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JONES, WILLIAM (1718 - 1773?), early Methodist exhorter, and possibly the first Anglesey Methodist hear no more of him; and it is far from certain that he was the William Jones whose burial on 25 July 1773 is recorded in Llangefni parish register. As the writer of the above article has now pointed out, in his recent book Methodistiaeth Fore Môn (Caernarvon, 1955), p. 94, William Jones of Trefollwyn cannot have been the man who died in 1773. Henllys MS. 138 at Bangor is a copy of the will (signed
LEWIS ab EDWARD (fl. c. 1560), poet He hailed from Bodfari, Denbighshire. Wiliam Thomas ab Edward, the scribe mentioned in Peniarth MS 122: Poetry, &c. (509), is also associated with Bodfari. Lewis ab Edward was also known as Lewis Meirchion, but is often confused with Lewis Môn, a poet who fl. c. 1480-1527. His elegy on the death of Edmund Llwyd of Glynllifon (died 1541) is possibly one of his early compositions. He was present at
LEWIS MON (fl. c. 1480-1527) Llifon, Anglesey, a poet
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
teulu LLOYD Rhiwaedog, Rhiwedog, Brwynog, Siôn Phylip, Richard Phylip, Richard Cynwal, Wiliam Cynwal, Rhys Cain, Wiliam Llŷn, Siôn Tudur, Simwnt Fychan, Tomos Prys, Huw Arwystli, Lewis Dwnn, Tudur Aled, Lewis Môn, Lewis Menai, Owain Gwynedd, besides other lesserknown bards. Even the learned Dr. John Davies of Mallwyd wrote poems to members of this family. (For the 'bardic controversy' between Richard Phylip and Richard Cynwal
LLOYD, EVAN (fl. 1833-1859), printers and publishers everything (e.g. the title of the firm, ' John and Evan Lloyd') suggests that John was the elder brother, but attempts to find his dates have so far been unsuccessful. The firm must have been printing at Mold in 1833 at the latest, for it was in that year that Owen Jones (Meudwy Môn) became a proof-reader in their office, more especially to correct the proofs of the Biblical commentary by James
LLOYD, JOHN (Einion Môn; 1792 - 1834), schoolmaster and poet
LLOYD, OWEN MORGAN (1910 - 1980), minister and poet national festival and is remembered as the witty adjudicator of 'Ymryson y Beirdd' in the literature tent. He was honoured with the White Robe of the Gorsedd as Ap Dyfrdwy, and won chairs in Eisteddfod Tref Caernarfon (1937), Eisteddfod Môn (1953 and 1954), and Eisteddfod Powys (1958). In 1978, when he retired from the ministry, Cymdeithas Barddas presented him with a small volume of his work entitled O
LLYWARCH ap BRAN (fl. c. 1137), founder of one of the 'Fifteen (Noble) Tribes of Gwynedd' is described as brother-in-law of Owain Gwynedd, their wives being daughters of Gronw ab Owain ab Edwin, lord of Tegeingl. Like Hwfa ap Cynddelw, he is said to have been steward to Owain Gwynedd and to have lived in the township of Tref Llywarch, Anglesey; he is also described as lord of the commote of Menai, Anglesey. For the names of some of the families who claimed descent from him see Philip
LLYWELYN ap GUTUN (fl. c. 1480), poet Pennardd, Hywel ap Rheinallt, and Lewis Môn. Ymrysonau, or bardic controversies, occurred between him and the following poets : D. Llwyd of Mathafarn, Guto'r Glyn, Lewys Môn, and Gruffudd ab Ieuan ap Rhys Llwyd.
MEUDWY MÔN - gweler JONES, OWEN
MORGAN, JENKIN (bu farw 1762), Independent minister the North, and as William Prichard had been driven to settle in Anglesey, he too went there. By that time the early concord between Independents and Methodists in North Wales (as elsewhere) had suffered some eclipse. An Independent church was formed, in 1744, at the house of a yeoman named John Owen, Caeau Môn, in Cerrig-Ceinwen parish, and Morgan was ordained as its pastor at Watford

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