John Talbot Dillwyn Llewelyn
1836–1927
Politician. BA, Oxford, 1858; MA, 1861. Mayor of Swansea, 1891; MP for Swansea 1895–1900. Noted as an amateur botanist and horticulturist. Reported the first sighting of a monarch butterfly in Britain in 1876.
Sources
Alum. Oxon.
Burke’s peerage
R. Desmond 1994, Salmon 2000, p. 348.
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