Dictionary of Welsh Biography

LEVI PHILLIPS, SAMUEL - see PHILLIPS, SAMUEL LEVI
LEWIS, DAVID JOHN (1893 - 1982), architect and Lord Mayor of Liverpool David John Lewis was born on 29 April 1893 in Penparcau, at that time a small village near Aberystwyth. His mother Elizabeth (Lisi or Lizzie) Lewis (née Phillips) was a member of a family steeped in Welsh culture in the village, and his father, John Lewis, came originally from Llanwrin, Montgomeryshire. After working in the south Wales valleys, he had set up a grocery and insurance business in
LEWIS, EVAN (1818 - 1901), dean of Bangor choral singing; so too at Dolgelley he introduced Gregorian chanting. While still a curate, he took part in the vigorous controversy known as the ' Bangor debate,' speaking and writing in defence of ' Catholic ' views, against Nonconformists like John Phillips (1810 - 1867) and William Davies (1820 - 1875) - one of the products of this debate was Lewis's book Yr Olyniaeth Apostolaidd, 1851. He read a
LEWIS, Sir WILLIAM THOMAS (first BARON MERTHYR of SENGHENYDD), (1837 - 1914), coal magnate and Monmouthshire Coalowners' Association,' in reply to the growth of trade unionism in the area and the frequent strikes. He himself claimed to have originated the famous 'sliding scale' method of fixing wages, but this claim has been disputed on behalf of H. Hussey Vivian (lord Swansea) and others - see Elizabeth Phillips, Pioneers of the Welsh Coalfield, 256-61. Granted his principles, Lewis may
LLOYD, DAVID GEORGE (1912 - 1969), singer meeting in Flintshire College of Technology, 25 February 1961, and at Flint national eisteddfod, 1969, a memorial fund was established bearing his name 'to offer practical assistance to some of our promising young people in the world of music. He died unmarried in a hospital in Rhyl, 27 March 1969, and was buried in Picton cemetery, near Gwesbyr.
LLOYD, JOHN AMBROSE (1815 - 1874), musician -tune - he was then 16; it appeared in Y Gwladgarwr, 1835, under the name of ' Wyddgrug.' Isaac Lloyd was appointed editor of the Blackburn Standard and after he had left Liverpool the younger brother, John, became assistant master in a private school and afterwards joined the staff of the Picton school; in 1838 he began to teach in the Liverpool Mechanics' Institute. In 1849 he gave up teaching on
LLOYD, ROBERT (Llwyd o'r Bryn; 1888 - 1961), eisteddfodwr, entertainer and farmer the first in Wales to stimulate interest in the experimental immunisation of cattle against tuberculosis (see Richard Phillips, Pob un a'i gwys (1970), 86). Throughout most of his life he acted as compère and adjudicator at countless eisteddfodau in north and mid- Wales; he was one of the promoters of the first national eisteddfod held by Urdd Gobaith Cymru at Corwen in 1929. Between 1938 and 1950
LLOYD, VAUGHAN (1736 - 1817), general Born at Ffos-y-bleiddiaid (near Ystrad Meurig, Cardiganshire), 17 January 1736, youngest son of John Lloyd and his wife Mary (Phillips, of Pembrokeshire) - on the family (which afterwards removed to Mabws in Llanrhystud), see Some family records … of the Lloyds, by Lloyd-Theakston and Davies (indexed). Lloyd joined the artillery; he was at Minden, 1759, one of the garrison of Gibraltar in 1779-80
LLOYD-JONES, DAVID MARTYN (1899 - 1981), minister and theologian change people's lives by spiritual regeneration. Many people were surprised by Martyn Lloyd-Jones's decision to leave the medical world in 1926. He was sponsored by the London Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church of Wales to be a candidate for the ministry in September 1926. On 8 January 1927 he married Dr Bethan Phillips (1898-1991), granddaughter of the Rev. Evan Phillips (1829-1912), Newcastle
LORT family Stackpole, (who lived at Prickaston or Prickeston, near Castlemartin church - see Fenton, Pembrokeshire, 1903 ed., 223; today only a farmhouse), and SAMPSON, of East Moor, near Manorbier, who married a daughter of Sir John Philipps of Picton. All three 'trimmed' dexterously during the Civil Wars. In 1642 Roger was on the Parliament's Militia Commission for Pembrokeshire, but in the same year he and Sampson were
MATHIAS, WILLIAM JAMES (1934 - 1992), composer and teacher William Mathias was born on 1 November 1934 in Whitland. His father, James Hughes Mathias (1893-1969), was a history teacher at Whitland Grammar School and his mother Marian (née Evans, 1896-1980) was an organist and pianist. At the age of six he began to take piano lessons with David Lloyd Phillips of Llanfyrnach, and it was to him that Mathias dedicated his sonata for piano, op.23. In 1952 he
MATTHEWS, DANIEL HUGH (1936 - 2020), Baptist minister and college principal Hugh Matthews was born on 25 October 1936 at 6 Heol Bryn-gelli, Treboeth, Swansea, the second of two sons of Daniel Eustis Matthews (d. 1975), coal miner and road worker, and his wife Annie Ada (née Phillips, d. 1994). His elder brother, Thomas Kenneth, was born in 1930. The family church was Caersalem Newydd, whose minister, the Revd W. H. Rowlands, had a formative influence on Hugh as a young

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