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LEE, ROWLAND (bu farw 1543), bishop of Coventry and Lichfield (which included at that time what later became the diocese of Chester) (1534-1543), and president of the Council in Wales and the Marches for the same period style of nomenclature and surnames; (on this, see Ellis, Original Letters, III, iii, 13). It used to be believed that it was at his recommendation that, in the time of Henry VIII, the division of Wales into shire ground was completed. Actually, Lee protested against the statute of 1536 which made the whole of Wales into shire-ground and gave it justices of the peace and gaol delivery as in England. In
teulu LESTRANGE Great Ness, Cheswardine, Knockin, JOHN LESTRANGE (died c. 1269) witnessed the treaty between Dafydd ap Gruffydd and Henry III in May 1240, was appointed in March 1241 to try Dafydd, and in January 1245 was a commissioner to make peace with him. HAWISE, daughter of this John Lestrange, married Gruffydd ap Gwenwynwyn. In the years 1244-5 John Lestrange wrote to Henry III telling of Gruffydd's support for the English cause; he aided
LEVI, THOMAS (1825 - 1916), Calvinistic Methodist minister, editor of Trysorfa y Plant, and author South Wales Association in 1887. He played a prominent part in the setting up of monuments to Daniel Rowland, Thomas Charles, Williams of Pantycelyn, and bishop Morgan. He continued to preach until 1910 and to edit Trysorfa y Plant until 1911. He was nearly 91 when he died 16 June 1916. A list of his original works and of his translations of hymns was prepared at the request of the N.L.W., and this
LEVI, THOMAS ARTHUR (1874 - 1954), professor of law Faculty of Law (inaugural lecture) (1901); Apêl at ddirwestwyr (1916); Legal education in Wales (1916); ' The laws of Hywel Dda in the light of Roman and Early English law ', Aberystwyth Studies (1928); ' The law department University College of Wales ', in Iwan Morgan, ed., The College by the Sea (1928); The Story of Public Administration and Social Service. Suggestions for the formation of a school of
teulu LEWIS Llwyn-du, Llangelynnin (Dolgelley) and became the mother of Rowland Ellis. OWEN HUMPHERY II (1629 - 1695? -christened 13 April 1629) became a very prominent Quaker, after having been a disciple of Morgan Llwyd; his name (with those of Owen Lewis II of Tyddyn-y-garreg (below), and others), appears in a letter written to Morgan Llwyd; he was brought before the magistrates in April 1654 for protesting against the Protector; with
teulu LEWIS Van, purchased the manor of Roath-Keynsham, part of the estate of Keynsham abbey, and was sheriff of Glamorgan in 1548, 1555, and 1559. His wife was Ann, daughter of Sir William Morgan, of Pencoyd, Monmouth, a member of the Tredegar family. THOMAS LEWIS Edward Lewis's son. He was sheriff of Glamorgan in 1569. His first wife was Margaret Gamage of Coity, at the time widow of Miles Mathew of Llandaff. He added
LEWIS of CAERLEON (fl. 1491), mathematician, theologian, doctor of medicine, and teacher at Oxford the Lancastrians. He was certainly high in the favour of Henry VII, for the Calendar of Patent Rolls records a grant to him for life of forty marks out of the revenues of Wiltshire, 24 February 1486, and a further grant of twenty marks for life, 27 November 1486, at the receipt of the Exchequer, when he is called ' the king's servant, Lewis Caerlion, doctor of medicine.' On 3 August 1488 he received
LEWIS, DAVID (1848 - 1897), lawyer ' The Welshman of English Literature,' in Cymm., 1882, and Red Dragon, 1886; ' The English Statutes relating to Wales,' in Wales 1894-5; ' The Court of the President and Council of Wales and the Marches 1478-1575,' in Cymm., 1897; ' Notes on the Charters of Neath Abbey,' in Archæologia Cambrensis, 1887; ' A Progress through Wales in the 17th century ' (i.e. of Henry, duke of Beaufort), in Cymm., 1883
LEWIS, DAVID (Baker, Charles; 1617 - 1679), Jesuit martyr Born at Abergavenny, son of the Rev. Morgan Lewis, first known headmaster of Abergavenny grammar school, and of Margaret Pritchard, niece to Fr. Augustine Baker, and herself a practising Roman Catholic. This fact, together with the number of recusant children attending the school and the interest taken in them by Fr. Baker, led to questions about Morgan Lewis in the Parliament of 1626; but he was
LEWIS, DAVID MORGAN (1851 - 1937), Congregational minister, afterwards professor of physics Born 27 September at Henllan, a small farm situated between Eglwyswrw and Felindre, north Pembrokeshire, the eldest of the five children of Evan Lewis (1813 - 1896), minister of the Congregational church at Brynberian, and his wife, Catherine Morgan, of the parish of Llan-gan, near Whitland, and a sister to William Morgan (1818 - 1884). He received his early education at Palmer's School, Cardigan
LEWIS, DAVID VIVIAN PENROSE (1st Baron Brecon), (1905 - 1976), politician his friend, Captain Geoffrey Crawshay. During the early 1950s, the Conservative government resisted the growing pressure for the establishment of the post of Secretary of State for Wales. Churchill created a post of Minister for Welsh Affairs to be held by the post of Home Secretary. Macmillan altered this arrangement in January 1957 when he appointed Henry Brooke as Minister for Housing and Local
LEWIS, FRANCIS (1713 - 1802), one of the signatories of the American Declaration of Independence Julia Delafield (his great-granddaughter), in her Biographies of Francis Lewis and Morgan Lewis (New York, 1877) speaks of him as being born at Llandaff, the son of the 'Rector of the Parish,' his mother being 'the daughter of the Rev. Dr. Pettingal, also a clergyman of the Established Church and settled at Carnarvon.' The Dictionary of American Biography, on evidence supplied by one of his

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