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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, THOMAS ARNOLD (1893 - 1952), insurance manager, treasurer of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion Born 20 April 1893, son of Captain Thomas Lewis and Elizabeth (née Jones) his wife, Manor Hall, Aberaeron, Cardiganshire. He was educated locally and at Ardwyn School, Aberystwyth, before joining an insurance firm, eventually becoming insurance manager of a branch of the Alliance Assurance Co. in the West End of London. He was a member of the Court of Assistants of the Worshipful Co. of Horners
LLOYD GEORGE, DAVID (the first Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor), (1863 - 1945), statesman , which included the setting up of a Land Enquiry Committee. In the same year a Select Committee of the House of Commons was set up to investigate allegations made respecting certain Ministers, including Lloyd George, in connection with share holdings in the American Marconi Co. All the persons involved were acquitted of acting otherwise than in good faith. When war with Germany was declared in August
LLOYD, CHARLES (1766 - 1829), Unitarian minister and schoolmaster was quite successful. But in 1799 he took to farming at Coedlannau, and lost much money at it. Now a declared Unitarian, he sought to become co-pastor with David Davis of Castellhywel, at Llwynrhydowen, but Davis (an Arian) would have none of him - at that time. Arianism and the 'new' Unitarianism were in conflict (see the appendix to R. J. Jones's Unitarian Students at Carmarthen, and A History of
LLOYD, DAVID JOHN (1886 - 1951), headmaster period under the leadership of the learned and cultured headmaster who succeeded in winning the support of the governors and co-operation of his staff as well as the admiration of his pupils. He sacrificed much to ensure that the school overcame the difficult problems which arose during World War II, particularly in the changes to school staff. There was a noticeable increase in the number of pupils in
LLOYD, DAVID TECWYN (1914 - 1992), literary critic, author, educationalist wandered into many directions and attention was regularly given to Current Affairs in this period leading up to and during the early years of World War Two. Tecwyn Lloyd encouraged his students to compose their own work and and during these years their work was published in a magazine entitled Llafar Gwlad. His co-tutor was Islwyn Pritchard and together they organised a number of walking tours in the
LLOYD, JACOB YOUDE WILLIAM (Chevalier Lloyd; 1816 - 1887), historian and antiquary son of Jacob William Hinde of Langham Hall, Essex, D.L., and of Harriet, his wife, daughter and co-heiress of the Rev. Thomas Youde of Clochfaen, Montgomeryshire, and Plasmadog. He was educated at Wadham College, Oxford, was ordained deacon, December 1839, and became curate of Llandinam, Montgomeryshire. At the end of a year he was ordained priest, but resigned some time between the end of
LLOYD, JOHN (1885 - 1964), schoolmaster, author and local historian his old school in Barmouth under Edmund D. Jones between 1907-19 and at the county school Tregaron, for the year 1919-20. In 1920 he was appointed a teacher at the grammar school Dolgellau, and headmaster in 1925, a post which he held until his retirement in August 1946. He is remembered as the co- translator with T.P. Ellis of The Mabinogion (1929) in two volumes. This was the second complete
LLOYD, Sir RICHARD (1606 - 1676) Esclus, royalist and judge April 1642 in combating (by delaying tactics and counter-proposals) the agitation for the abolition of the council at Ludlow, and early in June he attended the king at York with assurances of loyalty from the six counties. He entertained Charles on his recruiting visits to Wrexham on 27 September and 7 October 1642, receiving knighthood on the latter occasion [and he helped to co-ordinate local
LLOYD, WILLIAM VALENTINE (1825 - 1896), co-secretary of the Powysland Club, sometime editor of the Montgomeryshire Collections Born 14 February 1825 in London, son of William Lloyd and Jane (Fitzgerald). Educated at Shrewsbury School and Trinity College, Dublin, he was ordained deacon in 1850 (priest, 1851), and licensed as curate of the mission of Lennoxville, Canada. In 1856 he was appointed to the vicarage of Marton, co. Salop. On 15 April 1858 he became a chaplain in the Royal Navy and a naval instructor, 12 July
LLOYD-JONES, DAVID MARTYN (1899 - 1981), minister and theologian to appoint him Principal of Bala Theological College, the appointment was blocked by the denomination. On another occasion, attempts were made to appoint him leader of the Forward Movement, a position later held by his brother-in-law, the Rev. Ieuan Phillips. 'The Dr', as he was called by his later followers, ministered at Sandfields for eleven years before receiving an invitation in 1938 to be co
LOCKLEY, RONALD MATHIAS (1903 - 2000), farmer, naturalist, conservationist and author toll on the co-farmers, and there were many set backs including a serious injury. By the end of 1943 the Lockleys gave up Cwmgloyne Farm. Island Farm was agriculturally successful in the last years of the war but the marriage was in the doldrums. By March 1946 Ronald and Doris were divorced. The West Wales Field Society convened as the war drew to a close, and instigated a survey of Skomer

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