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LEWIS, HUGH (1562 - 1634), cleric, author, poet His forbears were bondsmen of the township of Bodellog near Caernarvon. His great-grandfather was known as William of Bodellog whose son William ap William married Margaret Bennett and had three sons - Ieuan, Rhys, and Lewis. This Lewis married Agnes, daughter of William Foxwist of Prysgol, a member of the lower gentry. Of this marriage four sons were born - Hugh, Griffith, Richard and John. Hugh
LEWIS, HYWEL DAVID (1910 - 1992), university professor and philosopher his ashes were laid in the family grave on the Great Orme in Llandudno. Two memorial services were held; one at Twrgwyn Chapel in Bangor when tributes were paid by the Rev. Principal Elfed ap Nefydd Roberts, Mr. Moses J. Jones and Dr. Meredydd Evans. The second service was held at the chapel of King's College in London with Professor Stewart R. Sutherland giving the tribute. A Festschrift Religion
LEWIS, Sir JOHN HERBERT (1858 - 1933), lawyer and politician Born 27 December 1858 at Mostyn Quay, Flintshire, only son of Enoch Lewis (great-nephew of Thomas Jones (1756 - 1820) of Denbigh) and of Catherine Roberts, Plas Llangwyfan, Denbighshire. He was educated at Denbigh, Montreal (McGill University), and Exeter College Oxford [ B.A. 1879, M.A. 1884 ], and travelled widely. A lawyer by profession, he became in 1889 first chairman of the Flintshire
LEWIS, Sir WILFRID HUBERT POYER (1881 - 1950), judge Born 9 February 1881 in London, son of Arthur Griffith Poyer Lewis, barrister-at-law, of Henllan, near Narberth, Pembrokeshire, and Annie Wilhelmine, his wife, and grandson of Richard Lewis, Bishop of Llandaff from 1883 to 1905. He was educated at Eton and University College, Oxford, where he graduated in history in 1903. He was called to the Bar by the Inner Temple in 1908 and served in the
LEWIS, WILLIAM (1814 - 1891), Calvinistic Methodist missionary and linguist Born at Manchester, of Welsh parents, he set his mind on serving the China Mission under the London Missionary Society. In 1839 he entered the Bala C.M. College. In 1842 was ordained for the newly opened mission field of the Welsh Calvinistic Methodists in India. M. to Mary Roberts, of Towyn, Meironnydd, he arrived on the Khasia Hills in January 1843; he baptised his first converts in 1846. He
teulu LLOYD Dolobran, Tewdwr Mawr. Gwenllian, daughter of Adam ap Meyrick ap Pasgen, is also given as the wife of Celynin, and of his son, EINION. This Adam ap Meyrick may have been the sinecure rector of Meifod, c. 1265. Einion was living in 1340. LLEWELYN AB EINION is named in a pardon granted by Edward de Cherleton, lord of Powys, to his grandson, Griffith ap Jenkin ap Llewelyn, in 1419, for his complicity in the war of
teulu LLOYD Rhiwaedog, Rhiwedog, extended at Rhiwaedog to itinerating bards (clerwyr), particularly during the 16th and 17th century. Griffith Roberts (Gwrtheyrn, 1845 - 1915), Bala, gives (in two of his manuscripts, now NLW MS 7411C, NLW MS 7421B) the names of many bards who wrote poems to various members of the Rhiwaedog family and who visited the house. Amongst them are Gruffudd Hiraethog, Siôn Ceri, Bedo Hafhesp, Siôn Mawddwy, Siôn
LLOYD, DAVID MYRDDIN (1909 - 1981), librarian and Welsh scholar , Williams Pantycelyn in particular, Kate Roberts, an edition of Atgofion am Sirhowy a'r Cylch (Myfyr Wyn, 1961). But the work that best revealed Myrddin Lloyd's mature interests and the breadth of his learning was the three volumes of selections of Emrys ap Iwan's articles and letters (1937, 1939, 1940) and his monograph in the Writers of Wales series in 1979. These are possibly Myrddin Lloyd's most
LLOYD, DAVID TECWYN (1914 - 1992), literary critic, author, educationalist had grown tired of all the political arguments and he had become disillusioned with the institution. He turned from adult education to a completely different field, to journalism and publishing, and joined the publishing firm, Hughes and Son, of Wrexham. He was deputy editor of the weekly newspaper Y Cymro (the editor was his friend since college days, John Roberts Williams) and Editorial Manager of
LLOYD, GRIFFITH RICHARD MAETHLU (1902 - 1995), college principal and minsister (B) Griffith Richard Maethlu Lloyd was born on 25 January 1902 in Holyhead, the elder son of the Reverend David Lloyd, Baptist minister, and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Griffith Williams, Hensiop, Llanfaethlu, Anglesey. He was brought up in his grandfather's home. His brother was named David. Griffith Lloyd was educated in Ffrwd Win Primary School, Llanfaethlu, and as a boarder in Taunton School
LLOYD, HUMPHREY (1610 - 1689), bishop of Bangor Lewis Bayly from the title page of the 1675 Welsh edition of the Practice of Piety, and that Lloyd himself wrote the author's name on the copies to be distributed in the Bangor neighbourhood. He married Jane, daughter of John Griffith the younger of Cefnamwlch and widow of Owen Brereton of Borras. By her he had three sons, John, Francis, and Richard. He died 18 January 1689, and was buried in Bangor
LLOYD, JOHN (1833 - 1915), political reformer and antiquary college without graduating and for a while managed the family estate; in 1865 he was made J.P., and in the same year married a great-granddaughter of David Griffith (1726 - 1816); he was then a notable sportsman. In 1877, however, he was called to the Bar and settled in London, where he engaged in much public activity. He became secretary of the 'London Municipal Reform Association,' whose struggle with

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