Lewis Weston Dillwyn
1778–1855
Naturalist and porcelain manufacturer. Author of several natural history works. Head of the Cambrian pottery, Swansea; specialised in natural history designs on porcelain. Whig MP for Glamorganshire, 1832–7. President, Royal Institution of South Wales, 1835–55. Vice-president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 1848. FRS 1804.
Sources
R. Desmond 1977
Modern English biography
ODNB
Bibliography
Desmond, Ray. 1977. Dictionary of British and Irish botanists and horticulturists, including plant collectors and botanical artists. 3d ed. London: Taylor and Francis.
Modern English biography: Modern English biography, containing many thousand concise memoirs of persons who have died since the year 1850. By Frederick Boase. 3 vols. and supplement (3 vols.). Truro, Cornwall: the author. 1892–1921.
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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