Dictionary of Welsh Biography

LEWIS, DAVID (1828 - 1908), musician tunes and hymns. For descriptions of his numerous manuscripts, together with those of his brother, John Lewis (Eos Glan Wyre), see N.L.W. Handlist of MSS., xiii. He died 6 October 1908, and was buried in Llanrhystud churchyard.
LEWIS, DAVID WYRE (1872 - 1966), minister and administrator (B) Born 13 May 1872 at Felinganol, Llanrhystud Mefenydd, Cardiganshire, son of the poet and musician John Lewis ('Eos Glyn Wyre '; 1836 - 1892), Tŷ-mawr, and Jane (née Davies; 1844 - 1917), Felinganol, and nephew of the musician David Lewis (1828 - 1908). He was educated in the church school in the village, and was apprenticed to a carpenter at Trawsgoed. Because of lack of work locally he moved to
LEWIS, JOHN (Eos Glyn Wyre; 1836 - 1892), poet and musician
JONES, TOM ELLIS (1900 - 1975), Baptist minister and college Principal Wrexham, before joining the Army toward the end of the First World War, serving in Germany and Ireland and completing his service in 1919. By then, under the ministry of the Reverend D. Wyre Lewis, he had started to preach. He entered the local Preparatory School for ministers, conducted by the Reverend J. Powell Griffiths in the English Baptist church in Ponciau, and in 1920 he matriculated and gained
DEWI Saint , founder and abbot-bishop of S. Davids, and patron saint of Wales Martyrology of Oengus' (c. 800) 1 March is recorded as his festival. There are churches associated with his name in South Wales, Brittany, Cornwall, and southwestern England. Of the churches named after him in Wales (the majority of them probably founded by him), there is not one to the north of a line drawn from the mouth of the river Wyre to Glasbury. It is likely that the distribution of his churches
EOS GLAN WYRE - see LEWIS, JOHN
EOS GLYN WYRE - see LEWIS, JOHN

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