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LANGFORD, JOHN (1640? - 1715/6?)
LAUGHARNE, ROWLAND (bu farw 1676?), Parliamentary major-general The son of John Laugharne of S. Brides, Pembrokeshire, and his wife, Janet, daughter of Sir Hugh Owen of Orielton in that county. In his youth he was page to Robert Devereux, third earl of Essex, and he may have accompanied him on military service in the Low Countries. When the Civil War broke out in August 1642, some of the leading gentry in south Pembrokeshire, supported by merchants who had
LAWS, EDWARD (1837 - 1913), historian was the eldest son of admiral John Milligen Laws (born 1799) of Marchfield House, Binfield, Berks., and Mary (1815 - 1899), daughter of Charles Delamotte Mathias (1777 - 1851), of Lamphey Court and Llangwaran, Pembrokeshire. His parents were married on 25 June 1836 and he was born on 17 April 1837 and christened in Lamphey church on 4 July. He was educated at Rugby and Wadham College, Oxford
LEACH, ARTHUR LEONARD (1869 - 1957), historian, geologist and archaeologist Born at Tenby, 12 November 1869, elder son of John and Sarah Leach of Tenby. John Leach (1841 - 1916), having been a printer with the Tenby Observer, established his own printing and publishing business in the town and launched a successful rival local newspaper, to which his younger son Ernest H. Leach subsequently succeeded; both sons shared his antiquarian interests which may have been
LEATHART, WILLIAM DAVIES (bu farw after 1840), historian of the Gwyneddigion Society of London Society of London. Instituted M.DCC.LXX., was published in London by Hugh Pierce Hughes, in 1831. This has proved a most valuable source-book for the history of the Society and an important contribution to the story of London - Welsh life at the end of the 18th century and the first thirty years of the 19th. It is also a source-book for the history of the eisteddfodau sponsored by the Gwyneddigion. He
LEE, ROWLAND (bu farw 1543), bishop of Coventry and Lichfield (which included at that time what later became the diocese of Chester) (1534-1543), and president of the Council in Wales and the Marches for the same period monastic establishments; he had also been closely associated with Thomas Cromwell, and was destined to continue that association after he came to Ludlow (see his letters to Cromwell preserved in the P.R.O.). When he followed another bishop (John Voysey, bp. of Exeter) as president, he found that his predecessor had left him a legacy of lawlessness, partly the result of weak administration. He realized
teulu LESTRANGE Great Ness, Cheswardine, Knockin, JOHN LESTRANGE (died c. 1269) witnessed the treaty between Dafydd ap Gruffydd and Henry III in May 1240, was appointed in March 1241 to try Dafydd, and in January 1245 was a commissioner to make peace with him. HAWISE, daughter of this John Lestrange, married Gruffydd ap Gwenwynwyn. In the years 1244-5 John Lestrange wrote to Henry III telling of Gruffydd's support for the English cause; he aided
LEVI, THOMAS (1825 - 1916), Calvinistic Methodist minister, editor of Trysorfa y Plant, and author Born 12 October 1825 at Penrhos near Ystradgynlais, son of John and Prudence Levi. He received his early education at a school kept by an old soldier at Ystradgynlais, and later, while still a boy, worked at Ynyscedwyn iron works. About 1846 he began to preach at Cwmgïedd chapel, Ystradgynlais. He was minister of Capel yr Ynys, Ystradgynlais, about 1855-60, of Philadelphia, Morriston, 1860-76
LEVY, MERVYN MONTAGUE (1914 - 1996), writer and broadcaster on the visual arts . Levy attended the Swansea School of Art under its influential Principal, William Grant Murray, before progressing to the Royal College of Art in London in 1932. He shared a flat in Chelsea with Thomas and Janes, and later also with the painter William Scott. The group adopted a Bohemian life style emulating that of Augustus John, whom Levy regarded as their 'lode star'. At the Royal College he
LEWES, ERASMUS (1663? - 1745), cleric The sixth and youngest son of Captain John Lewes (below), Gernos, in the parish of Llangunllo ('Llanvayer ' according to Foster, Alumni Oxonienses), Cardiganshire. He entered Jesus College, Oxford, 22 February 1683/4, aged 20, graduating in 1688. He became vicar of Roch, Pembrokeshire, 16 June 1692, and vicar of Brawdy, Pembrokeshire, 5 March 1694. In 1695 he became rector of Betws Bledrws and
LEWES, Captain JOHN - gweler LEWES, ERASMUS
LEWES, Sir WATKIN (1740 - 1821), lord mayor of London became lord mayor. In 1771 he had presented addresses in the Tower from the counties of Pembroke, Carmarthen, and Cardigan to the political prisoners, John Wilkes, the lord mayor Crosby, and alderman Oliver. In 1780 he was elected one of the four M.P. s for the City of London, which seat he retained until 1796. He took an active interest in Welsh literature and music, and was at one time Treasurer of

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