1889 - 1968), Welsh and Celtic scholar, university professor Born 21 August 1889, youngest son of William Lewis and his wife, in Ynystawe, Glamorganshire. He proceeded from Ystalyfera county school to university college Cardiff where he graduated in Welsh, and then to Jesus College, Oxford to study under Sir John Rhys. He gained the degrees of M.A. and D.Litt. (Wales). He began his career as a teacher at his old school in Ystalyfera and then at Llanelli
LEWIS, HUBERT (1825 - 1884), jurist 1862. His most notable achievement, however, was the publication in 1889 of a posthumous work, The Ancient Laws of Wales, edited by (Sir) John Edward Lloyd, then a lecturer at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth. The value of this work as a pioneer study in Welsh jurisprudence - and particularly as an attempt at a comparative study of institutions - has never been adequately appreciated
LEWIS, JOHN DAVID (1859 - 1914), bookseller, local historian, and founder of a printing press the name of William John Jones, who was to remain the head printer of Messrs. J. D. Lewis and Sons from 1892 until his death in 1955. In 1894 the business was moved from the Market Stores to the present building in the ' Gomer Press,' and from then on was confined to publishing and bookselling. The press was so named probably out of compliment to Joseph Harris (Gomer) whom J. D. Lewis admired. The
LEWIS, Sir JOHN HERBERT (1858 - 1933), lawyer and politician active part in arranging for the passing of this Act and of the Teachers' Superannuation Act, and in obtaining educational grants for ex-service men. Sir Herbert Lewis (he had been made G.B.E. in 1922) was married twice - (a) in 1886 to Adelaide (died 1895), daughter of Charles Hughes, publisher, Wrexham, and (b) in 1897 to Ruth, daughter of W. S. Caine, M.P.; by his second marriage he had a son and a
LEWIS, JOSEPH RHYS (Alaw Rhondda; 1860 - 1920), musician Born at Penderyn, Brecknock, 15 June 1860. As he was a delicate child he received very little education. He became interested in music when he was young, learned to play the piano, and, in due course, attended music classes conducted by Dr. Joseph Parry and Dr. Evans at Cardiff. He became organist of Penuel chapel, Ferndale, and, afterwards, of Bethania chapel, Maerdy. Among his hymntunes was
LEWIS, LEWIS (Lewsyn yr Heliwr, Lewsyn Shanco Lewis; 1793 - ?), haulier and revolutionary attack on the house of Joseph Coffin, the clerk to the Court of Requests, and in inciting the crowd to seize the arms of the soldiers of the 93rd (Highland) Regiment when outside the Castle Inn on the following day. After the riots he hid in the Penderyn district, but was caught on 7 June in the woods of Hendrebolon, Ystradfellte. He was condemned to death at the Cardiff assizes, by Mr. Justice
LEWIS, RICHARD (Dic Penderyn; 1807/8 - 1831), miner and revolutionary martyr 1827, the Rev. Morgan Howells. There is no certain evidence of Dic Penderyn's movements until the outbreak of the Merthyr Tydfil riots of 1831. He was then a married man living at Merthyr, and was a miner by occupation. Rioting began on 2 June with an attack on the house of Joseph Coffin, clerk to the Court of Requests, and the destruction of his furniture (see Lewis Lewis, ' Lewsyn yr Heliwr

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