Dictionary of Welsh Biography

KENYON, FANNY MARY KATHERINE - see BULKELEY-OWEN, FANNY MARY KATHERINE
KNIBB, MARY (c.1798 - 1866), abolitionist and social reformer Mary Knibb was born around the year 1798 in the parish of Pontypool, Monmouthshire. Her parents, whose surname was Watkins, died when she was young and little is known of her early life though it is safe to assume that she stayed in Wales as it was reported that Mary was a Welsh speaker. Mary moved to Bristol before March 1823, where she became a member of Broadmead Baptist church. She taught in
KNIGHT, WILLIAM BRUCE (1785 - 1845), Welsh scholar, ecclesiastic, and administrator was presented to the living of Llantrithyd, Glamorganshire, by Sir John Aubrey, and in 1817, by the trustees of C. R. M. Talbot, to the living of Margam and the consolidated rectory of Llandough-juxta-Cowbridge and S. Mary-church. With the help of a curate he served these parishes from 1817 to 1843, living in the old vicarage, Tynycaeau. He married Maria Elinor Traherne of S. Hilary. In 1843, he
KOTSCHNIG, ELINED PRYS (1895 - 1983), psychoanalyst and pacifist New York. A diary was kept of the movements of the delegation (which also included Mary Ellis and Gladys Thomas) recording the presentation of the petition at the White House to President Calvin Coolidge, together with the journey to the West Coast. By the end of March 1924, the petitioners were back in Britain, and Elined was again promoting the cause of the League of Nations. Only through the
LAKE, MORGAN ISLWYN (1925 - 2018), minister and pacifist and being taught by people like Professor Gwilym Bowyer. When Islwyn died in 2018 he was the last of that generation of ministers of the Congregationalist denomination whose vision of pacificsm, reconciliation and unity defined their ministry. At university (where he graduated BA and BD 1946-53) Islwyn met Gwyneth Mary Morris (1926-2020); they were married in 1953 and had five children, Cynfael
LANGFORD family Allington, unpleasantness between them at first, Richard Davies (1635 - 1708), the Quaker, has a good word to say about his friendly, tolerant, and neighbourly attitude towards him and his friends in the time of the great persecution (An Account of the Convincement … 3rd ed., 111). Allington passed to the second son of John Langford, also named JOHN. He was sheriff of Denbigh, 1677, and his wife, Mary, daughter of
LATHROP, RICHARD (d. 1764), bookseller and printer wife, whom he married on 14 February 1737/8, was Mary Hesketh. Lathrop was buried on 1 November 1764.
LAWS, EDWARD (1837 - 1913), historian was the eldest son of admiral John Milligen Laws (born 1799) of Marchfield House, Binfield, Berks., and Mary (1815 - 1899), daughter of Charles Delamotte Mathias (1777 - 1851), of Lamphey Court and Llangwaran, Pembrokeshire. His parents were married on 25 June 1836 and he was born on 17 April 1837 and christened in Lamphey church on 4 July. He was educated at Rugby and Wadham College, Oxford
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
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 Llwyn-du, Llangelynnin Humphrey II (above); when Richard Davies the Quaker (1635 - 1708), visited Tyddyn-y-garreg, Owen Lewis had just got back from prison, and in the ensuing years we have frequent mention of distraint upon him for tithe. He too, like his friend, gave the Quakers a burial ground on his land; and the Friends of the district for a very long time held divine services in Tyddyn-y-garreg 'parlour.' LEWIS OWEN II
LEWIS family Van, to the Van and built the Lewis house in S. Mary Street, Cardiff, which was finally demolished about 1865. He died at Cardiff 2 November 1594. The 'inquisitiones' taken on his death are of considerable local interest. Sir EDWARD LEWIS (1560 - 1628) Eldest son of Thomas Lewis, the man who gave the living of Llanfaches to William Wroth, was knighted in 1603, and was sheriff of Glamorgan in 1601 and

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