LLOYD (or FLUDD), GEORGE (1560 - 1615), bishop of Chester
Date of birth: 1560
Date of death: 1615
Parent: Jonet Lloyd (née Vychan)
Parent: Meredydd (Lloyd) ap John ap Maredydd Llwyd
Gender: Male
Occupation: bishop of Chester
Area of activity: Religion
Author: Arthur Herbert Dodd
The fifth son of Meredydd (Lloyd) ap John ap Meredydd Llwyd of Beaumaris, he was born at Bryn Euryn, Llandrillo yn Rhos, which his mother, Jonet Conwy, inherited through her father, Hugh Conwy Fychan, a descendant of Marchudd, founder of one of the fifteen tribes of North Wales. He was a scholar of King's School, Chester, from 1575-9, entering Jesus College, Cambridge, in 1579, and graduating B.A. in 1583, M.A. 1586, B.D. 1593, D.D. 1598. He became a Fellow of Magdalene, c. 1586, sinecure rector of Llanrwst, 1597, of Heswall, 1597-1613, and of Bangor Iscoed, 1612-5. In 1600 he was consecrated bishop of Sodor and Man, exchanging the see in December 1604 for that of Chester, where he reversed the anti-Puritan policy of his Welsh predecessor Richard Vaughan, formerly bishop of Bangor.
He died 1 August 1615, and was buried in Chester cathedral, where he is commemorated by a mural inscription (text in Ormerod, Cheshire, 1882 ed., i, 192). In the year of his death he bought Pant Iocyn, near Wrexham, formerly the residence of the Almer family, which remained the home of his family till 1634.
Author
- Emeritus Professor Arthur Herbert Dodd, (1891 - 1975)
- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, and sources therein cited
- Venn, Alumni Cantabrigienses I, i, 94
- J. E. Griffith, Pedigrees of Anglesey and Carnarvonshire Families (1914), 290
- H. B. Thomas, A History of the Diocese of St. Asaph (1874) (1911 ed.), i, 435, ii, 343
- A. N. Palmer, History of the thirteen country townships of the old parish of Wrexham, and of the townships of Burras Riffri, Erlas, & Erddig Being the fifth and last part of "A history of the town and parish of Wrexham" (1903), 1903, 175-6
- Transactions of the Chester Architectural, Archaeological, and Historic Society (1857–1909), n.s., vi, 245-8
Sources
- Wikipedia Article: George Lloyd
Further Reading
Published date: 1959
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