Sir David Richard Llewellyn, 1st Baronet (9 March 1879 – 15 December 1940) was a
Welsh
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industrialist and financier.
He was born in
Aberdare, South
Wales
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, the son of Alderman Rees Llewellyn,
JP and educated at
Llandovery College
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and
Cardiff University
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. Starting with one small colliery in 1905 his expertise with electrically driven cutters that could mine thin seams enabled him to systematically acquire a range of businesses across the south Wales coalfields. He was created a baronet in 1922; and in 1930 he was elected chairman of Welsh Associated Collieries Ltd.
[LLEWELLYN, Sir David Richard’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 200]
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1879 births
1940 deaths
People from Aberdare
People educated at Llandovery College
Alumni of Cardiff University
20th-century Welsh businesspeople
Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom
British businesspeople in the coal industry
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