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LEWIS, THOMAS (fl. 1731-1749), translator and Methodist exhorter He is said to have been the brother of John Lewis (fl. 1728-55) the printer. He is also believed to have been responsible for the translation into Welsh of Bunyan's Life and Death of Mr. Badman, under the title of Bywyd a Marwolaeth yr Annuwiol dan enw Mr. Drygddyn (Carmarthen, 1731). He was appointed a 'public (i.e. itinerant) exhorter' at the Watford Association, 1743, but it is not safe to
LEWIS, THOMAS ARNOLD (1893 - 1952), insurance manager, treasurer of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion , and High Sheriff of Cardiganshire in 1949. He assisted Sir John Cecil-Williams and Sir Wynn Wheldon with the financial aspect of the appeal launched in 1937 to publish the Dictionary of Welsh Biography, and he succeeded T. D. Slingsby-Jenkins as treasurer of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion in 1950. On 8 September 1924 he married Eleanora Margaret Evans in Charing Cross Chapel, and they had
LEWIS, Sir THOMAS FRANKLAND (1780 - 1855), politician Born 14 May 1780 in London, he was the son of John Lewis of Harpton Court, and came of a family of distinction in the public and parliamentary life of Radnorshire. He became M.P. for Beaumaris in 1812, and sat successively for that borough, for Ennis (County Clare, Ireland), and for Radnorshire until 1834. He was given minor offices in Tory administrations (including that of treasurer of the navy
LEWIS, TIMOTHY (1877 - 1958), Welsh and Celtic scholar churches in the Clunderwen area, but died aged 34; another son was Thomas John who graduated at University College, Bangor. He was a schoolteacher in Aberdare, and rose to be director of education for Aberdare. The poet, Alun Lewis, was his son. Most probably Timothy Lewis left school at the age of 13 and worked in the mines until he was 22. It is also likely that he had began preaching by then and set
LEWIS, Sir WILFRID HUBERT POYER (1881 - 1950), judge . He married (1), in 1908, Margaret Annie (died 1932), daughter of Sir John Eldon Bankes of Soughton Hall, Northop, Flintshire, and in 1934 (2), Elizabeth, daughter of Dr. David Barty King of London. He died 15 March 1950.
LEWIS, WILLIAM (1835? - 1918), printer and publisher Born at Tewkesbury. The printing business at Cardiff, founded by John Bird in 1791 and conducted in 1855 by Hugh Bird, was transferred by the latter in 1866 to his two assistants, William Lewis and John Williams, who worked in partnership until 1873 when William Lewis became sole proprietor. Lewis had, prior to coming to Cardiff, served as an assistant in a book and stationery establishment at
LEWIS, WILLIAM JAMES (1847 - 1926), mineralogist Born 10 January 1847 at Llanwyddelan, Montgomeryshire, second son of John Lewis, cleric. From Llanrwst grammar school he went up in 1865 to Jesus College, Oxford, and took firsts in mathematical moderations 1867, and final schools 1868, and in natural science 1869. In 1872 he was elected Fellow of Oriel - having been elected under the old statutes, and having remained unmarried, he was able to
LHUYD, EDWARD (1660 - 1709), botanist, geologist, antiquary, and philologist experimental sciences : making inflammable paper from mineral asbestos (December 1684), description of plants from North Wales which John Ray had omitted from his catalogue (January 1685-6), etc. In January 1685-6, too, he presented the Society with a new catalogue of shells in the Museum, entitled Cochlearum omnium tam terrestrium quam marinarum quae in hoc Musæo continentur, Distributio classica juxta
LINDEN, DIEDERICH WESSEL (bu farw 1769), medical doctor and mineralogist into debt that he was committed to Fleet Prison on 20 January 1747 for a little over a month. By the spring of that year, he had quitted London for Wales. By the second half of 1747, Linden had drawn up leases with the goldsmith Richard Richardson, Chester, and John Williams, Holywell, to develop mines at Caerwys and Prestatyn. As a result, he relocated to Holywell. It is around this time that Linden
LLEISION ap THOMAS (fl. 1513-1541), last abbot of Neath that, Lleision was forced to give up his post on 9 February 1539 and to hand over all the abbey's possessions to the king. Sir John Price, the Crown deputy, made an earnest appeal to Thomas Cromwell to treat the abbot generously, and this appeal was not made in vain, for he was given a pension of £48 and the rectory of Llangattock on condition that he left when he was given ecclesiastical promotion
LLEWELLYN, THOMAS REDVERS (1901 - 1976), singer and teacher of singing Redvers Llewellyn was born at 8 Hunter St, Britton Ferry on 4 December 1901, the son of John Llewellyn (1875-1960), a tin worker, and his wife Catherine (1878-1943). He had an elder brother William (1899-1919) and a younger sister, Annie (1908-1990). He used the name Redvers Llewellyn professionally, but was known to family and friends as Tom. Both his parents were musical and they encouraged him
LLEWELYN, WILLIAM (1735 - 1803), Independent minister April 1769 at latest, and Brown (Free Churches of Leominster) says that he went to Walsall from Hereford. Llewelyn figures in the Leominster Moravian congregation-diary (excerpts in Trafodion Cymdeithas Hanes Bedyddwyr Cymru, 1935, 14-16); after the death of his wife (a daughter of John Jenkins, pastor at Bromyard) his mind became unsettled, and though nominally pastor at Walsall he wandered around

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