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LEWIS, EVAN (1818 - 1901), dean of Bangor company of men like Morris Williams (Nicander), Griffith Arthur Jones, and Philip Constable Ellis (all three separately noticed), he strove vigorously and successfully to propagate the principles and practices of the Oxford Movement in his diocese. At Llanllechid, he swept away the old custom of substituting contemporary hymns for the ' Te Deum ' and the ' Magnificat '; he insisted on chants and upon
LEWIS, GEORGE (c. 1640? - 1709?), cleric and author September 1709. A translation of An earnest exhortation to Householders, by Robert Nelson, attributed to him by Moses Williams, was published in London in 1704.
LEWIS, GEORGE (1763 - 1822), theologian and Independent minister Academy he received a call from the Independent church at Caernarvon and remained in that circuit, a highly successful minister, for nine years. Before leaving the district he had toyed with the idea of emigrating to the U.S.A., and entered into correspondence with Dr. Edward Williams (1750 - 1813), of Carr's Lane, Birmingham, on the subject. However, he received a call from the Independent church at
LEWIS, GRUFFYDD THOMAS (1873 - 1964), schoolmaster and a leading layman in the Presbyterian Church of Wales , founder of the drapery firm of Harries of Oxford Street, London. She managed the small farm of Pil-rhoth, thus allowing her husband to continue his itinerant preaching. He died in 1896, aged 66, and she, who was of the same family as William Williams, M.P., died at an advanced age in 1933. The son was named Gruffydd Thomas after an elder of that name, his father's bosom friend of Aberystwyth days. G
LEWIS, HOWELL ELVET (ELFED; 1860 - 1953), Independent minister, hymn-writer, poet known as the 'boy-preacher'. Whilst there he met E. Keri Evans who introduced him to the Welsh strict metres, cynghanedd, and E. Griffith Jones who introduced him to English literature. He took interest also in the local publication Y Byd Cymreig which was in the care of the Rev. John Williams. He started to compete under the pen-name of 'Coromandel'. Two years later he passed the entrance examination
LEWIS, IDRIS (1889 - 1952), musician (1945) which was translated into Welsh by Enid Parry. His brother was D.H. Lewis, Llanelli, author of Cofiant J.T. Rees, and also of a number of articles on Welsh musicians which were published in Y Genhinen and other periodicals.
LEWIS, IVOR (1895 - 1982), consultant surgeon preclinical studies at University College, Cardiff he undertook his clinical training at University College Hospital, London. There he was awarded the Lister Gold Medal in surgery before graduating MB BS in 1921, having obtained the MRCS LRCP in the previous year. After graduation, fortunate to fall under the influence of such celebrated practitioners as Wilfred Trotter and Gwynne Williams, Lewis decided to
LEWIS, JENKIN (1760 - 1831), Independent minister and tutor he finished his course there, he was acting as assistant to the tutor, Benjamin Davies. He removed, along with the Academy, to Oswestry, as assistant to Edward Williams (1750 - 1813), but in November 1784, accepted a pastorate at Wrexham. When Edward Williams (in 1791) went from Oswestry, Lewis was urged to take his place, and as he declined to leave Wrexham, the Academy was removed (1792) from
LEWIS, JOHN HUW (1931 - 2008), printer and publisher served for many years. He was very much a family man. He married Vera Williams, who hailed from Tregaron, in 1956 and they had two daughters: Nerys and Rhian. He was immensely proud of his family and doted on his five grandchildren taking great pride in their success. Huw Lewis was a proud Welshman, a Cardi through and through and a much respected benefactor whose contribution within the local
LEWIS, JOHN SAUNDERS (1893 - 1985), politician, critic and dramatist , Cumberland, on 31 July 1924, and they had one daughter, Mair, born in 1926. In Swansea he began his literary and critical work in earnest. As well as his first Welsh-language play, Gwaed yr Uchelwyr (1922), he wrote the pamphlet An Introduction to Contemporary Welsh Literature (1926) and the pioneering Freudian study Williams Pantycelyn (1927), in which he argued that Wales's foremost hymn-writer could
LEWIS, JOSEPH RHYS (Alaw Rhondda; 1860 - 1920), musician Born at Penderyn, Brecknock, 15 June 1860. As he was a delicate child he received very little education. He became interested in music when he was young, learned to play the piano, and, in due course, attended music classes conducted by Dr. Joseph Parry and Dr. Evans at Cardiff. He became organist of Penuel chapel, Ferndale, and, afterwards, of Bethania chapel, Maerdy. Among his hymntunes was
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

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