| Authorised form of name | Dillwyn; Lewis Weston (1778 - 1855) |
| Dates | 1778 - 1855 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Ipswich, Suffolk, England |
| Date of birth | 21 August 1778 |
| Place of death | Sketty Hall, near Swansea, Glamorgan |
| Date of death | 31 August 1855 |
| DatesAndPlaces | Burial:
Penllergaer Church |
| Research field | Botany |
| Activity | Education:
At Tottenham
Career:
His father purchased the Cambrian pottery , Swansea, and placed him in charge (ca 1802); High Sheriff of County of Glamorgan (1818); MP for Glamorgan (1832-1841); Alderman and Mayor of Swansea; JP for Glamorgan; Vice-President of the British Association for the Advancement of Science for its meeting in Swansea (1848); his pottery became celebrated for its realistic paintings of butterflies, flowers, birds, shells.
Memberships:
FLS
|
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 02/02/1804 |
| Relationships | Eldest son of William Dillwyn of Higham Lodge, Walthamstow, a Quaker, and his second wife Sarah (nee Weston); married 13 July 1807 Mary, daughter of John Llewelyn of Penllgarve and Ynys-y-gerwn and they had 6 children; their marriage caused his disownment by the Quaker meeting, for "Marrying out"; father of John Dillwyn (FRS 1836) |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB; DQB
Notes:
DQB has birth place as St Thomas' Square, parish of St John, Hackney, Middlesex |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/25385244 |
| Code | NA6259 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| MS/682/15 | Letter from Lewis Weston Dillwyn, Dover, to James Sowerby, 2 Mead Place, St George's Field, Southwark | 29 March 1800 |
| IM/001152 | Dillwyn, Lewis Weston | 1833 |
| EC/1803/05 | Dillwyn, Lewis Weston: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| PT/16/26 | Letter, 'On fossile [fossil] shells' from L W [Lewis Weston] Dillwyn to the Right Hon Sir Humphry Davy | 19 May 1823 |
| PT/20/9 | Paper, 'Observations on the anatomy and habits of marine testaceous molluscae, illustrative of their mode of feeding' by Edward Osler | [1832] |
| PT/18/11 | Paper, 'On the burrowing and boring marine animals' by Edward Osler | 15 February 1826 |
| PT/17/12 | Letter, 'Regarding the relative periods at which the different families of testaceous animals appear to have been created, and on the gradual approximation which may be observed in our British strata from the fossil remains of the oldest formations, to the living inhabitants of our land and waters' from L W [Lewis Weston] Dillwyn to Sir H [Humphry] Davy | 1 February 1824 |