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LEWES, EVELYN ANNA (c. 1873 - 1961), author the last four centuries as justices of the peace, high sheriffs and members of parliament. She moved to Eithinfa, Cliff Terrace, Aberystwyth c. 1928. She died 4 March 1961 in hospital at Oswestry aged 87, and her ashes were buried in Trefilan, Cardiganshire. She was a woman of great character and personality. She began writing poems, articles and stories for publication in 1896 when a poem appeared
teulu LEWIS, printers and publishers translated The Poacher (J.O. Francis) and Jane Wogan (Florence Howell) into Welsh. She died 16 March 1960 and was buried in Pen-y-bont Baptist church cemetery.
LEWIS, Sir ALFRED (EDWARD) (1868 - 1940), banker ., formed to deal with the situation after the Japanese earthquake of 1923. A governor of the London School of Economics, he was sheriff of Anglesey in 1934-5. He took great interest in flying, and at 50 obtained his pilot's certificate. His wife (1891), Grace Mary Edmunds, was the daughter of William Edmunds (see Edmunds, Mary Anne), by his second marriage. He died at Birkenhead 8 March 1937.
LEWIS, ALUN (1915 - 1944), poet Inspection. He was commissioned in October 1941, and a year later proceeded to India. On 5 March 1944, a lieutenant with the 6th Batt. South Wales Borderers, he died on active service on the Arakan front. A second volume of poems, Ha, ha! Among the Trumpets, was published posthumously in 1945; a selection of his letters to his parents and wife, Letters from India was published in 1946; and the uncollected
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.

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