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teulu KEMEYS Cefn Mabli, . He served as J.P. for Monmouthshire and Somerset. He married 10 August 1899, Dorothy, daughter of major-general Sir Arthur E. A. Ellis. The abeyance of the barony of Wharton, with which a branch of the family had been connected, was terminated in his favour by writ of summons to Parliament 15 February 1916, and he became 8th baron Wharton. He died 4 March 1934.
LEACH, ARTHUR LEONARD (1869 - 1957), historian, geologist and archaeologist stimulated by his association with Edward Laws. Arthur Leach's formal education was confined to the local National School and Trinity College, Carmarthen, where he qualified as a teacher in 1890, but in those academic subjects to which he contributed significantly he was of necessity largely self-taught. His teaching career (which he readily admitted he disliked) was entirely spent in south-east London
LEVI, THOMAS ARTHUR (1874 - 1954), professor of law
LEWIS, EDWARD ARTHUR (1880 - 1942), historian
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, JOHN SAUNDERS (1893 - 1985), politician, critic and dramatist volume Canlyn Arthur (1938). He stood as his party's candidate for the University of Wales seat in the General Election of 1931, gaining 914 votes. His commitment to the nationalist cause led to the major turning point of his life. In 1935 the Air Ministry announced plans to build an RAF training camp on a strip of land on the Llyn peninsula. Lewis led a campaign to halt the development. After
LEWIS, LEWIS WILLIAM (Llew Llwyfo; 1831 - 1901), poet, novelist, and journalist ; with 'Caradog' in the national eisteddfod held at Aberdare, 1861; with 'Llewelyn' in the Rhyl eisteddfod, 1863; with 'Dafydd' in the national eisteddfod held at Aberystwyth, 1865; with 'Arthur y Ford Gron' in the Chester national eisteddfod, 1866; with 'Elias y Thespiad' in Ruthin eisteddfod, 1868; with 'Gruffydd ap Cynan' in the Wrexham national eisteddfod, 1888; and with 'Ioan y Disgybl Anwyl' in
LEWIS, MOSES (fl. 1748-1800), Methodist exhorter, afterwards an Antinomian son of Arthur Lewis of Fron, Brymbo, Denbighshire. He was one of the founders of the church in Adwy'r Clawdd and it was to his house that Peter Williams fled after his persecution in 1748. He began to exhort c. 1750. In 1751 he adhered to the party of Howel Harris, but soon repudiated him and refused to join his 'Family' at Trevecka. He became an Antinomian and established a small following in
LEWIS, TIMOTHY (1877 - 1958), Welsh and Celtic scholar Arthur and the ' Coraniaid '. In his volume Beirdd a bardd-rin Cymru Fu he tried to show that the analysis of J. Morris-Jones of the bardic system in his book Cerdd dafod was totally misleading since patterns for many of the Welsh metres and poetical terms are to be found in English and Medieval Latin. Some of his theses were mocked by some scholars and were totally ignored by others. However, many
LEWIS, Sir WILFRID HUBERT POYER (1881 - 1950), judge Born 9 February 1881 in London, son of Arthur Griffith Poyer Lewis, barrister-at-law, of Henllan, near Narberth, Pembrokeshire, and Annie Wilhelmine, his wife, and grandson of Richard Lewis, Bishop of Llandaff from 1883 to 1905. He was educated at Eton and University College, Oxford, where he graduated in history in 1903. He was called to the Bar by the Inner Temple in 1908 and served in the
LLEWELLYN, DAVID TREHARNE (1916 - 1992), Conservative politician -horses included the right of women to be allowed to train, the removal of unsafe concrete posts on race courses, a minimum wage for stable lads, and the wearing of hard hats for all racing personnel when riding out. As a young man, he had written a considerable amount of poetry. As a fervent devotee of Aneurin Bevan, he was the author of Nye: the Beloved Patrician (1961), The Adventures of Arthur
teulu LLOYD Rhiwaedog, Rhiwedog, from the ancient and once powerful family of Lloyd, of Rhiwaedog '; his nephew, GEORGE PRICE LLOYD, of Plasyndre, Bala, served for 1840-1; whilst EDWARD EVANS –LLOYD, of Moelygarnedd, near Bala, nephew of the latter, served the office in 1887-8. And, finally, the sheriff for 1939-40 was ARTHUR CAMPBELL LLOYD JONES -LLOYD, of Moel-y-garnedd and Chester. To the pedigree compilers, including many of the

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