Dictionary of Welsh Biography

LANGFORD family Allington, Richard, duke of York, 4 February 1460. He married Ellen (died 1465), daughter of John Dutton, and died 5 November 1500. It was their son, JOHN LANGFORD, that first resided at Allington as the husband of Catherine, daughter and heiress of William ap David (died 1476) ap Griffith of that place. He died 26 December 1531. Their son was the old RICHARD LANGFORD (died 1586), Literature and Writing History
LEATHART, WILLIAM DAVIES (d. after 1840), historian of the Gwyneddigion Society of London Grandson, on the maternal side, of William Davies (died 1799), 'of the Denbighshire part of Bodffari,' who had been made an honorary member of the Society in 1790. Joining the Society in 1822 he became an enthusiastic member, serving the Society as librarian in 1826 and as secretary in 1828, and much more important as its official historian. His work, The Origin and Progress of the Gwyneddigion
LEEKE, SAMUEL JAMES (1888 - 1966), Baptist minister features of his ministry was his unstinting care of his dispersed church during World War II, in spite of his own terrible suffering during the bombing raids on Swansea and the complete destruciton of his home at 12 Brooklands Terrace on Monday night, 17 February 1941. He was married at Bethesda, Swansea, on 22 September 1931 to Amy Gertrude Bryant, a member at Seion, Cwmaman, the daughter of William
LEVY, MERVYN MONTAGUE (1914 - 1996), writer and broadcaster on the visual arts . Levy attended the Swansea School of Art under its influential Principal, William Grant Murray, before progressing to the Royal College of Art in London in 1932. He shared a flat in Chelsea with Thomas and Janes, and later also with the painter William Scott. The group adopted a Bohemian life style emulating that of Augustus John, whom Levy regarded as their 'lode star'. At the Royal College he
LEWES, EVELYN ANNA (c. 1873 - 1961), author are Picturesque Aberayron (1899), and A guide to Aberaeron and Aeron valley (1922). She taught herself Welsh and was a diligent reader (1924-33) of Lewis Glyn Cothi's works for a dictionary of the Welsh language, Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru. Her translation of portions of the poems of Dafydd ap Gwilym appeared in The life and poems of Dafydd ap Gwilym (1915). Essays on ' Theatres of West Wales ' and
LEWES, WILLIAM (1652 - 1722), landowner and antiquary Lhuyd, John Davies (Rhiwlas), Browne Willis, Theophilus Evans, and Hugh Thomas. He was a competent writer in Welsh, Latin, and English. The ' Golden Grove Book ' of pedigrees was transcribed from his manuscripts. He died without issue in December 1722. His widow (died 1740) married William Lewes (died 1757) of Llanlas, Cardiganshire, and this fact has caused much confusion in the histories of the two
LEWIS family, printers and publishers DAVID LEWIS (1890 - 1943) was the eldest son of John David Lewis and Hannah, his wife; born 18 April 1890, at Market Stores, Llandysul. He was educated at the local council and county schools, and was trained as a printer, at the Gomerian Press founded by his father, under the instruction of William John Jones, foreman printer at the press. After the death of his father in 1914, the heavy
LEWIS family Van, purchased the manor of Roath-Keynsham, part of the estate of Keynsham abbey, and was sheriff of Glamorgan in 1548, 1555, and 1559. His wife was Ann, daughter of Sir William Morgan, of Pencoyd, Monmouth, a member of the Tredegar family. THOMAS LEWIS Edward Lewis's son. He was sheriff of Glamorgan in 1569. His first wife was Margaret Gamage of Coity, at the time widow of Miles Mathew of Llandaff. He added
LEWIS GLYN COTHI (fl. 1447-1486), one of the greatest of the 15th century Welsh bards He took his bardic name from that of the forest of Glyn Cothi, within the confines of which, probably, he was born, perhaps at Pwllcynbyd in the parish of Llanybydder. Early in life he became an outlaw in North Wales in company with Owen ap Gruffudd ap Nicholas. This may have been as early as 1443. The earliest certainly datable of his poems is his elegy upon the death of Sir Griffith Vychan of
LEWIS GLYN CYNON - see DAVIES, LEWIS
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, Sir ALFRED (EDWARD) (1868 - 1940), banker ., formed to deal with the situation after the Japanese earthquake of 1923. A governor of the London School of Economics, he was sheriff of Anglesey in 1934-5. He took great interest in flying, and at 50 obtained his pilot's certificate. His wife (1891), Grace Mary Edmunds, was the daughter of William Edmunds (see Edmunds, Mary Anne), by his second marriage. He died at Birkenhead 8 March 1937.

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