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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.
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

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