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JONES, WILLIAM (1806 - 1873), cleric and man of letters scheme for a Baptist Academy in North Wales, but was ill-supported by his fellow- Baptists - later on, influential Baptists like R. D. Roberts of Llwynhendy averred that this lukewarmness had been a serious mistake. However, Jones kept on writing in defence of his scheme and travelling to collect money for it. On such a journey, he visited Cardigan, where the minister of Bethania church, John Herring
KELSALL, JOHN (fl. 1683-1743), Quaker diarist years), but are complete from then on to May 1743. They are an invaluable source for the chequered history of the Lloyd fortunes, for that of the North Wales iron industry, and for that of Quakerism in Wales during that period. Edward Griffith printed excerpts in Wales (O.M.E.), ii - see also Caernarvonshire Historical Society Transactions, 1940, 75-6. Kelsall published a book, The Faithful Monitor
KOTSCHNIG, ELINED PRYS (1895 - 1983), psychoanalyst and pacifist over sixty years, she always had 'a permanent and deep "hiraeth [longing]", of which I hardly ever speak, because it hurts too much & is of no use anyway', she told Gwynn Jones in a confiding moment. At the same time, she felt that her gains from exile counterbalanced her losses, and did not want to change a thing. The appreciative remembrances of Lucille Eddinger and others such as Helen Griffith
teulu LANGFORD Allington, constableship of Ruthin castle to him and his son EDWARD, 1447. Richard Langford died 12 July 1466, two years after his wife, Alice, daughter and heiress of Howell ap Griffith ap Morgan of Hopedale, widow of John ap Richard Wettenhale. Their heir was the Edward Langford mentioned above. Henry VI granted him the offices of escheator and attorney of the lordship of Denbigh, for his personal service against
LEWIS GLYN COTHI (fl. 1447-1486), one of the greatest of the 15th century Welsh bards He took his bardic name from that of the forest of Glyn Cothi, within the confines of which, probably, he was born, perhaps at Pwllcynbyd in the parish of Llanybydder. Early in life he became an outlaw in North Wales in company with Owen ap Gruffudd ap Nicholas. This may have been as early as 1443. The earliest certainly datable of his poems is his elegy upon the death of Sir Griffith Vychan of
LEWIS, Sir ALFRED (EDWARD) (1868 - 1940), banker Provincial bank, of which Lewis became chief general manager in 1924 and deputy-chairman in 1934. He was knighted in 1921 (K.B.E. 1931), and was honorary LL.D. of Birmingham (1930) and of Wales (1935), and served on many public bodies, including the Council of the National Library of Wales. His wife (1897) was Mary Roberts, of Leeds. He died 21 February 1940. His brother, HUGH (DAVIES) LEWIS (1866 - 1937
LEWIS, DAVID (1828 - 1908), musician Born 12 November 1828 at Hen Dŷ Mawr, Llanrhystud, Cardiganshire, the son of Lewis and Margaret Lewis. The father was a good vocalist and it was he, together with Thomas Jenkins, the teacher of John Roberts (Ieuan Gwyllt), who gave the son his first lessons in music. When he was 15 he began to compose and to conduct singing classes. His first prize for a hymn-tune was won in a competition at
LEWIS, DAVID WILLIAM (1845 - 1920), musician Born 15 April 1845, at Brynaman, Carmarthenshire. He started work in a coalmine when he was only 9 years old. His first knowledge of music was derived from books published by Mills and Eleazar Roberts. In 1870 he went to Bristol to be examined in the tonic sol-fa notation, gained all the certificates that were possible, and qualified as F.T.S.C. - the first in Wales to gain that distinction. He
LEWIS, DAVID WYRE (1872 - 1966), minister and administrator (B) the New Wales Union (Undeb Cymru Fydd) he was from the beginning a member of the Council and several committees of the new body and later chairman and president. The University of Wales conferred on him an hon. D.D. in 1961, and many considered him to be the most important Baptist of the 20 c. in Wales. He married (1), 13 April 1904, Elizabeth Ellen Roberts (1896 - 1941), Holyhead; (2) 20 May 1946
LEWIS, EVAN (1818 - 1901), dean of Bangor company of men like Morris Williams (Nicander), Griffith Arthur Jones, and Philip Constable Ellis (all three separately noticed), he strove vigorously and successfully to propagate the principles and practices of the Oxford Movement in his diocese. At Llanllechid, he swept away the old custom of substituting contemporary hymns for the ' Te Deum ' and the ' Magnificat '; he insisted on chants and upon
LEWIS, Sir HENRY (1847 - 1923) North Wales, Calvinistic Methodist elder The son of THOMAS LEWIS (1821 - 1897), of Llanwenllwyfo, Anglesey (J. E. Griffith, Pedigrees, 257), founder (1840) of a flourishing corn and flour business at Bangor, who was M.P. for Anglesey 1886-94, following Richard Davies (1818 - 1896), and lectured so frequently on his travels in Palestine and elsewhere that he was universally known as 'Thomas Palestina Lewis' - he died 2 December 1897
LEWIS, HOWELL ELVET (ELFED; 1860 - 1953), Independent minister, hymn-writer, poet known as the 'boy-preacher'. Whilst there he met E. Keri Evans who introduced him to the Welsh strict metres, cynghanedd, and E. Griffith Jones who introduced him to English literature. He took interest also in the local publication Y Byd Cymreig which was in the care of the Rev. John Williams. He started to compete under the pen-name of 'Coromandel'. Two years later he passed the entrance examination

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