Dictionary of Welsh Biography

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LEWIS, DAVID WYRE (1872 - 1966), minister and administrator (B) organizer in Wales for the Reorganizing Fund (Trysorfa Ad-drefniad; 1944). He was a prolific writer and published a short memoir in J.T. Rees (ed.), Detholiad o donau, anthemau a rhanganau Dafydd Lewis, Llanrhystud (1930), and Yr eglwysi a'r Undeb. Y weinidogaeth a'i pherigl heddiw (1939). He was at the forefront in the revival of Seren Gomer in 1909, was editor of the periodical, 1910-16, laying special
LEWIS, JOHN (GOMER) (1844? - 1914), Baptist minister and orator . New Salem was built, and by 1878 had admitted over 1,100 members. In March 1878 he went to Belle Vue, Swansea, and after the opening of Capel Gomer in March 1891 added the name 'Gomer' to his own. He was regarded by the poor as a great philanthropist, was celebrated as a preacher, and had no rival as a lecturer. In 1898 he was chairman of the Union of Welsh Baptists, the subject of his address on
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, JOHN HUW (1931 - 2008), printer and publisher much of his time working on maps. Having completed his apprenticeship in the printing industry in London he returned to Llandysul to join the family business, Gwasg Gomer, also known as Gomer Press. The press - founded by his grandfather John David Lewis, in Market Stores, Llandysul, in 1892 - was now being run by J. D. Lewis's two sons: Rhys Lewis (Huw Lewis's father) and Edward Lewis. John Lewis
LLEWELLYN, THOMAS (1720? - 1783), Baptist minister and tutor University of Aberdeen. He is best remembered for his efforts to secure for his fellow-countrymen a constant supply and distribution of Welsh Bibles. He published Historical Account of the British or Welsh Versions and Editions of the Bible, 1768, translated into Welsh in Seren Gomer, 1815, and Historical and Critical Remarks on the British Tongue, 1769 (both reprinted together in 1793 under the title of
LLOYD, GRIFFITH RICHARD MAETHLU (1902 - 1995), college principal and minsister (B) and history, and during ecumenical discussions in the 1960s he argued strongly in favour preserving Baptist identity and order. His publications are few - mostly addresses and the occasional essay in Seren Gomer - but all testify to a penetrating, analytical mind. He outlived his wife by two years and died on 6 March, 1995, and he was buried in the graveyard of Pencarneddi chapel in Anglesey.
LLOYD, JOHN (Einion Môn; 1792 - 1834), schoolmaster and poet that Society; and when clerics in Wales attacked the society, Lloyd, in 1829, composed a reply to these ' brainless chatterers ' as he called them. The reports of Cymreigyddion meetings, in Seren Gomer, show that he also lectured to the society. But in 1832 we find him, in company with Griffith Davies, F.R.S., protesting vigorously against the increasingly Radical tone of the society - see the debate
LLWYD, STEPHEN (1794 - 1854), musician became precentor of Carmel Baptist chapel; he also conducted music classes in the district. His hymn-tune 'Caerllyngoed,' first appeared in Seren Gomer, June 1822; other hymn-tunes composed by him ('Abergwaun,' 'Taf,' and 'Rhondda') were published in Seren Gomer whilst a 'Carol Nadolig,' arranged by D. Emlyn Evans, appeared in Cronicl y Cerddor, December 1882. He died in April 1854, at the age of 60
MILLS, RICHARD (Rhydderch Hael; 1809 - 1844), musician Born in March 1809 at Tynewydd, Llanidloes, son of the second marriage of Henry Mills. Leaving school at 11, he was apprenticed to weaving. When only 15 he became known as a musician, for his hymn-tune ' Maes-y-llan ' was printed in Seren Gomer; and he was an active member of Bethel (Llanidloes) Musical Society. In 1835 Y Gwladgarwr printed a lecture of his on music. He took prizes for hymn-tunes
MORGAN, DAVID EIRWYN (1918 - 1982), college principal and minister (B) , 1960-72. One striking feature was 'The Editor's Diary', which, under different titles continued to be published in Seren Cymru until the end of 1976. Eirwyn Morgan had also been a regular contributor to Seren Gomer. As a young minister he had been one of those who had been invited to edit the publication until Lewis Valentine could take up the appointment in 1951 and it was he who succeeded Valentine
MORGAN, JOHN RHYS (Lleurwg; 1822 - 1900), Baptist minister, lecturer, poet, and littérateur eloquent speaker on the Liberal platform, but is probably best remembered for his popular lectures, of which at least thirty subjects have been recorded. In addition, he was an eisteddfod adjudicator, co-editor of Y Medelwr Ieuanc, which was first published in 1871, and editor of the poetry section of Seren Cymru from 1860 to 1877, and Seren Gomer in the early 1860's, but owing to his multiplicity of

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