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LEWIS, OWEN (1533 - 1594), bishop of Cassano, Elizabeth I, left the University and fled to the Continent. He went to the newly founded university of Douai to get his doctorates in law and in divinity, and was appointed professor of ecclesiastical law. Shortly after this he was made a canon of Cambrai cathedral and later archdeacon of Hainault. He gave every help to Dr. William Allen, his friend from Oxford days, to establish, in 1568, the famous
LEWIS, PIERCE (1664 - 1699), cleric, and 'corrector' of the Welsh Bible of 1690 Born 11 April 1664, son of Pierce Lewis of Plas Llanfihangel Tre'r Beirdd, Anglesey, registrar of Bangor diocese, and his wife, Elizabeth Lloyd of Henblas, Llangristiolus. Entering Jesus College, Oxford, in 1681, he graduated in 1684, and seems to have remained at Oxford till 1690, to supervise the printing of the Bible, which is commonly associated with his kinsman bishop William Lloyd (1627
LEWIS, REES (Eos Ebrill; 1828 - 1880), schoolmaster and musician Born in 1828 at Twyn Cynordy, near Bryn-mawr, Brecknock, the son of William Lewis, who was precentor at Nebo chapel, Pen-y-cae. He received his first lessons in music from his father and from a musician from Pembrokeshire, who resided in the district. Entering the teaching profession, he spent two years at the Borough Road Training College, London, taught at Blaina, Monmouth, and afterwards at
LEWIS, RICHARD (Dic Penderyn; 1807/8 - 1831), miner and revolutionary martyr and charged with riotously assembling at Merthyr Tydfil and feloniously attacking and wounding Donald Black, of the 93rd Regiment, while in the execution of his duty. He was tried at Cardiff Assizes before Mr. Justice Bosanquet, and, on the evidence of James Abbott, hairdresser, and William Williams, tailor, both of Merthyr, was found guilty. He was, therefore, condemned to death, the execution
LEWIS, Lady RUTH (1871 - 1946), a pioneering collector of Welsh folk-songs, and advocate of educational, religious, temperance and philanthropic bodies Born 29 November 1871, at 16 Alexandra Drive, Liverpool, the third child of William Sproston Caine (DNB, 1901-50), and his wife Alice, the daughter of Hugh Stowell Brown, minister at the Myrtle Street Baptist church, Liverpool. When her father was elected M.P. for Scarborough, the family moved to London where she studied at Clapham Secondary School for Girls before entering Newnham College
LEWIS, THOMAS (1859 - 1929) Cameroons, Congo, Baptist missionary Born near Whitland, Carmarthenshire, 13 October 1859, a son of William Lewis, blacksmith and devout Baptist. In 1871 he was baptized and received into Nazareth Baptist church, Whitland. For a while he worked in his father's smithy, but imbued with a missionary purpose (inspired by the story of William Carey) and encouraged to preach, he studied under the Rev. John Evans at S. Clears grammar
LEWIS, THOMAS (fl. 1731-1749), translator and Methodist exhorter , to assist the English brethren. Thomas William of Eglwys Ilan names a Thomas Lewis as a member of the Glamorgan Association, 1747-9.
LEWIS, THOMAS (1759 - 1842), hymn-writer Born at Cwmcynwal, Llanwrda, Carmarthenshire. He was given a smattering of education in his own neighbourhood and was then apprenticed to a blacksmith. He opened his own smithy at Talley, where he remained for the rest of his life. Although it was the Baptists who first impressed upon him the importance of religion, his spiritual father was really William Lloyd of Caeo (1741 - 1808). He joined
LEWIS, TIMOTHY RICHARDS (1841 - 1886), surgeon, pathologist, and pioneer in tropical medicine Born at Hafod, Llan-gan, Carmarthenshire, 31 October 1841, the eldest child of William Lewis and Britania (Richards), his wife. He was brought up in the parish of Crinow, Pembrokeshire, and received his early education at Narberth National School and at the grammar school kept in that town by Joseph and William Edward Morris. He was apprenticed at the age of 15 to a Narberth pharmacist, but after
LEWIS, WILLIAM (fl. 1786-1794), hymn-writer
LEWIS, WILLIAM (1814 - 1891), Calvinistic Methodist missionary and linguist
LEWIS, WILLIAM (1835? - 1918), printer and publisher Born at Tewkesbury. The printing business at Cardiff, founded by John Bird in 1791 and conducted in 1855 by Hugh Bird, was transferred by the latter in 1866 to his two assistants, William Lewis and John Williams, who worked in partnership until 1873 when William Lewis became sole proprietor. Lewis had, prior to coming to Cardiff, served as an assistant in a book and stationery establishment at

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973 - 984 of 1882 for "William Glyn"