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LEWIS, IDRIS (1889 - 1952), musician for that company (1931-35) he was responsible for arranging music for a number of well-known films, Blossom Time ' being among them, with Richard Tauber as soloist. One of those impressed by that film was Sam Jones, who was at the time producer of Welsh programmes with the B.B.C., and after realising that Idris Lewis was a Welshman he succeeded in persuading him to join the B.B.C. in Cardiff, where
LEWIS, JOHN (fl. 1646-1656) Glasgrug,, Puritan author appeared in 1646 under the title Contemplations upon these Times. In his correspondence with Richard Baxter and Dr. John Ellis (died 1665), Dolgelley, he advocated the setting up of a national college in Wales for training ministers. In 1656 he published Some Seasonable and Modest Thoughts. In the same year he was made a J.P. for the county of Cardigan.
LEWIS, JOHN (bu farw 1616?) Llynwene, Llanfihangel Nant Melan, barrister, and author of The History of Britain Born in the parish of Pencraig (Old Radnor), son of Hugh Lewis and Sibyl, daughter of Roger ap Watcyn Fychan, Hergest. W. Rowlands (Llyfryddiaeth, see under 1729) connects him, in error, with Maenor Owen, Pembrokeshire, and describes him as a great-grandfather of Richard Fenton, the Pembrokeshire historian. It is unlikely that he is the John Lewis who entered Lincoln's Inn, 28 February 1562-3
LEWIS, JOSHUA (1816 - 1879), Independent minister Born at Neuadd-fach, Llanybydder, Carmarthenshire, son of Timothy Lewis, a tailor who was a Baptist of Aberduar church - Joshua Lewis was thus uncle to Timothy Richard. He went to a school kept at Rhyd-y-bont chapel by William Jones (later of Swansea), and there became attached to the Independents. At 16 he opened a school at Gwernogle, but soon became assistant in a school at Tre-lech, kept by
LEWIS, LEWIS (Lewsyn yr Heliwr, Lewsyn Shanco Lewis; 1793 - ?), haulier and revolutionary at Swansea), but mainly because of his reprieve. This has variously been attributed to the influence of persons of consequence, generally on account of services in the hunting field, or to his having been the illegitimate son of one of the gentry. The fact that, although found guilty of felony, the charge against him was much less serious than that against Richard Lewis ('Dic Penderyn
LEWIS, RICHARD (Dic Penderyn; 1807/8 - 1831), miner and revolutionary martyr
LEWIS, RICHARD (1817 - 1865), pharmacist and author
LEWIS, RICHARD MORRIS (1847 - 1918), scholar and littérateur
LEWIS, THOMAS (1823 - 1900), Baptist minister, and historical writer Pontypool. He was a minister at Llanddewi Rhydderch, 1848-56; Lanelli, Brecknock, 1856-9; Jerusalem, Rhymney, 1860-3; Penuel, Carmarthen, 1863-74; Moriah, Risca, 1874-80. He retired to Newport, Monmouth. He published Cofiant … Titus Lewis, Carmarthen; Cofiant … James Richard, Pontypridd; Ymddygiad y Feibl Gymdeithas Frytanaidd a Thramor at y Bedyddwyr; and Esboniad y Teulu. His Hunangofiant appeared in
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
LHUYD, EDWARD (1660 - 1709), botanist, geologist, antiquary, and philologist more to stones and fossils. In the spring of 1691 he accompanied two Danish geologists, Seerup and Hemmer, on a nine-day excursion to Salisbury, Bath, and Bristol. He sought to establish a 'Geological Club,' and carried on a steady correspondence with John Woodward, William Nicholson, and Richard Richardson. He thought of travelling abroad in order to extend his researches, and at one time he planned
LINDEN, DIEDERICH WESSEL (bu farw 1769), medical doctor and mineralogist into debt that he was committed to Fleet Prison on 20 January 1747 for a little over a month. By the spring of that year, he had quitted London for Wales. By the second half of 1747, Linden had drawn up leases with the goldsmith Richard Richardson, Chester, and John Williams, Holywell, to develop mines at Caerwys and Prestatyn. As a result, he relocated to Holywell. It is around this time that Linden

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