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LEWIS, RICHARD (Dic Penderyn; 1807/8 - 1831), miner and revolutionary martyr then said to be 23 years of age. Four Wesleyan Methodist ministers, among them William Rowlands (Gwilym Lleyn), who had been with him during the previous hours, accompanied him to the scaffold. An eloquent letter to his sister, written by or for him in gaol, asked that arrangements be made for his burial. The funeral procession through the Vale of Glamorgan on the following day, Sunday, 14 August
LLAWDDEN (fl. 1450), cywyddwr His cywydd to Ieuan Gwyn ap Gwilym Fwyaf shows that he was a native of Loughor, but he was known as ' Llawdden of Machynlleth.' Most of his poems were written to the families of Thomas ap Rosier of Hergest, and Phylip ap Rhys and Maredudd Fychan of Maelienydd. In the Carmarthen Eisteddfod of 1451 he is known to have accused Gruffudd ap Nicolas of being bribed to give the chair to Dafydd ab Edmwnd
LLEWELLYN, DAVID TREHARNE (1916 - 1992), Conservative politician participated in debates. His maiden speech was, characteristically, on the needs of pensioners. Cardiff always remained central to his political outlook. He took an especial pride in putting down the question to Gwilym Lloyd-George which brought the confirmation that Cardiff was to be granted 'Welsh capital city' status in 1955. Harold Macmillan recommended him for a knighthood in his dissolution honours
teulu LLOYD GEORGE under a crust of earth '. A beautiful marble statue of her by W. Goscombe John was placed over her grave in Cricieth cemetery. OLWEN ELIZABETH LLOYD GEORGE (Lady Olwen Carey Evans; 1892 - 1990) GWILYM LLOYD GEORGE (1894 - 1894), 1st Viscount Tenby, created 1957 privy councillor, 1941, J.P. Public and Social Service, Civil Administration Law Born 4 December 1894; educated at Eastbourne College and
LLOYD GEORGE, DAVID (the first Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor), (1863 - 1945), statesman - 1968), Mair Eluned (1890 - 1907), Olwen Elizabeth (1892 - 1990) (who married Sir Thomas John Carey Evans), Gwilym (1894 - 1967), and Megan (1902 - 1966), (2) 23 October 1943, Frances Louise, daughter of John Stevenson of Wallington, Surrey, his long-serving personal assistant and companion.
LLOYD GEORGE, GWILYM - gweler LLOYD GEORGE
LLOYD, DAVID (1805 - 1863), principal of Carmarthen Presbyterian College and Unitarian minister argument and engaged in hot debate with D. A. Williams, chancellor of the diocese of S. Davids, Hugh William Jones (Baptist) of Carmarthen, bishop Thirlwall, and Gwilym Marles, on the tenets of Theodore Parker. He sought to improve education in the town and worked hard to get a hospital and a public cemetery. When he died, Welsh students lost a stalwart friend and the Unitarian movement in the town
LLOYD, DAVID TECWYN (1914 - 1992), literary critic, author, educationalist Storïau Eraill ('E. H. Francis Thomas', 1972; Saunders Lewis (ed. with Gwilym Rees Hughes), 1975; Y Wers Rydd a'i Hamserau (Darlith Lenyddol Eisteddfod Caernarfon), 1979; Gysfenu i'r Wasg Gynt, (Darlith Radio Flynyddol BBC Cymru), 1980; Bore Da Lloyd, a Chofnodion Eraill, 1980; Grawnsypiau i'w Macsu, neu Bwysïau gan Hen Bisyn (poetry by Miss J. M. Davies, private publication); Cymysgadw, 1986; Drych o
LLOYD, Sir JOHN EDWARD (1861 - 1947), historian, and first editor of Y Bywgraffiadur Cymreig a First in Honours Classical Moderations, and in 1885 he was placed in the First Class in the final examination in History. His career at Oxford was, thus, nearing its completion before the time of the famous group of Oxford Welshmen (like Owen M. Edwards who went up in October 1884), and it was over before the Dafydd ap Gwilym Society was established in 1886; but of course, he very quickly
LLWYD, Sir DAFYDD, Elizabethan poet He is described in a volume of works and transcripts of Gwilym Pue ('Brithwaith Gwilym Pue') (NLW MS 4710B) as a charming little priest of Brecon ('lepidus ministellus Breconiensis'). Three cywyddau by him, to a lady, have been preserved, with several verbal variants, in Cwrtmawr MS 21B, Cardiff MS. 64, NLW MS 552B, NLW MS 832E, NLW MS 834B, NLW MS 5269B, and 'Cywydd y Pwrs' in NLW MS 4710B. His
(fl. 1268), eulogist Gwilym Ddu associates him with 'Twr Edeirnion,' i.e. Hendwr, Llandrillo, Meironnydd. His poems fall into two groups: (a) in praise of minor princes in northern Powys, viz. Gruffudd (died 1269) and Hywel (died c. 1268), sons of Madog ap Gruffudd Maelor; and Llywelyn, son of the above-mentioned Gruffudd ap Madog. These princes were usually loyal to Llywelyn ap Gruffydd, and they are praised for
LLYWARCH ap LLYWELYN (fl. 1173-1220) Gwynedd, court-poet expressed on the aggression of princes are more in keeping with the views of the latter. Llywarch's nickname is not easy to explain; possibly his reference to swine in The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales, 204 a, 26 may account for it. There is some reason for supposing that he was displeased by the favours granted to his fellow-poet, Gwilym Ryfel, at the court of Dafydd ab Owain Gwynedd (The Myvyrian

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