Benjamin Alec Lewis (1912-2003) was the

Archdeacon of St Davids The Archdeacon of St Davids is a senior cleric in the Church in Wales' Diocese of St Davids. The archdeacon is the senior priest with responsibility over the area of the archdeaconry of St Davids, one of three archdeaconries in the ...

from 1970 to 1982.'' Crockford's Clerical Directory 1980–82'' p604 London:

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, 1983 Lewis was born in 1912 and educated at

St David's College, Lampeter University of Wales, Lampeter ( cy, Prifysgol Cymru, Llanbedr Pont Steffan) was a university in Lampeter, Wales. Founded in 1822, and incorporated by royal charter in 1828, it was the oldest degree awarding institution in Wales, with limited ...

. He was ordained deacon in 1937, and priest in 1938. After curacies at Cardigan and

Ammanford Ammanford ( cy, Rhydaman) is a town and community in Carmarthenshire, Wales, with a population of 5,411 at the 2011 census. It is a former coal mining town. The built-up area had a population of 7,945 with the wider urban area even bigger. Acco ...

, he was

Bishop's messenger A bishop's messenger was a woman appointed a lay reader by the Church of England during the First World War due to the shortage of male clergy. Messengers were first appointed in 1917 in many dioceses of the Church of England. Meanwhile, women were ...

to the Bishop of St David's, David Prosser. He held incumbencies in

Llanelly Llanelly ( cy, Llanelli) is the name of a parish and coterminous community in the principal area of Monmouthshire, within the historic boundaries of Brecknockshire, south-east Wales. It roughly covers the area of the Clydach Gorge. The popula ...

and

Hubberston Hubberston is a coastal village in Pembrokeshire, Wales. It belongs to the parish of Hubberston in the historical hundred of Roose. It is located directly to the west of the larger town of Milford Haven, and is a district of the community of Milfo ...

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1912 births Alumni of the University of Wales, Lampeter Archdeacons of St Davids Church in Wales archdeacons 20th-century Welsh Anglican priests Year of death missing {{Welsh-Anglican-clergy-stub