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LEWIS, TIMOTHY (1877 - 1958), ysgolhaig Cymraeg a Chelteg Ganwyd 17 Chwefror 1877 mewn tŷ o'r enw Noble Court ger capel Nebo ym mhentref yr Efail-wen ym mhlwyf Cilymaenllwyd ar y ffin rhwng siroedd Penfro a Chaerfyrddin. Ef oedd y bachgen hynaf a'r trydydd o saith plentyn Job a Mary Lewis. Gweithiai'r tad yn chwarel Llwyn'rebol yn yr ardal ond wedi i berchenogion y chwarel fethu talu i'r gweithwyr am chwech wythnos o waith yn 1880, penderfynodd ef fynd
LEWIS, TIMOTHY (1877 - 1958), Welsh and Celtic scholar Born 17 February 1877, in a house called Noble Court near Nebo chapel in the village of Efail-wen, Cilymaenllwyd parish, on the border between Pembrokeshire and Carmarthenshire. He was the eldest son and third of seven children of Job and Mary Lewis. The father worked locally in Llwyn'rebol quarry but after the quarry owners failed to pay the workers for six weeks' work in 1880 he decided to go
LLYWELYN ap RHISIART (fl. 1520-1565), Chief Bard of the Three Provinces', and one of the most notable poets in the history of Glamorgan historian because he wrote at a time of revolutionary changes in religion, law, and society. As the family poet of the Herberts he came into contact with the family which filled most of the important posts under the new dispensation. In the poems he addressed to them it is easy to see the attraction which the Court at London had for those who were the mainstay of Welsh literature and culture and to
LINDEN, DIEDERICH WESSEL (bu farw 1769), medical doctor and mineralogist of its founders, Hywel Harris, Trevecka. In April 1759, four men, Thomas Price and George Adney of Brecon, Evan Phillip of Llangammarch Wells and one Thomas Protherto separately accused Linden of physical assault 'with an intent [of] that most horrid detestable and abominable Crime of amongst Christians not to be named, called Buggery'. All four accusations were dismissed by the Court of Great
LLEWELLYN, Syr DAVID RICHARD (1879 - 1940), perchennog glofeydd Aberdâr (Goytre, Llewellyn St., yna Fairfield House) yr oedd yn weithgar ar y Cyngor Tref (cadeirydd 1920), yn Uwch Gwnstabl Cantref Meisgyn, ac yn Rhyddfrydwr ac Undodwr amlwg (Hen-dŷ-cwrdd, Aberdâr). Bu'n drysorydd Coleg y Brifysgol, Caerdydd, 1922, ac yn llywydd y coleg 1924. Dyfarnwyd barwnigaeth iddo yn 1922, ac LL.D. er anrhydedd Prifysgol Cymru yn 1929. Symudodd i fyw i The Court, Sain Ffagan. Ei
LLEWELLYN, Sir DAVID RICHARD (1879 - 1940), coalowner and he was awarded an hon. LL.D. by the University of Wales in 1929. He moved to The Court, St. Fagans. His chief hobbies were hunting (both he and his brother were masters of the Bwllfa hunt) and horses. He married Magdalene (daughter of Henry Harries, ' Afonwy ', Baptist minister of Treherbert) in 1905 and they had 4 sons and 4 daughters. Following the death of their eldest son Rhys the baronetcy
teulu LLOYD Leighton, Moel-y-garth, king when civil war broke out, becoming governor of Devises and receiving knighthood in the field (1 November 1644). He followed the Court abroad, but died soon after the Restoration, loaded with debts incurred in the royal service, and petitioning in vain (and his mother and sister after him) for arrears of pay sufficient to stave off destitution. His brother, Sir GODFREY LLOYD, also served as an
LLOYD, DAVID MYRDDIN (1909 - 1981), librarian and Welsh scholar literary qualities of the poetry of Cynddelw Brydydd Mawr. This was one of the first modern discussions not so much of the language of the 12th and 13th-century court poets as on their stylistics and literary concepts. Little of the work of the Gogynfeirdd (Welsh court poets) had been adequately edited at this time and Myrddin Lloyd's mastery of their language, metrics and style, and particularly these
LLOYD, JOHN (1833 - 1915), political reformer and antiquary very valuable work as an antiquary. Involved in disputes on manorial rights and ancient customs, he had formed a good collection of historical documents; and he also rescued a mass of papers from the office of Henry Maybery, a Brecon attorney much concerned in the affairs of some of the early South Wales ironmasters, treasurer of the county, and deputy-registrar of the consistory court. Lloyd
LLOYD, LUDOVIC (fl. 1573-1610), courtier, versifier, and compiler ' extension of his tenure, the latter escaped legal proceedings, a fact which may be taken to attest his popularity at court. His sale of his interest in the rectory and tithes of this parish to an agent of Richard Herbert, father of Edward, lord Herbert of Cherbury, led to protracted proceedings in the court of exchequer. The story that he financed the poet Spenser's funeral may or may not be true - it is
LLOYD, Sir RICHARD (1606 - 1676) Esclus, royalist and judge (not 'Richard' as given by Griffith) of Deneio and Nefyn. Their third son (fifth son according to some) was RODERICK LLOYD (died 1730) of Hafodwryd, Penmachno, Caernarfonshire, who entered Lincoln's Inn in 1684 (and who spent most of his life there), and became (as had his uncle Richard Anwyl) Clerk of the Outlawries in the Court of Common Pleas. It is often said that he was protonotary to his famous
LLOYD, Syr RICHARD (1606 - 1676), Brenhinwr a barnwr ym Mhenmachno, a ymaelododd yn Lincoln's Inn yn 1684 (ac a fwriodd y rhan fwyaf o'i oes ynddo), ac a ddaeth (fel ei ewythr Richard Anwyl) yn 'Clerk of the Outlawries in the Court of Common Pleas.' Dywedir yn aml ei fod yn 'protonotary' i'w gymydog enwog Syr Robert Price o'r Giler, ond nid ymddengys ei enw yn rhestrau W. R. Williams (The Welsh Judges) - er hynny, y mae'n amlwg fod cyswllt agos, ar

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