Sir John Talbot Dillwyn-Llewellyn, 1st Baronet (26 May 1836 – 6 July 1927) was a Welsh

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 Conservative

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 Member of Parliament

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 who was notable for his links to Welsh sports.

Background and education

Llewellyn was the son of photographer and scientist John Dillwyn Llewelyn

John Dillwyn Llewelyn

John Dillwyn Llewelyn was a botanist and pioneer photographer.-Early life:He was born in Swansea, Wales, the eldest son of Lewis Weston Dillwyn and Mary Dillwyn, née Adams, the natural daughter of Col. John Llewelyn of Penllergare and Ynysygerwn...

 and Emma Thomasina Talbot, youngest daughter of Thomas Mansel Talbot and Lady Mary (nee Fox Strangways) of Penrice, south Wales and a cousin of William Henry Fox Talbot. He was educated at Eton

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 and later Christ Church, Oxford

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.

Career

Llewellyn was High Sheriff of Glamorgan

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 in 1878 and Mayor of Swansea

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 in 1891. He was made a Baronet, of Penllergaer in Llangyfelach and Ynys-y-gerwn in Cadoxton juxta Neath in the County of Glamorgan, in 1890. He was elected Conservative MP for Swansea

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 in the 1895 general election

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, but lost the seat in 1900.

Llewellyn's connections to sport included the position of captain of the South Wales Cricket Club and in 1885 he replaced the Earl of Jersey as the president of the Welsh Rugby Union

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; a post he would hold until 1906, when he was replaced by Horace Lyne

Horace Lyne

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. Lyne himself stated that 'they (WRU) had been singularly fortunate in getting a gentleman like Mr J.T.D. Llewellyn to act in that captaincy'.

Family

Llewellyn married in 1861 Caroline Julia, daughter of Sir Michael Hicks Beach, 8th Baronet

Sir Michael Hicks Beach, 8th Baronet

Sir Michael Hicks Hicks-Beach, 8th Baronet was a British MP and High Sheriff.He was appointed High Sheriff of Gloucestershire for 1840 and then returned as Member of Parliament for East Gloucestershire from January 1854 until his death in November of the same year.Hicks-Beach married Harriett...

. Their younger and only surviving son Charles

Sir Charles Dillwyn-Venables-Llewellyn, 2nd Baronet

Sir Charles Leyshon Dillwyn-Venables-Llewellyn, 2nd Baronet was a Welsh Conservative Member of Parliament who briefly represented Radnorshire in the House of Commons and served as Lord-Lieutenant of Radnorshire....

married the heiress of the Venables family and adopted the additional surname Venables. He became MP for Radnorshire and High Sheriff of that county.

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