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LEWIS, Sir HENRY (1847 - 1923) North Wales, Calvinistic Methodist elder . Henry Lewis was born at Bangor 21 November 1847, and educated at Friars School there and at Bala C.M. college. He became a very important figure not only at Bangor but in North Wales, more especially among his coreligionists. He proved a most valuable supporter of the University College at Bangor, more particularly in the matter of securing a site for the new college buildings. In 1901 (with H. Barber
LEWIS, HENRY (1889 - 1968), Welsh and Celtic scholar, university professor Treorchy. There were 2 daughters of the marriage. It is difficult today to appreciate the difficulties facing the study of Welsh language and literature when Welsh degree courses were first established. Henry Lewis stands in the front rank of that handful of scholars who transformed the situation by editing essential texts, interpreting them and commentating on lexical, grammatical and syntactical
LEWIS, HENRY GETHIN (1872 - 1945), merchant and financier were published at Abergavenny in 1899 under the title of Redemption hire, deferred purchase, and easy payment tables; these were adopted as a standard by the Wagon Building and Financing Corporation. In 1911 he founded the firm of Henry G. Lewis and Co., Ltd., rolling-stock proprietors, and during World War I he supplied the Admiralty with wagons for coaling the Fleet. At the close of hostilities he
LEWIS, HUGH (1562 - 1634), cleric, author, poet and resided here until his death, which occurred before 6 November 1634, the date on which his successor as chancellor was instituted. By his marriage with Ellen vch Rhytherch he had two sons, Morgan ap Hugh Lewis and William ap Hugh Lewis. Ellen died in April 1634; she and her husband were buried in Llanwnda.
LEWIS, JANET ELLEN (1900 - 1979), novelist, poet and journalist on the editorial staff of the Daily News and the Sunday Times in the 1930s. In 1937 she married Graeme Hendrey; they had one daughter, Katrina, and the family moved to live in rural Surrey. She and her husband became friends with a number of literary figures, including Anglo-Welsh writers such as Ernest Rhys, Hilda Vaughan, and Charles Morgan. Later, in 1967, Lewis published an edited volume of the
LEWIS, JOHN SAUNDERS (1893 - 1985), politician, critic and dramatist properly be regarded as Europe's first Romantic. In Braslun o Hanes Llenyddiaeth Gymraeg Hyd 1536 (1932) he maintained that Henry VIII's Acts of Union and the Protestant Reformation had cut Wales off from its European tradition. He also contributed essays to W. J. Gruffydd's journal Y Llenor, including 'Dafydd Nanmor' (1923), which dealt with the concept of perchentyaeth (literally 'householdership
LEWIS, MORGAN JOHN (c. 1711 - 1771), Methodist exhorter and hymn-writer 'Morgan Jones o Flauneu gwent' will be found in Llwybur Hyffordd ir Cymru (Shrewsbury, 1740). He and Edmund Williams, of Cwm Tyleri, were the joint publishers of Hymnau Duwiol o Gasgliad Gwyr Eglwysig M.J. ac E.W. (Pontypool, 1741). Another hymn written by him will be found in Sail, Dibenion, a Rheolau'r Societies (Bristol), a booklet published by the Methodist Association in 1742. He began to preach to
LEWIS, RICHARD (Dic Penderyn; 1807/8 - 1831), miner and revolutionary martyr 1827, the Rev. Morgan Howells. There is no certain evidence of Dic Penderyn's movements until the outbreak of the Merthyr Tydfil riots of 1831. He was then a married man living at Merthyr, and was a miner by occupation. Rioting began on 2 June with an attack on the house of Joseph Coffin, clerk to the Court of Requests, and the destruction of his furniture (see Lewis Lewis, ' Lewsyn yr Heliwr
LEWIS, Sir THOMAS (1881 - 1945), physician Born 26 December 1881, third of five children of Henry Lewis, mining engineer of Tŷ-nant, Taff's Well, near Cardiff, and his wife. He was educated privately at Clifton College; University College, Cardiff; University College Hospital, London, and became a student demonstrator in anatomy and physiology at Cardiff. He took an Hons. B.Sc. (Wales) in 1902, and qualified in medicine in 1904, gaining
LEWIS, WILLIAM HOWELL (1793? - 1868), minister (Congl.) , Monmouth, 1847-50. After retiring, he went to live in Bristol; he was there from 1858 to 1865. In 1863 he presented several of the MSS. of Philip Henry to the Presbyterian College, Carmarthen, as well as a rare edition of Stephanus's Greek Testament. He wrote Memoirs of the Life and Labours of the Reverend David Peter; and died in 1868.
LLEISION ap MORGAN ap CARADOG ap IESTYN - gweler MORGAN ap CARADOG ap IESTYN
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

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