Dictionary of Welsh Biography

LACY (DE) family, lords Ewyas, Weobley, WALTER, the first baron (died 1085), hailed from Lassy in Normandy, and ranked among the pioneers of Norman settlement in the southern March of Wales. After the Welsh estates had been held successively by his sons, ROGER (deprived as a rebel in 1094) and HUGH I (died without direct heirs in 1121), they passed eventually to a grandson GILBERT (fl. 1150), father of HUGH II (died 1186), who was a
LEIGHTON of St. Mellons, 1st Baron - see SEAGER, GEORGE LEIGHTON
LEWIS, DAVID VIVIAN PENROSE (1st Baron Brecon), (1905 - 1976), politician the Council's report but agreed to appoint a Minister of State for Welsh Affairs and to develop further measures of administrative devolution. Vivian Lewis was appointed Minister of State for Welsh Affairs on 12 December and he was created a hereditary peer as Baron Brecon of Llanfeugan, Brecknock, on 30 January 1958. The astonishment which greeted the appointment was recorded by The Economist: “How
LEWIS, ERASMUS (1670 - 1754), writer of 'news-letters' and holder of posts under the Government to Stella makes frequent references to Lewis, who had become a member of a literary and political circle which included the Dean, Robert Harley, Alexander Pope, John Arbuthnot, and a person who is not named in that connection in D.N.B., viz. Thomas Mansel (1st baron Mansel) of Margam, Glamorganshire. There are several letters, 1700-13, from Lewis to Thomas Mansel in the Margam and Penrice
LEWIS, Sir WILLIAM THOMAS (first BARON MERTHYR of SENGHENYDD), (1837 - 1914), coal magnate
LLOYD family Dolobran, old meeting house were bought by SAMPSON SAMUEL LLOYD in 1877 and another member of the family, HENRY LLOYD, had bought Lower Dolobran and Coedcowryd in 1872-3. GEORGE AMBROSE LLOYD (1879 - 1941), first baron Lloyd of Dolobran, was the second son of Sampson Samuel Lloyd, the heir of the purchaser of Dolobran.
LLWYD, HUMPHREY (c. 1527 - 1568), antiquary and map-maker support for the Bill for translating the Bible into Welsh suggests otherwise. It has been suggested that his return to Denbigh may have been a way of absenting himself from the plotting with which Lumley especially was increasingly associated. Also it is unlikely that a known Catholic would have gained the blessing of Robert Dudley, the Earl of Leicester and Baron of Denbigh, a staunch Protestant, as MP
LOCKLEY, RONALD MATHIAS (1903 - 2000), farmer, naturalist, conservationist and author which Ann their daughter relates her life on the island: Early Morning Island or A Dish of Sprats (1939), featuring the Baron, George Henry Owen Harries, a colourful character who had served in the Boer War and from the late 1930s onwards lived with the Lockley family as a mechanic and handyman. An account of his life was written down by Lockley and published as A Pot of Smoke, 1940. During the first
LOYD, LEWIS (1767 - 1858), banker retired to his seat at Overstone, where he died 13 May, 1858. His only son, SAMUEL JONES (Loyd ?) (1796 - 1883), who succeeded to the banking business, sat in Parliament as Liberal member for Hythe, from 1819-26 and was created baron Overstone in 1850. He left one daughter who married Robert James Loyd-Lindsay, afterwards lord Wantage.
MACDONALD, GORDON (first Baron MACDONALD of GWAENYSGOR), (1888 - 1966), politician , colliers and small farmers who called him 'the governor of the poor'. He steered the state to independence within the dominion of Canada and on the day of confederation in 1949 he returned to Britain and was elevated Baron of Gwaenysgor. Though he held the post of Paymaster General during 1949-51, Commonwealth and international affairs interested him most. In 1950 he attended a meeting of the United
MAELOR of RHOS, Baron - see JONES, THOMAS WILLIAM
MANSEL family Oxwich, Penrice, Margam abbey, (died 1723), baronet, was created 1st baron Mansel, 31 December 1711. Sir Thomas became prominent not only in South Wales affairs but in Parliamentary and Government circles also. He was Member of Parliament for Cardiff, 1689-98, and for Glamorgan from 1699 to 1711. Archaeologia Britannica, 1707, by Edward Lhuyd, is dedicated to him. From 1704 to 1709 and 1711 to 1712 he was Controller of the

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