Willie Llewelyn
William Dillwyn Llewelyn was a Welsh first-class cricketer.
Llewelyn was engaged to a daughter of Lord Dynevor, but he committed suicide a week prior to the scheduled date for his marriage. His funeral was attended by many of Wales' leading social figures.
Family and early life
The son of Sir John Dillwyn-Llewellyn and his wife, Caroline Julia Hicks-Beach, he was born at Aberdulais in April 1868. He was educated at Eton College, before going up to New College, Oxford.Career
While studying at Oxford, he made his debut in first-class cricket for Oxford University against the touring Australians at Oxford in 1890. He played first-class cricket for Oxford until 1891, making sixteen appearances and gaining a blue in both 1890 and 1891. Llewelyn scored 638 runs in these matches, at an average of 20.58 and a high score of 116, which came against the Gentlemen of England in 1890. During his time at Oxford, he also played one first-class match for the Oxford and Cambridge Universities Past and Present cricket team against the Australians at Portsmouth in 1890.Following his graduation from Oxford, he appeared in further first-class matches in 1893 for the Gentlemen of England and the Marylebone Cricket Club. Llewelyn was associated with Glamorgan County Cricket Club, then a second-class county, becoming the club treasurer in 1893.