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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
LEWIS, JOHN SAUNDERS (1893 - 1985), politician, critic and dramatist probably the most famous lines he ever wrote. Wales is likened to a vineyard passed on as an inheritance from generation to generation but which is now threatened by a herd of swine. Emrys calls on his fellow Welshmen to withstand them: 'Sefwch gyda mi yn y bwlch, / Fel y cadwer i'r oesoedd a ddêl y glendid a fu' ('Stand with me in the breach, so that the splendour of the past may be preserved for the
LEWIS, OWEN (1533 - 1594), bishop of Cassano, Born 27 December 1533, son, according to Humphrey Humphreys (Wood, Athenae Oxoniensis, ed. Bliss, ii, col. 837 n.), of a free-holder living in the parish of Llanfeirian (now Llangadwaladr), Anglesey. He was educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford, of which he was elected a perpetual Fellow in 1554. He graduated B.C.L. 21 February 1558-9 but rather than conform to the new dispensation under
LEWIS, Sir THOMAS (1881 - 1945), physician awarded honorary degrees by the Universities of Wales, Liverpool, Sheffield, Birmingham and Michigan. He was a member or fellow of many foreign societies and universities. He became the first full-time clinical researcher for the Medical Research Committee (now Council) when the Department of Clinical Research was set up in 1916. A foremost research worker on the action of the human heart, he was one of

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