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LEWIS, JOHN DANIEL VERNON (1879 - 1970), scholar, Independent minister, author, tutor and theological college principal . Witton Davies. Two important awards decided his future course of study; the Pusey and Ellerton Scholarship to Mansfield College, Oxford, followed by the Proctor Travelling Scholarship which gave him the opportunity of studying in Leipzig with Rudolf Kittel and other scholars. As well as completing the requirements of the Oxford M.A. he was nominated by Prof. D.S. Margoliouth, Prof. of Arabic, to be a
LEWIS, JOHN DAVID (1859 - 1914), bookseller, local historian, and founder of a printing press first books to be published there were Hanes Plwyf Llandyssul (W. J. Davies, 1896), Hanes Plwyfi Llangeler a Phenboyr (Daniel E. Jones, 1899), and Hanes Plwyf Llangunllo (E. Cunllo Davies, 1905). Here, too, were published the monthly Cwrs y Byd (ed. E. Pan Jones), and from 1900 on Yr Ymofyn(n)ydd, the Unitarian monthly. In 1911 Lewis won a prize at the national eisteddfod held at Carmarthen for a
LEWIS, JOHN HUW (1931 - 2008), printer and publisher member of the choir originally known as Gleisiaid Teifi, conducted by Catherine Watkin and then Elwyn Davies. He was a founder member of the local dining club and he served on more than one occasion as president of Cymrodorion Llandysul. He worked tirelessly to establish a Welsh-language nursery school in Llandysul and also the bilingual secondary school, Ysgol Dyffryn Teifi, on whose governing body he
LEWIS, JOHN SAUNDERS (1893 - 1985), politician, critic and dramatist Saunders Lewis was born at 61 Falkland Road, Poulton-cum-Seacombe, Wallasey, Cheshire, on 15 October 1893, the second of three sons of Lodwig Lewis (1859-1933), a Calvinistic Methodist minister, and his wife Mary Margaret (née Thomas, 1862-1900). He was educated at Liscard High School for Boys from the age of six, and went on to study English at Liverpool University in 1911. His academic career
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LEWIS, OWEN (1533 - 1594), bishop of Cassano, , greatly respected in the Papal court. In 1586 we hear of him working exceedingly hard in the interests of Mary, queen of Scots, and trying to persuade the Pope to support her claims to the English throne. He loathed the Spaniards and the supporters of the king of Spain, including more particularly the Jesuits; Phillip II knew this perfectly well and it was certainly he who insisted that Owen Lewis
LEWIS, Lady RUTH (1871 - 1946), a pioneering collector of Welsh folk-songs, and advocate of educational, religious, temperance and philanthropic bodies borough and she became the first woman to sit on the Flintshire Commission of Peace; she appeared often on the Caerwys bench. Because of her great interest in music, she was among the founding members of the Welsh Folk Song Society in 1906. At the beginning of the twentieth century, Ruth Lewis, Dr. Mary Davies and Grace Gwyneddon Davies, with the use of a phonograph, preserved many folk songs which were
LEWIS, TIMOTHY (1877 - 1958), Welsh and Celtic scholar Born 17 February 1877, in a house called Noble Court near Nebo chapel in the village of Efail-wen, Cilymaenllwyd parish, on the border between Pembrokeshire and Carmarthenshire. He was the eldest son and third of seven children of Job and Mary Lewis. The father worked locally in Llwyn'rebol quarry but after the quarry owners failed to pay the workers for six weeks' work in 1880 he decided to go
LEWIS, WILLIAM (1814 - 1891), Calvinistic Methodist missionary and linguist Born at Manchester, of Welsh parents, he set his mind on serving the China Mission under the London Missionary Society. In 1839 he entered the Bala C.M. College. In 1842 was ordained for the newly opened mission field of the Welsh Calvinistic Methodists in India. M. to Mary Roberts, of Towyn, Meironnydd, he arrived on the Khasia Hills in January 1843; he baptised his first converts in 1846. He
LEWIS, WILLIAM MORRIS (1839 - 1917), minister (Presb.) periodicals. He published his Davies Lecture on repentance - Edifeirwch - which was delivered at the General Assembly, 1900. His Welsh commentary on the Epistle to the Hebrews was translated into German, and W.M. Ramsay acknowledged that he had presented a strong case for Paul being its author. He died 26 May 1917, and his remains were buried in Holywell cemetery.
LINDEN, DIEDERICH WESSEL (bu farw 1769), medical doctor and mineralogist Diederich Wessel Linden was most likely born during the early eighteenth century in the small village of Hemmerde, Westphalia, Germany, the son of Thomas Linden, and his wife Mary. The circumstances of his upbringing remain obscure. However, it is likely he received some schooling that acquainted him with the foundations of mining and minerology. While identifying later in life as medical doctor
LIVSEY, GEORGE FREDERICK (1834 - 1923), bandmaster (born 1834) died in 1873. The couple had five children, James (born 1858), George (born 1860), Mary (born 1864), Sarah (born 1865) and Ralph (born 1866). The latter became a horn player with the Coldstream Guards and later at the Royal Italian Opera, Covent Garden. The Cyfarthfa band as a truly great ensemble did not outlive Crawshay's control of the Cyfarthfa ironworks, and early in the twentieth

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