Dictionary of Welsh Biography

LEWIS, JENKIN (1760 - 1831), Independent minister and tutor he finished his course there, he was acting as assistant to the tutor, Benjamin Davies. He removed, along with the Academy, to Oswestry, as assistant to Edward Williams (1750 - 1813), but in November 1784, accepted a pastorate at Wrexham. When Edward Williams (in 1791) went from Oswestry, Lewis was urged to take his place, and as he declined to leave Wrexham, the Academy was removed (1792) from
LEWIS, JOHN (fl. 1646-1656) Glasgrug,, Puritan author son of James Lewis of Cwmowen, and Mary his wife, heiress of Glasgrug. (S. R. Meyrick, History and Antiquities … of … Cardigan, 1907 ed., 308.) As a Presbyterian, he advocated acceptance of the Covenant during the Civil War, and his report for Parliament was acknowledged in his appointment as one of the Commissioners of the Act for Propagation (1650). His pamphlet in support of Parliament had
LEWIS, JOHN (1792? - 1816), Wesleyan missionary son of Jenkin and Mary Lewis of Talsarn, Trefilan, Cardiganshire. Apparently, his parents attended Trefilan parish church, where he was christened on 23 January 1793. He was educated locally, and also at Castellhywel, under the famous David Davis. Joining the Wesleyans, he served during 1813 on the Dolgelley circuit. The following year he was accepted as an accredited missionary for the West
LEWIS, JOHN (Eos Glyn Wyre; 1836 - 1892), poet and musician Born 6 April 1836, the son of Lewis and Margaret Lewis, Hen Dŷ Mawr, Llanrhystud, Cardiganshire. The father, who was a good musician, was by trade a tailor and brought up his sons, John Lewis and David Lewis (1828 - 1908), to the same trade; a third son, Evan Lewis, was a shoemaker. John Lewis married Jane Davies, Felinganol, and on marriage went to reside at his wife's home; seven children were
LEWIS, JOHN DANIEL VERNON (1879 - 1970), scholar, Independent minister, author, tutor and theological college principal . Witton Davies. Two important awards decided his future course of study; the Pusey and Ellerton Scholarship to Mansfield College, Oxford, followed by the Proctor Travelling Scholarship which gave him the opportunity of studying in Leipzig with Rudolf Kittel and other scholars. As well as completing the requirements of the Oxford M.A. he was nominated by Prof. D.S. Margoliouth, Prof. of Arabic, to be a
LEWIS, JOHN DAVID (1859 - 1914), bookseller, local historian, and founder of a printing press first books to be published there were Hanes Plwyf Llandyssul (W. J. Davies, 1896), Hanes Plwyfi Llangeler a Phenboyr (Daniel E. Jones, 1899), and Hanes Plwyf Llangunllo (E. Cunllo Davies, 1905). Here, too, were published the monthly Cwrs y Byd (ed. E. Pan Jones), and from 1900 on Yr Ymofyn(n)ydd, the Unitarian monthly. In 1911 Lewis won a prize at the national eisteddfod held at Carmarthen for a
LEWIS, JOHN HUW (1931 - 2008), printer and publisher member of the choir originally known as Gleisiaid Teifi, conducted by Catherine Watkin and then Elwyn Davies. He was a founder member of the local dining club and he served on more than one occasion as president of Cymrodorion Llandysul. He worked tirelessly to establish a Welsh-language nursery school in Llandysul and also the bilingual secondary school, Ysgol Dyffryn Teifi, on whose governing body he
LEWIS, JOHN SAUNDERS (1893 - 1985), politician, critic and dramatist Saunders Lewis was born at 61 Falkland Road, Poulton-cum-Seacombe, Wallasey, Cheshire, on 15 October 1893, the second of three sons of Lodwig Lewis (1859-1933), a Calvinistic Methodist minister, and his wife Mary Margaret (née Thomas, 1862-1900). He was educated at Liscard High School for Boys from the age of six, and went on to study English at Liverpool University in 1911. His academic career
LEWIS, MARY ANNE - see LEWIS
LEWIS, OWEN (1533 - 1594), bishop of Cassano, , greatly respected in the Papal court. In 1586 we hear of him working exceedingly hard in the interests of Mary, queen of Scots, and trying to persuade the Pope to support her claims to the English throne. He loathed the Spaniards and the supporters of the king of Spain, including more particularly the Jesuits; Phillip II knew this perfectly well and it was certainly he who insisted that Owen Lewis
LEWIS, Lady RUTH (1871 - 1946), a pioneering collector of Welsh folk-songs, and advocate of educational, religious, temperance and philanthropic bodies borough and she became the first woman to sit on the Flintshire Commission of Peace; she appeared often on the Caerwys bench. Because of her great interest in music, she was among the founding members of the Welsh Folk Song Society in 1906. At the beginning of the twentieth century, Ruth Lewis, Dr. Mary Davies and Grace Gwyneddon Davies, with the use of a phonograph, preserved many folk songs which were
LEWIS, TIMOTHY (1877 - 1958), Welsh and Celtic scholar Born 17 February 1877, in a house called Noble Court near Nebo chapel in the village of Efail-wen, Cilymaenllwyd parish, on the border between Pembrokeshire and Carmarthenshire. He was the eldest son and third of seven children of Job and Mary Lewis. The father worked locally in Llwyn'rebol quarry but after the quarry owners failed to pay the workers for six weeks' work in 1880 he decided to go

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