Dictionary of Welsh Biography

LLYWELYN GOCH Y DANT (fl. 1470-1471), bard of Pembroke, at Chepstow, in 1471 - this elegy contains a violent attack upon Jasper Tudor. He also wrote an awdl, in unusual metres, upon the abbey of Neath. And that is all that survives of his compositions. Ieuan Du'r Bilwg describes him in a cywydd as a chief-of-song and an outstanding composer of poems in praise of men. Lewis Glyn Cothi suggests, in a poem to John ap David (Works, 108), that
LLYWELYN SION (fl. second half of the 16th century), poet, farmer, at one time beadle or crier in the courts, a professional copyist by trade, and one of the most important figures in the literary life of Glamorganshire his reputation to the fact that he was the greatest professional copyist of his time; he was not as prolific a copyist as John Jones (1578? - 1658?) of Gellilyfdy or Robert Vaughan of Hengwrt, but his MSS. are far more systematic and he has kept aloof from contemporary literary prejudices. There are thirteen of his MSS. still in existence - seven being collections of cywyddau and awdlau, one of
LOCKLEY, RONALD MATHIAS (1903 - 2000), farmer, naturalist, conservationist and author year or so of the war, Ronald Lockley wrote letters describing nature and life on Skokholm to John Buxton (1912–1989), his ornithological and literary brother-in-law. The correspondence continued when John was captured by the Germans in Norway and he was transferred to a prisoner-of-war camp where he was able to study the redstart with the help of the German ornithologist Erwin Stresemann (1889-1972
LORT family Stackpole, GEORGE LORT came from Staffordshire to Pembrokeshire c. 1567 as steward of the Stackpole estate under Margaret Stanley; later on he bought the estate. His heir was his son ROGER LORT (1555? - 1613), sheriff in 1607; then came HENRY LORT (sheriff in 1619), who was said to have been deeply involved in smuggling on the Pembrokeshire coast. Henry had three sons: ROGER (who lived at Stackpole); JOHN
LOVELAND, KENNETH (1915 - 1998), journalist and music critic Kenneth Loveland was born on 12 October 1915 in Sheerness, Kent, the son of Charles John Loveland, described in the 1911 census as a 'salesman and outfitter' (born c.1886), and his wife Winifred Jane (née Wraight c.1885). His first experience of music was through listening to the radio, but his subsequent encounters with live music at concerts at London's Queen's Hall left an indelible impression
LOWE, WALTER BEZANT (1854 - 1928), antiquary expense, and especially The Heart of Northern Wales, which originally (1911) was intended to be mainly a revised edition of the History of Aberconwy by Robert Williams (1810 - 1881), but was expanded into a two-volume book (1912 and 1927) of much wider compass. Besides this work, Lowe published (1906) a reprint of John Wynn of Gwydir's Survey of Penmaenmawr; Abbeys and Convents of the Vale of Conway
LUMLEY, RICHARD (1810 - 1884), Calvinistic Methodist minister Born 23 October 1810, at Aberystwyth, eldest of the eleven children of Edward Lumley, builder. He was educated in the well-known school kept by John Evans (1796 - 1861) in that town, and afterwards in the little grammar school at Llanfihangel-genau'r-glyn - in both, Lewis Edwards was his fellow-pupil and the two became intimate friends. He began to preach in 1829 and opened a (not too successful
LYNN-THOMAS, Sir JOHN (1861 - 1939), surgeon
MACDONALD, GORDON (first Baron MACDONALD of GWAENYSGOR), (1888 - 1966), politician Born 27 May 1888 at Gwaenysgor, Prestatyn, Flintshire, son of Thomas Macdonald and Ellen (née Hughes), but the family soon moved to Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancashire, where he was brought up in a Welsh -speaking home. He left S. Luke's Elementary School, Stubshaw Cross, at the age of 13 and worked as a miner until the beginning of World War I, apart from a period as a student at Ruskin College
MACKWORTH, CECILY JOAN (1911 - 2006), writer, poet, journalist and traveller person, it reflects her bifurcated life and loyalties. The sections on Wales especially impressed John Betjeman. Cecily Mackworth died in Paris on 22 July 2006, a few weeks before her 95th birthday. She was buried with her husband in Normandy. At the age of 93, she had begun an autobiography. She entitled her typescript Out of the Black Mountains.
MACLEAN, Sir EWEN JOHN (1865 - 1953), first professor of obstetrics and gynaecology at the Welsh National School of Medicine Ewen Maclean was born 15 October 1865 in the Scottish Highlands, the second son of John Maclean of Tiree, a master cordwainer (shoemaker) and Agnes Macmillan, a habitual speaker of Gaelic. While the boys were still young the family moved to south Wales where Ewen and his older brother Donald (later to become a prominent Liberal politician) attended Haverfordwest and Carmarthen Grammar Schools
MADOCKS, WILLIAM ALEXANDER (1773 - 1828), industrialist and philanthropist Born 17 June 1773 (according to NLW MS 10590C), third son of John Madocks, Fron Iw, Denbighshire (J. E. Griffith, Pedigrees 315). He went to Jesus College, Oxford (1790), and became Fellow of All Souls, Oxford, 1794, Radical M.P. for Boston, 1802-18, and Chippenham, 1820-6. His scrapbooks display an interest in the careers of such men as Alexander and Columbus, Plutarch's heroes, engineers

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