LEWIS, WILLIAM MORTIMER (1840 - 1880), Baptist college principal
Date of birth: 1840
Date of death: 1880
Gender: Male
Occupation: Baptist college principal
Area of activity: Education; Religion
Author: Griffith Milwyn Griffiths
Born July 1840 at Mydrim, Carmarthenshire. He received his early education at the village school and under Alcwyn C. Evans at Carmarthen. When he was 13 years of age he was apprenticed to a draper in Carmarthen for five years, during which time he adopted Baptist principles. He entered Carmarthen Presbyterian College in 1860, and after four years there, went to Glasgow University. In 1870 he entered Regent's Park College, but in February 1871 was appointed tutor at the Baptist College at Pontypool. He was elected principal of that college in 1877, but lost his health and died in Switzerland 18 October 1880.
Author
- Griffith Milwyn Griffiths
- T. R. Roberts, Eminent Welshmen: a short biographical dictionary of Welshmen... from the earliest times to the present (1908)
- Y Greal sef Cylchgrawn Misol at wasanaeth y Bedyddwyr, March 1871, June 1877, November 1880
- H. Blackwell, NLW MS 9264A: A Dictionary of Welsh Biography
- E. Pan Jones, Oriel Coleg Presbyteraidd, Caerfyrddin: yn cynwys hanes yr holl fyfyrwyr fu yn y coleg o 1796 hyd 1899 (Merthyr Tydfil 1909)
- The Baptist Magazine (1809–1904), 1883
Sources
- Elliott & Fry, W. Mortimer Lewis
- Elliott & Fry, W. Mortimer Lewis
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Published date: 1959
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