Monday 1 April 2013
102 Lewis Dillwyn
Constituency : Swansea District 1855-85, Swansea 1885-92
Lewis was the son of a previous MP for Glamorganshire and inherited his pottery industries. He was educated at Bath and married the daughter of his father's geologist friend Henry de la Beche. He headed the firm Dillwyn and Richards, was a director of the GWR and had interests in banking and steel.He became Mayor of Swansea in 1848.
Lewis was a Quaker and always on the Radical wing of the party. He was in favour of household footage. He supported the Cardiganshire farmers evicted for voting the wrong way in 1868 and anti-tithe agitation in Denbighshire in the 1880s. He was an early and fervent supporter of Welsh disestablishment. He moved an anti-clerical amendment to the Endowed Schools Act in 1873. In March 1886 he put down a disestablishment resolution describing the English church in Wales as "an anomaly and injustice which ought no longer to exist". In 1887 he reaffirmed the Welsh Liberal Party's support for Irish Home Rule.
Lewis was also interested in natural history , geology and photography.
Lewis died in 1892 shortly before the election that year. He was 78.
Lewis concludes our look at the Welsh MPs of 1859. Now we look at the North East of England.
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