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LEWIS, MORGAN JOHN (c. 1711 - 1771), Methodist exhorter and hymn-writer Born c. 1711, a native of Cwm Ebwy-fawr, Aberystruth, Monmouthshire. He was converted under the ministry of Howel Harris, c. 1738, and is said to have seceded from the communion of the Church of England when Daniel Rowland was forbidden to preach in Aberystruth church. He began to write hymns, and comes to our notice as one of the early hymn-writers of the Methodist revival. A hymn written by
LEWIS, MOSES (fl. 1748-1800), Methodist exhorter, afterwards an Antinomian son of Arthur Lewis of Fron, Brymbo, Denbighshire. He was one of the founders of the church in Adwy'r Clawdd and it was to his house that Peter Williams fled after his persecution in 1748. He began to exhort c. 1750. In 1751 he adhered to the party of Howel Harris, but soon repudiated him and refused to join his 'Family' at Trevecka. He became an Antinomian and established a small following in
LEWIS, THOMAS (1671? - 1735), Baptist minister Born c. 1671, son and heir of John Lewis, landed gentleman and Baptist of Glascwm, Radnorshire, who had experienced persecution under the Restoration. The son, like his father, became a member of the Baptist church at Leominster c. 1692 or at least before 1694, and he is believed to have started to preach soon afterwards. He had left Leominster before 1707 and had incorpoiated the Baptists of
LEWIS, THOMAS (1868 - 1953), Principal of Brecon Memorial College repetition. He made a strong impression on all who attended his informal services in the college. Amongst all the teachers at Brecon College in his period he was the one who could best be described as a 'gentleman'. He published Llyfr y proffwyd Amos (in the series Llawlyfrau'r Ysgol Sul, 1909), Y Proffwydi a chrefydd yr Iddewon (c. 1914 in the Old Testament series), Llenyddiaeth a diwinyddiaeth y
LEWIS, WILLIAM (fl. 1786-1794), hymn-writer cymmwys a pherthynol i Addoliad Cyhoeddus (Trevecka, 1786); a 2nd., revised, edition was printed by Peter Evans of Caernarvon 'for Hugh Jones,' early in the 19th century, under the title, Y Durtur, sef Ychydig o Hymnau, ar Amryw Destynau Efengylaidd. Both of these books include his celebrated hymn, ' Cof am y cyfiawn Iesu.' He is thought to have died c. 1794, but his Hymnau Newyddion (Carmarthen) was
LEWIS, WILLIAM MORTIMER (1840 - 1880), Baptist college principal Born July 1840 at Mydrim, Carmarthenshire. He received his early education at the village school and under Alcwyn C. Evans at Carmarthen. When he was 13 years of age he was apprenticed to a draper in Carmarthen for five years, during which time he adopted Baptist principles. He entered Carmarthen Presbyterian College in 1860, and after four years there, went to Glasgow University. In 1870 he
LEWIS, Sir WILLIAM THOMAS (first BARON MERTHYR of SENGHENYDD), (1837 - 1914), coal magnate sons and six daughters, one of whom married C. A. H. Green, later archbishop. He died 27 August 1914.
LEWYS ap HYWEL (fl. c. 1560-1600), poet
LLEWELLYN, THOMAS (1720? - 1783), Baptist minister and tutor Born at Penalltau-isaf, Gelligaer, c. 1720, son of Evan Llewellyn and descended, it is said, from Tomas Llywelyn of Rhigos. After following the trade of tailor in the Castleton district, he was baptized in 1738, and underwent a course of training for the Baptist ministry, first at Trosnant (Pontypool) in 1740, then at Bristol in 1741, and finally in London in 1742, but although he was ordained at
LLEWELYN, WILLIAM (1735 - 1803), Independent minister ordained (31 August 1763) pastor at Hereford, but left there abruptly in 1763. The various accounts of his career during the following years cannot be reconciled: according to Hanes Eglwysi Annibynnol Cymru (ii, 527-8; iv, 347), he was pastor of Maesyronnen (Radnorshire) 1766-7, and Beilihalog (Gwenddwr, Brecknock) 1766 - 7 - 1773; and it is also said that he was pastor of Garn (Radnorshire) from c. 1760
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, LLOYD (died 1711), of Plasyndre, Bala (brother of the JOHN LLOYD of Rhiwaedog who died in 1724), and of his descendants, to the main branch of the family. This main branch ended in the first half of the 19th century with the deaths, in each case without issue, of (a) WILLIAM LLOYD DOLBEN, who was succeeded by two cousins, (b) MARTHA ILES (died 1825), and (c) her sister ANN SOPHIA MARIA ILES; the

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