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LEWIS, BENJAMIN WALDO (1877 - 1953), Baptist minister responsible for all the work of the Society on the island. He died at his home at Briarleigh, Longacre Road on 31 December 1953, after a long illness which followed an accident at Borth the previous September. He was buried at Carmarthen public cemetery on 4 January 1954. He was married on 14 June 1922 at Zion English Presbyterian church, Carmarthen to Enid Mari Wheldon (born 14 March 1892), a native of
LEWIS, DAVID (Baker, Charles; 1617 - 1679), Jesuit martyr until the Popish Plot scare of 1678, when under pressure from the local M.P., John Arnold of Llanfihangel Crucornau), and others, he was arrested on his way to mass, 17 November, imprisoned successively at Abergavenny, Monmouth, and Usk, and tried at the Monmouth Assizes at Usk (28 March 1679) under an act of 27 Elizabeth, on the sole charge of being a priest in foreign orders. An account of the trial
LEWIS, DAVID (1760 - 1850), cleric instituted to the benefice of Aber-nant, Carmarthenshire, and in March 1787 to the perpetual curacy of Cynwyl Elfed. He served these parishes till his death on 28 July 1850. In addition, he was from 1794 to 1850 rector of Garthbeibio, Montgomeryshire. He was buried at Aber-nant. Lewis was a J.P. for the county of Carmarthen, and auditor of the Christian Knowledge and Church Union Society, founded by bishop
LEWIS, DAVID EMRYS (1887 - 1954), poet and journalist his pryddest ' Mynachlog Nedd '. His wife, Margaret, was from Machynlleth and they had two sons. He suffered a grievous illness during his last years and died at Gendros, Swansea, 12 March 1954 aged 67.
LEWIS, DAVID JOHN (Lewis Tymbl; 1879 - 1947), Congl. minister, popular preacher and lecturer was taken ill in December 1946 and he underwent surgery in Cardiff. He was not allowed to preach subsequently and he died 10 March 1947 in Morriston hospital. He was interred in Crymych cemetery on Sunday 16 March after the biggest snowstorm within living memory had prevented the funeral taking place the previous day. A memorial booklet was published.
LEWIS, EVAN (1818 - 1901), dean of Bangor , and proceeded D.D. in 1826; after serving in various London parishes he kept a grammar school at Twickenham, where he died 4 January 1859 (Glan Menai, Enwogion Sir Aberteifi). Evan Lewis of Llanilar's elder son was DAVID LEWIS (1814 - 1915), cleric, afterwards Roman Catholic. He went up to Jesus College, Oxford, in March 1834, at 19, graduated in 1837, became Fellow (1839-46) of his college, was
LEWIS, FRANCIS (1713 - 1802), one of the signatories of the American Declaration of Independence descendants, gives his date of birth as 21 March, and states that he was 'the only child of the Rev. Francis Lewis, rector of Llandaff, Glamorganshire, Wales, and Amy Pettingal of Caernarvon.' The 'Parish' of Llandaff is an obvious error, and no Dr. Pettingal is known as vicar of Llanbeblig, the parish within which the borough of Caernarvon was then situated. An alderman Francis Pettingale of Newport
LEWIS, HUBERT (1825 - 1884), jurist . Lewis died in retirement, at Margate, 6 March 1884.
LEWIS, JOHN (GOMER) (1844? - 1914), Baptist minister and orator . New Salem was built, and by 1878 had admitted over 1,100 members. In March 1878 he went to Belle Vue, Swansea, and after the opening of Capel Gomer in March 1891 added the name 'Gomer' to his own. He was regarded by the poor as a great philanthropist, was celebrated as a preacher, and had no rival as a lecturer. In 1898 he was chairman of the Union of Welsh Baptists, the subject of his address on
LEWIS, LEWIS (Lewsyn yr Heliwr, Lewsyn Shanco Lewis; 1793 - ?), haulier and revolutionary He was christened on 21 March 1793, the son of Jenkin and Margaret Lewis of Blaencadlan in the parish of Penderyn, Brecknock; his father was a butcher. The son was a haulier by occupation - hence his appellation 'yr Heliwr' and he was engaged in carting coal from the pits at Llwydcoed to the limekilns at Penderyn. In the Merthyr Tydfil riots of 1831 he took a leading part, on 2 June, in the
LEWIS, LEWIS WILLIAM (Llew Llwyfo; 1831 - 1901), poet, novelist, and journalist Born 31 March 1831 in the village of Pen-sarn, Llanwenllwyfo, Anglesey. As a boy he worked in the Parys copper mines near Amlwch, and was later apprenticed to a Bangor draper. He then opened his own shop at Tal-sarn and after that a school in the same place. In 1852 he was sub-editor of Y Cymro (Holywell). In 1855 he went to Liverpool to edit the Amserau, in 1858 to Aberdare as editor of the
LEWIS, RICHARD (1817 - 1865), pharmacist and author Anglesey, and had a volume of verse published under the title Y Rhosyn. He died 2 March 1865.

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