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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
LEWIS, TIMOTHY RICHARDS (1841 - 1886), surgeon, pathologist, and pioneer in tropical medicine ' Filaria sanguinis hominis,' after he had observed it in the blood of one of his patients in 1872. This was the helminth named ' Filaria bancrofti ' in 1877, but now named ' Wuchereria bancrofti.' In 1877 he discovered a flagellate in the blood of rats which bears his name - ' Trypanosoma lewisi.' With the appointment of David Cunningham to the chair of physiology in the Calcutta Medical College in 1879
LEWIS, WILLIAM BEVAN (1847 - 1929), alienist , he was connected with what has now become the University of Leeds, and latterly was professor of mental diseases there. He died 14 October 1929.
LEWIS, Sir WILLIAM THOMAS (first BARON MERTHYR of SENGHENYDD), (1837 - 1914), coal magnate ) carried on his work, and later (with her son WILLIAM THOMAS) initiated the sale of Welsh steam coal in London. William Thomas opened the Llety-Shenkin colliery in 1843, and his brother-in-law, William Rees, afterwards took it over. W. T. Lewis now, in addition to managing the Bute pits at Treherbert, launched out on his own account; between 1870 and 1880 he acquired control of the pits (later known as
LHUYD, EDWARD (1660 - 1709), botanist, geologist, antiquary, and philologist was botany. It is probable that in 1689 he accompanied Dr. Plot and helped him with his investigations for a survey of the coastline of Kent. In 1690-1 he was appointed keeper of the Ashmolean Museum in succession to Dr. Plot. Although he continued to search for plant specimens, there was a change in his interests: hitherto he had concentrated on botany, but now he began to devote himself more and
LIVSEY, GEORGE FREDERICK (1834 - 1923), bandmaster industrial landscape. One of the very few brass band contests the band entered was the great Crystal Palace national contest of 1860, which it won playing a clever arrangement of the overture to Verdi's opera Nabucco. This made the band famous and (though it was hardly deserved) elevated Crawshay's reputation as a man of both culture and benevolence. In June 1863 Ralph Livsey died. By now he was a local
LLEWELLYN, THOMAS (1720? - 1783), Baptist minister and tutor , and several nephews and nieces. There is now new information on the parentage and family of Dr Thomas Llewellyn. It appears from the will of Lewelin Jenkin of Gelligaer parish (buried 30 December 1729) that Thomas Llewelyn and Mary were his children by his second wife Anne Lewis James. She died while Thomas was under 10 years of age as a guardian, James Lewis, had been appointed. Lewelin's first
LLEWELYN, SION (1690 - 1776), poet edition is Difyrrwch diniwaid … sef deunaw o Ganiadau … Gyd a Now o Hymnau duwiol. He was received as a member at the age of 18 into the old Nonconformist chapel of Cwm-y-glo, on the mountain-side between Merthyr and Aberdare by Roger Williams (1667 - 1730), the pastor. This pastor was an Arminian. Ultimately the Arminian members under their minister, Richard Rees, built a new chapel, the Hen Dŷ Cwrdd
LLEWELYN, THOMAS DAVID (Llewelyn Alaw; 1828 - 1879), musician lord Aberdare. In Gardd Aberdâr there is an essay by him on the history of Aberdare. At the Llangollen national eisteddfod, 1858, he won the prize for the best collection of unpublished Welsh airs, this collection is now in the N.L.W. He was considered an excellent harpist, and a very good instructor; he also won several eisteddfod prizes. He died 13 August 1879, and was buried in the Hên Dŷ Cwrdd
teulu LLOYD Dolobran, . The heir, CHARLES EXTON LLOYD (1726 - 1773), died unmarried, in France, and his brother, JAMES LLOYD (1740 - 1787), who also died unmarried, sold the estate. The main line was now represented by the descendants of Sampson Lloyd, second son of Charles Lloyd (II). This is not the place to follow their interesting contacts with religious, humanitarian, and mercantile movements in Birmingham and London

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