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LEACH, ARTHUR LEONARD (1869 - 1957), historian, geologist and archaeologist and Treasurer for fifteen years. To this work he devoted much of his time, while by lectures and regular press reports he kindled a greater public awareness and use of the museum. As early as 1918 he had produced a small publication Some Prehistoric Remains in Tenby Museum (second edn. 1931), and he now brought some expertise to the display of such material. He was uniquely qualified to write an
teulu LEWIS Llwyn-du, Llangelynnin his son, HUMPHREY OWEN II, born some time after 1653, whose will was proved in 1717. Humphrey Owen II's heir was his daughter ANNE, who married Owen Lewis III of Tyddyn-y-garreg. III. A more detailed account can now be given of some members of the Tyddyn-y-garreg family, whose names and dates have been specified in the introductory paragraph. Other lands in Dolgelley and Llanfachreth parishes are
teulu LEWIS Van, 1612. He indulged in a good deal of litigation and added considerably to the family estates. The most interesting of his purchases was St. Fagans castle, bought from Sir William Herbert of Cardiff in 1616, and now the Folk Museum of Wales. This included the present house built by Dr. John Gibbon about 1590. He died 9 January 1628. EDWARD LEWIS (died 1630) He was knighted in 1603. He lived at Edington
LEWIS GLYN COTHI (fl. 1447-1486), one of the greatest of the 15th century Welsh bards shop early in the 19th century, is said to have been largely written by him. About 230 of his poems have been preserved. Of these 154 were printed in The Poetical Works of Lewis Glyn Cothi, published by the Society of Cymmrodorion under the editorship of Walter Davies (Gwallter Mechain) and John Jones (Tegid) in 1837. His entire works are now being issued in three volumes (vol. i, 1953) by the co
LEWIS LLOYD, EMMELINE (1827 - 1913), one of the first women to climb in the Alps Born 18 November 1827, second daughter of Thomas Lewis Lloyd of Nantgwyllt (the manor house in Elan valley where Shelley stayed in 1812 but which is now under the waters of the Caban Coch reservoir) and his wife Anna Eliza Davies, the daughter of Treforgan near Cardigan. After leaving home, Emmeline farmed and bred mountain ponies at Llandyfaelog Fach near Brecon. With her enthusiasm for fishing
LEWIS, DAVID JOHN (1893 - 1982), architect and Lord Mayor of Liverpool Penparcau. The family, which now included four children, moved to Aberystwyth around 1912. In his adolescence, Lewis showed a talent for music and possessed a melodious tenor voice. Trained by his father and his uncle, Thomas Herbert Phillips, he sang at local eisteddfodau and concerts. One of his favourite songs was Gounod's 'Lend me your aid'. After leaving school, Lewis became an apprentice at a local
LEWIS, DAVID VIVIAN PENROSE (1st Baron Brecon), (1905 - 1976), politician uncomfortable time; a joke reported that the BBC now stood for Brooke, Brecon Club. Mrs Jones turned out to be an able chairman of the Broadcasting Council for Wales. Lord Brecon served as Minister of State to Henry Brooke 1957-1961; briefly to Charles Hill 1961-62; and, to Sir Keith Joseph, 1962-64. He remained in the government when Sir Alec Douglas-Home became Prime Minister in 1963. With Joseph's
LEWIS, EVAN (1788? - 1864), Dissenting minister was hung up in Cilgwyn chapel. He left in manuscript a collection of essays entitled 'Dydd y Pethau Bychain,' an account of Cilgwyn church based largely on the now lost church book, and sermons. In 1828 he published the first of six projected parts of a Welsh book on arithmetic (Rhifyddiaeth yn Rhwyddach, Rhan I, Caerfyrddin, 1828). Though over 200 subscribers are listed, this seems to have been the
LEWIS, JANET ELLEN (1900 - 1979), novelist, poet and journalist novel set in the later nineteenth century, evoking the maritime and farming life of coastal Wales in that period. The novel focuses on Lettice Peters, the 'captain's wife' of the title, who has travelled the world on her husband's ships but has now settled with her children in the little cathedral town of 'St Idris', a lightly-fictionalised St David's. The narrative perspective alternates between that
LEWIS, JOHN (bu farw 1616?) Llynwene, Llanfihangel Nant Melan, barrister, and author of The History of Britain Short Account of the Kings, Dukes, and Earls of Bretagne, 'till that Dukedom was united to the Crown of France … By John Lewis, Esq.; Barrester at Law. Now first published from his Original Manuscript To which is added, The Breviary of Britayne, written in Latin by Humfrey Lhuyd, of Denbigh … and lately Englished by Thomas Twine. … The book was no doubt written to defend the traditional history of
LEWIS, JOHN DAVID (1859 - 1914), bookseller, local historian, and founder of a printing press collection of Welsh ballads, which is now in the National Library of Wales. He also collaborated with the late John Davies (1860 - 1939) in writing the winning essay in the national eisteddfod held at Aberystwyth, 1916, 'Llenorion Sir Aberteifi, braslun o'u hanes a rhestr gyflawn o'u gweithiau cyhoeddedig rhwng 1600 a 1900'. (NLW MS 8705D). He married Hannah Lewis of Llandysul, and they had four sons. He
LEWIS, JOHN HUW (1931 - 2008), printer and publisher much of his time working on maps. Having completed his apprenticeship in the printing industry in London he returned to Llandysul to join the family business, Gwasg Gomer, also known as Gomer Press. The press - founded by his grandfather John David Lewis, in Market Stores, Llandysul, in 1892 - was now being run by J. D. Lewis's two sons: Rhys Lewis (Huw Lewis's father) and Edward Lewis. John Lewis

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