Dictionary of Welsh Biography

LEWIS, HYWEL DAVID (1910 - 1992), university professor and philosopher his ashes were laid in the family grave on the Great Orme in Llandudno. Two memorial services were held; one at Twrgwyn Chapel in Bangor when tributes were paid by the Rev. Principal Elfed ap Nefydd Roberts, Mr. Moses J. Jones and Dr. Meredydd Evans. The second service was held at the chapel of King's College in London with Professor Stewart R. Sutherland giving the tribute. A Festschrift Religion
LEWIS, IVOR (1895 - 1982), consultant surgeon should be brought up in a totally Welsh environment. Therefore, at the height of his surgical career, in 1951, the family moved to north Wales on his appointment as consultant surgeon at the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Rhyl, and at two nearby chest hospitals at Abergele and Llangwyfan. Though he retired from his post at Rhyl in 1960 he continued to work at Abergele and Llangwyfan for a further ten
LEWIS, JAMES (1674 - 1747), Independent minister Born at Dinas Cerdin, in the parish of Llandysul, Cardiganshire, a descendant of the old Lewis family of that place. His tombstone in Llanllawddog churchyard says that he was born of godly and charitable parents. In 1706 he was ordained minister of Pencadair church of which he was probably already a member, and Pantycreuddin (afterwards Horeb) chapel was also entrusted to his care. He succeeded
LEWIS, JANET ELLEN (1900 - 1979), novelist, poet and journalist on the editorial staff of the Daily News and the Sunday Times in the 1930s. In 1937 she married Graeme Hendrey; they had one daughter, Katrina, and the family moved to live in rural Surrey. She and her husband became friends with a number of literary figures, including Anglo-Welsh writers such as Ernest Rhys, Hilda Vaughan, and Charles Morgan. Later, in 1967, Lewis published an edited volume of the
LEWIS, JOHN (d. 1616?) Llynwene, Llanfihangel Nant Melan, barrister, and author of The History of Britain . The following extract (quoted by Edward Owen in his Catalogue, named below) from the copy (in B.M. Harl. MS. 6840) of the will (dated 14 September 1720) of Hugh Thomas is relevant: 'Whereas I have receiv'd several pounds towards printing my book now in ye press and begun by Mr. John Lewis of Llanwenny …' Like other members of his family, he was a Catholic recusant, and he was excommunicated by the
LEWIS, JOHN DAVID (1859 - 1914), bookseller, local historian, and founder of a printing press father's side he was descended from a highly respected family in the Cerdin valley, the famous preacher Christmas Evans being of the same stock, while on his mother's side he was descended from a family of well-to-do farmers in the parish of Cilrhedyn. From his early days he was interested in the literature, history, and folk-lore of his neighbourhood, and made a collection of books, pamphlets, and
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
LEWIS, MOSES (fl. 1748-1800), Methodist exhorter, afterwards an Antinomian son of Arthur Lewis of Fron, Brymbo, Denbighshire. He was one of the founders of the church in Adwy'r Clawdd and it was to his house that Peter Williams fled after his persecution in 1748. He began to exhort c. 1750. In 1751 he adhered to the party of Howel Harris, but soon repudiated him and refused to join his 'Family' at Trevecka. He became an Antinomian and established a small following in
LEWIS, OWEN (1533 - 1594), bishop of Cassano, Borromeo. And in the archbishop's palace he enjoyed the company of his fellow-countryman, Gruffydd Robert, who was also one of Borromeo's 'family,' and acted as one of his confessors. Gruffydd Robert appears to have assisted him from time to time in his work as vicar general. In November 1584 Borromeo died, and two months afterwards Owen Lewis was back in Rome, where he spent the rest of his life
LEWIS, Lady RUTH (1871 - 1946), a pioneering collector of Welsh folk-songs, and advocate of educational, religious, temperance and philanthropic bodies Born 29 November 1871, at 16 Alexandra Drive, Liverpool, the third child of William Sproston Caine (DNB, 1901-50), and his wife Alice, the daughter of Hugh Stowell Brown, minister at the Myrtle Street Baptist church, Liverpool. When her father was elected M.P. for Scarborough, the family moved to London where she studied at Clapham Secondary School for Girls before entering Newnham College
LEWIS, THOMAS (1868 - 1953), Principal of Brecon Memorial College Born 14 December 1868 at Pant-y-waun, Blaen-y-coed, Carmarthenshire, the fifth child of James and Anna Lewis, one of twelve children (although two died when young), including Howell ('Elfed'), the eldest. There were talented and gifted musicians on the mother's side of the family and this influenced Howell, the hymn-writer, and Thomas who had a good baritone voice and who, for a period, used to
LEWIS, THOMAS (1823 - 1900), Baptist minister, and historical writer Born 3 August 1823 in the parish of Llandeilo'r-fan, Brecknock. In 1829 the family moved to Cwmdŵr where he was baptised in 1837. He worked in the woollen mills at Cwmdŵr and Llanwrtyd and began to preach in 1840 at Pantycelyn. He was trained for the ministry at Horeb (Cwmdŵr), at the school kept by Brutus, near Pentre-bach, at D. Williams's (Independent) school at Tredwstan, and at an academy at

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