Llewellyn "Lyn" Cadwaladr was a Welsh operatic tenor who originated roles in, or starred in early tours of, comic operas and operettas of Gilbert and Sullivan, Solomon and Stephens, Robert Planquette and others in the Victorian era, often in America for the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company.
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Llewellyn Cadwaladr was born in 1857 in Ruabon, Denbighshire, the son of Robert Llewellyn Cadwaladr, a mining engineer, and his wife Pamela.
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Llewellyn Cadwaladr added another major role, Alexis in The Sorcerer, on tour from March 1881.
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Llewellyn Cadwaladr next created the role of Earl Tolloller in the first New York production of Gilbert and Sullivan's Iolanthe, later touring in the role in Britain throughout most of 1883.
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Llewellyn Cadwaladr rejoined D'Oyly Carte in early 1885 at the Savoy Theatre, playing Alexis in the first revival of The Sorcerer, where he was substituting for an ailing Durward Lely.
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Llewellyn Cadwaladr next toured in repertory as Ralph, Frederic, the Duke of Dunstable and Tolloller and later in the year as Alexis.
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Llewellyn Cadwaladr was back in America late in 1885, where he played the role of Nanki-Poo in Carte's tour of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado, appearing in the same role in Germany from late 1886 to early 1887 and then in Britain.
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Llewellyn Cadwaladr next played Richard Dauntless in the first provincial tour of Ruddigore for the rest of 1887.
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Llewellyn Cadwaladr next toured in South America in 1890 as the leading tenor with Edwin Cleary's English Comic Opera Company, in various roles including Ralph, Frederic, Nanki-Poo and the Defendant in Trial by Jury, among others.
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Llewellyn Cadwaladr is buried in an unmarked grave in the Actors' Acre in Brookwood Cemetery.
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