Dictionary of Welsh Biography

LEWIS, JOHN (fl. 1728-1755), printer and publisher Amusement in 1740-1, a weekly consisting mainly of letters from George Whitefield and his correspondents. This paper continued to run for some years under various names, such as The Weekly History, 1741-2, An Account of the Progress of the Gospel, 1743-4, and The Christian History, 1744-5. He published many of the books written by the Methodist authors of the period. He died 13 May 1755, and was buried in
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 (d. 1616?) Llynwene, Llanfihangel Nant Melan, barrister, and author of The History of Britain (Lincoln's Inn Admissions) and called to the Bar after 4 June 1570 (Black Book of Lincoln's Inn). It is more probable that he is the person who entered the Inner Temple, 20 August 1568. There is no certainty when he was called to the Bar. Peniarth MS 252, which is a collection of papers which belonged to him, the greater part being in his hand, shows that Lewis was acquainted with Dr. John David Rhys and
LEWIS, JOHN DAVID (1859 - 1914), bookseller, local historian, and founder of a printing press He was born 22 January 1859 at Llandysul, where he lived all his life, the only son of David and Hannah Lewis, Market Stores. He was educated at the following schools at Llandysul : the British school, a private school kept by Herbert Jones in a house called Penwalcau, and the grammar school kept by Gwilym Marles - ' the memory of which is dear to me,' to quote J. D. Lewis's own words. On his
LEWIS, Sir JOHN HERBERT (1858 - 1933), lawyer and politician County Council : he was one of the founders of the Intermediate school system in Wales. He entered Parliament in 1892 as a Liberal, representing the Flint boroughs until 1906, the county until 1918, and the University of Wales, a seat secured for Wales by his efforts, until his retirement in 1922. A close friend of David Lloyd George and Thomas E. Ellis, and with an intense love of Wales, he took every
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, JOHN SAUNDERS (1893 - 1985), politician, critic and dramatist petitions and public meetings proved unsuccessful, on 8 September 1936 Lewis and two fellow members of the National Party, David John Williams and Lewis Edward Valentine, went to Penrhos and set fire to workers' huts on the site of the proposed 'Bombing School'. They then went to the police station in Pwllheli to present a letter admitting their responsibility for the action. The 'fire in Llyn' or
LEWIS, JOSHUA (1816 - 1879), Independent minister the pastor Evan Jones; at Tre-lech he began preaching. He entered Carmarthen Academy in 1834, and the reports on him there were exceptionally laudatory. In 1838 he was ordained as co-pastor of Henllan Amgoed - the senior pastor, John Lloyd (1775 - 1850) had been pastor of Henllan and its numerous 'branches' since 1805; but after Lloyd's death Lewis persuaded most of these to become separate churches
LEWIS, PIERCE (1664 - 1699), cleric, and 'corrector' of the Welsh Bible of 1690 Born 11 April 1664, son of Pierce Lewis of Plas Llanfihangel Tre'r Beirdd, Anglesey, registrar of Bangor diocese, and his wife, Elizabeth Lloyd of Henblas, Llangristiolus. Entering Jesus College, Oxford, in 1681, he graduated in 1684, and seems to have remained at Oxford till 1690, to supervise the printing of the Bible, which is commonly associated with his kinsman bishop William Lloyd (1627
LEWIS, THOMAS (1759 - 1842), hymn-writer Born at Cwmcynwal, Llanwrda, Carmarthenshire. He was given a smattering of education in his own neighbourhood and was then apprenticed to a blacksmith. He opened his own smithy at Talley, where he remained for the rest of his life. Although it was the Baptists who first impressed upon him the importance of religion, his spiritual father was really William Lloyd of Caeo (1741 - 1808). He joined
LEWIS, THOMAS (fl. 18th century), hymn-writer who lived at Ynys-wen in the parish of Llanegwad, Carmarthenshire, and, at another period, at Castellhywel, Cardiganshire. A volume of long hymns composed by him and entitled Caniadau Duwiol was published in 1795. This also contains a poem of praise to the author by David Richards (Dafydd Ionawr).
LEWIS, THOMAS (1868 - 1953), Principal of Brecon Memorial College liberal modernism. He married Flora (Augusta Flora Williams), daughter of Jacob Williams, Whalley Range, Manchester, in 1898 and they had three sons and three daughters. In 1907 he succeeded David Rowlands, ' Dewi Môn ' as the principal of the Memorial College and governed there in a kindly fashion until his retirement in 1943. He was the second to become dean of the Faculty of Theology of the

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