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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
LLEWELLYN, Sir DAVID RICHARD (1879 - 1940), coalowner
LLEWELLYN, DAVID TREHARNE (1916 - 1992), Conservative politician David Llewellyn was born at Aberdare on 17 January 1916, the son of Sir David Richard Llewellyn, 1st Bart., a coalowner and industrialist, and Magdalene Anne (she died in 1966), the daughter of the Reverend Dr Henry Harries, Baptist minister of Treherbert. There were four brothers and four sisters. His brother was Sir Harry Llewellyn, the famous horseman, captain of the British Olympic
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
teulu LLOYD Maesyfelin, . Bridget, daughter of Richard Leigh, mayor of Carmarthen in 1666, was the mother of the three children of Francis Lloyd (two sons, Lucius and Charles, and a daughter, Frances). Bridget married after Francis died (and not later than 1676) one John Farrington. Francis Lloyd was M.P. for Carmarthen from 9 March 1640 until he was 'disabled' from sitting, 5 February 1644. An active Royalist like his father

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