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LEWIS, Sir THOMAS (1881 - 1945), physician , two girls and a boy. He died at Rickmansworth, 17 March 1945 and was buried in the churchyard of Llangasty, Tal-y-llyn, Brecknock.
LEWIS, Sir THOMAS FRANKLAND (1780 - 1855), politician between 25 October and 13 December, and presented a report on 6 March 1844. Lewis was created a baronet on 27 June 1846. He re-entered parliament as member for Radnor boroughs in 1847, and held the seat till his death at Harpton Court on 22 January 1855. He was an accomplished administrator, but lacked the brilliance of his distinguished son.
LEWIS, TITUS (1822 - 1887), antiquary Born March 1822. He was a native of Llanelly. Throughout his life he was engaged in commerce, and served as a representative of Watts and Company, Manchester warehousemen, for over thirty years. He came to reside at S. Quentin's, Llanblethian, near Cowbridge, and acquired much local repute as an antiquary and an authority on Welsh literature; he was elected F.S.A. He also wrote English verse. His
LEWIS, Sir WILFRID HUBERT POYER (1881 - 1950), judge . He married (1), in 1908, Margaret Annie (died 1932), daughter of Sir John Eldon Bankes of Soughton Hall, Northop, Flintshire, and in 1934 (2), Elizabeth, daughter of Dr. David Barty King of London. He died 15 March 1950.
LEWIS, WYNDHAM (1780 - 1838), M.P. Born 7 Oct 1780, son of the Rev. Wyndham Lewis, Greenmeadow, Tongwynlais, Glamorganshire. He was M.P. for Cardiff, 1820-26; Aldeburgh (Suffolk), 1827-30; and Maidstone from 1835 until his death 14 March 1838. His widow, in 1839, became the wife of Benjamin Disraeli.
LHUYD, EDWARD (1660 - 1709), botanist, geologist, antiquary, and philologist by writing valuable notes on the Welsh counties. He was already busy with plans and preparations for a comprehensive work on the antiquities of Wales, somewhat on the same lines as Dr. Plot's Natural History of Staffordshire (1686), but before fully embarking upon it he revised his catalogue of British fossils. This catalogue was ready for the press by the middle of March 1697, but the university
LLEISION ap THOMAS (fl. 1513-1541), last abbot of Neath and a man of great influence in Glamorgan in the days of king Henry VIII. In 1513 (the earliest record we have of him unless he was the Dom Lyson Thomas who was ordained deacon at Ledbury by the bishop of Hereford, 24 March 1509) he was one of the commission of the peace appointed to assemble at Cardiff - a position he occupied again in 1534. In 1532 he played an important part in dealing with
LLEWELLYN, Sir DAVID RICHARD (1879 - 1940), coalowner Born 9 March 1879 at Aberdare, Glamorganshire, the eldest son of Rees and Elizabeth (née Llewellyn) Llewellyn, Bwllfa House : his father was general manager of the Bwllfa & Merthyr Dare Collieries, a post afterwards held by his son, William Morgan Llewellyn. D.R. Llewellyn was educated at Aberdare and Llandovery College before following a course in mining engineering at University College
LLEWELLYN, THOMAS (1720? - 1783), Baptist minister and tutor Tracts, Historical and Critical) which inspired the S.P.C.K. to publish 20,000 copies (8,000 more than originally intended) of the Welsh Bible of 1769, and with the same object in view he joined the ' Book Society for promoting Religious Knowledge among the Poor ' on 2 March 1768, and prepared for them a list of congregations of all denominations in South Wales and Monmouthshire, to whom free copies of
LLEWELYN, DESMOND WILKINSON (1914 - 1999), actor service was held in March 2000 in St Paul's Church in Knightsbridge, where tributes were paid by Sir Roger Moore and Sir Christopher Lee. Although Llewelyn gained worldwide fame through his role in the seventeen Bond films he completed, his time on screen in them actually adds up to less than an hour in total. He was, though, a great fan favourite, and often was considered to 'steal' the scenes he is in
LLEWELYN, MARY PENDRILL (1811 - 1874), translator and writer Born 12 March 1811 at Cowbridge, Glamorganshire; she became the wife of the Rev. R. Pendrill Llewelyn, vicar of Llangynwyd, near Maes-teg, Glamorganshire. Both she and her husband were greatly interested in Welsh literature, and many stanzas of her own composition appeared in The Cambrian and Merthyr Guardian; she published in 1850 a translated collection of Welsh hymns, mainly those of William
LLEWELYN, WILLIAM (1735 - 1803), Independent minister Born at Coity, Glamorganshire, in 1735 (christened 21 March in the parish church), eldest of the four children of a shoemaker Thomas Llewelyn and his wife Alice (Cox, of Gloucestershire), members of the congregation of Lewis Jones (1702? - 1772) at Bridgend. Apprenticed to a brewer in the town, he attended a night-school and began to preach; in January 1759 he went to Abergavenny Academy. He was

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