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- 1544-1907 (Creation)
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Lewis Weston Dillwyn (1778-1855) was a naturalist and a Whig MP. He was born in Ipswich, Suffolk, the son of William Dillwyn (?1743-1824) of Walthamstow, and Sarah Weston of Essex. He attended the Friends' School in Tottenham, and in 1797 went to Dover to study botany. He ran the 'Cambrian Pottery' in Swansea, 1802-1817, living at Burrough Lodge and then Sketty Hall. He was a noted naturalist, publishing works on botany and conchology, and was elected FRS in 1804. He was a Justice of the Peace, sheriff of Glamorgan, 1818, mayor of Swansea, 1839, and MP for Glamorgan, 1832-1841. Among his publications were Natural History of British Confervae (1802-9), Botanist's Guide through England and Wales, written with Dawson Turner (1805), A Descriptive Catalogue of British Shells (2 vols, 1817), An Index to the Historia Conchyliorum of Lister (Oxford, 1923) and a short history of Swansea published in 1840. In 1807 he married Mary, daughter and heir of John Llewelyn of Penlle'rgaer, Llangyfelach, Glamorgan. They had two daughters and two sons, John Dillwyn-Llewelyn (1810-1882) of Penlle'rgaer and Lewis Llewelyn Dillwyn (1814-1892). Lewis Weston Dillwyn died on 31 August 1855
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'Collectanea', printed and manuscript, relating mainly to Glamorgan, including copies of charters, copies of an Act of Parliament, dated 31 Henry VIII and printed by Thomas Berthelet in 1544, 'auctorisying the Kynges highnes newely to allotte certayne towneshipes in Wales', memoranda and notes by L. W. Dillwyn, John Montgomery Traherne, and Edward Williams ('Iolo Morganwg'), autograph letters, 1906-1907, from John Stuart Corbett to Sir Thomas Mansel Franklen, etc.
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English, Latin.
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The description is also available in the Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Volume II (Aberystwyth, 1951).
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Formerly known as Traherne-Mansel Franklen 20-21.
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Preferred citation: NLW MSS 6530-6531E.
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- Corbett, John Stuart, 1845-1921 -- Correspondence. (Subject)
- Franklen, Thomas Mansel, Sir -- Correspondence. (Subject)
- Henry VIII, King of England, 1491-1547 (Subject)
- Corbett, John Stuart, 1845-1921. (Subject)
- Franklen, Thomas Mansel, Sir (Subject)
- Berthelet, Thomas, d. ca. 1556. (Subject)
- Iolo Morganwg, 1747-1826 (Subject)