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LEWIS, GRUFFYDD THOMAS (1873 - 1964), schoolmaster and a leading layman in the Presbyterian Church of Wales , founder of the drapery firm of Harries of Oxford Street, London. She managed the small farm of Pil-rhoth, thus allowing her husband to continue his itinerant preaching. He died in 1896, aged 66, and she, who was of the same family as William Williams, M.P., died at an advanced age in 1933. The son was named Gruffydd Thomas after an elder of that name, his father's bosom friend of Aberystwyth days. G
LEWIS, HUGH (1562 - 1634), cleric, author, poet during that period he had been occupied in translating a treatise by Otto Werdmüller of Zurich which had been rendered into English, 1550, by Miles Coverdale under the title A Spyrytuall and moost Precious Pearle teaching all Men to Loue and Imbrace ye Crosse. The Welsh version bore the title Perl mewn Adfyd and was first published in 1595. A reprint of this book was edited by W. J. Gruffydd, 1929
LEWIS, JOHN SAUNDERS (1893 - 1985), politician, critic and dramatist in the University of Wales by-election. For weeks he was the only candidate in the field, but eventually the Liberal Party managed to persuade W. J. Gruffydd to stand as an independent candidate. The election turned into a bitter contest between the supporters of the two candidates. Lewis was accused by Gwilym Davies in the journal Y Traethodydd of representing 'the fascist Party in Wales' and of
LEWIS, LEWIS WILLIAM (Llew Llwyfo; 1831 - 1901), poet, novelist, and journalist ; with 'Caradog' in the national eisteddfod held at Aberdare, 1861; with 'Llewelyn' in the Rhyl eisteddfod, 1863; with 'Dafydd' in the national eisteddfod held at Aberystwyth, 1865; with 'Arthur y Ford Gron' in the Chester national eisteddfod, 1866; with 'Elias y Thespiad' in Ruthin eisteddfod, 1868; with 'Gruffydd ap Cynan' in the Wrexham national eisteddfod, 1888; and with 'Ioan y Disgybl Anwyl' in
LEWIS, OWEN (1533 - 1594), bishop of Cassano, Borromeo. And in the archbishop's palace he enjoyed the company of his fellow-countryman, Gruffydd Robert, who was also one of Borromeo's 'family,' and acted as one of his confessors. Gruffydd Robert appears to have assisted him from time to time in his work as vicar general. In November 1584 Borromeo died, and two months afterwards Owen Lewis was back in Rome, where he spent the rest of his life
LEWIS, TIMOTHY (1877 - 1958), Welsh and Celtic scholar people wrote to him expressing their pleasure that he had defended ' Iolo Morganwg ' (Edward Williams, 1747 - 1826) and the Gorsedd and that he was neither ashamed nor afraid of disagreeing with J. Morris-Jones and W. J. Gruffydd. He corresponded regularly with many friends in the world of scholarship and particularly with Gwenogvryn Evans. The two families became close friends and in the 1920s Timothy
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teulu LLOYD Leighton, Moel-y-garth, The family of Lloyd of Leighton was founded by DAVID LLOYD (died 1497), son of the Sir Gruffydd Vychan who fought at Agincourt and was executed in 1447 at the instance of Henry Gray, lord of Powys, and descended through Brochwel ab Aeddan from Elise, prince of Powys. On David Lloyd's death his wide estates were divided between the children of his two marriages, who founded numerous families of
LLOYD, DAVID TECWYN (1914 - 1992), literary critic, author, educationalist a brother to Robert (Bob) Lloyd, and Reverend Trebor Lloyd Evans, Morriston, and Aled Lloyd Davies were his cousins. Tecwyn Lloyd claimed that he could trace his family back to Rhirid Flaidd. After his early education at Llawrybetws primary school where the headteacher, Rhys Gruffydd, was, he said, an important influence on him, he proceeded to Bala Boys' Grammar School (Ysgol Tytandomen). After
LLOYD, JOHN (1885 - 1964), schoolmaster, author and local historian translation of the Mabinogion into English since Lady Charlotte Guest's version in 1838-49). Their translation was critically reviewed at the time by scholars such as W.J. Gruffydd and J. Lloyd-Jones but nevertheless it remained a useful work until the appearance in 1948 of a new translation by Gwyn Jones and Thomas Jones. He also published two school textbooks in Welsh entitled: Detholiad o draethodau
LLOYD, Sir RICHARD (1606 - 1676) Esclus, royalist and judge The son of Evan Lloyd of Dulasau, Caernarfonshire (not of Primus Lloyd of Marrington, as in D.N.B.). His family had been settled for centuries in the neighbourhood of Penmachno, claiming descent from a bastard son of Dafydd, brother of prince Llywelyn ap Gruffydd; he was nephew to a vicar of Ruabon and first cousin to three other North Wales incumbents, and a bishop of Bangor (Humphrey Lloyd
LLWYD, HUMPHREY (c. 1527 - 1568), antiquary and map-maker had received his B.A. in 1547 and thereafter had been a commoner of Brasenose College where he received his M.A. in 1551. Wood's assertion that Llwyd studied medicine appears to be based on the existence of two translations of medical texts which were ascribed to Llwyd. However, as Professor R. Geraint Gruffydd points out, they are more likely to have been the work of Humphrey Lloyd of Leighton who

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