Dictionary of Welsh Biography

LLOYD family Peterwell, 1747 until his death in 1755. John Lloyd married (1) Elizabeth, daughter and coheiress of Sir Isaac Le Hemp (or Le Hoop), who is mentioned in Paul Whitehead The State Dunces, and (2) a Miss Savage. He was an intimate friend of many well-known men of the day including Henry Fox (afterwards lord Holland) Sir Charles Hanbury-Williams and Richard Rigby, the paymaster-general. In 1750 he became the owner
LLOYD family Dolobran, old meeting house were bought by SAMPSON SAMUEL LLOYD in 1877 and another member of the family, HENRY LLOYD, had bought Lower Dolobran and Coedcowryd in 1872-3. GEORGE AMBROSE LLOYD (1879 - 1941), first baron Lloyd of Dolobran, was the second son of Sampson Samuel Lloyd, the heir of the purchaser of Dolobran.
LLOYD, CHARLES (d. 1698), squire of Maesllwch in Radnorshire (in his later days) and Independent elder One of Vavasor Powell's apologists in the Examen et Purgamen Vavasoris of 1654; he supported him also by signing the Word for God in opposition to the Protectorate of Cromwell. In August 1672 Henry Maurice paid him a visit, and in 1675 Maurice puts it on record that Lloyd was one of the elders in the 'gathered church' of Brecknock. He was one of the Dissenters, like Richard Edwards of Nanhoron
LLOYD, DAVID (1805 - 1863), principal of Carmarthen Presbyterian College and Unitarian minister Born in 1805 at Llandysul, son of John Lloyd, schoolmaster, and grandson of David Lloyd (1724 - 1779) of Brynllefrith, his mother being the daughter of the Rev. Henry Thomas, parish priest of Bangor Teifi and Henllan. He was educated at his father's school, his uncle Dr. Charles Lloyd's school, the Rev. John Thomas of Pantydefaid's school, Carmarthen Academy (1825-9), and Glasgow University (1829
LLOYD, DAVID MYRDDIN (1909 - 1981), librarian and Welsh scholar D. Myrddin Lloyd was born 15 April 1909 in 399 Heol Ganol, Fforest-fach (y Gendros), Swansea, the elder of the two sons of William Henry Lloyd, a carpenter from Carmarthen, and his wife, Eleanor, the daughter of Reverend David Davies, 'Dafi Dafis' of Rhydcymerau (1814-1891), a character well known for his humour and stories, many of whose personal characteristics were inherited by his grandson
LLOYD, HANNIBAL EVANS (1771 - 1847), author and translator Born in London, son of Henry Lloyd (see article on him) described as a native of Cwmbychan, a farm in the parish of Llanbedr, Meironnydd. His mother was a descendant of the Garnetts of Yorkshire. Having lost his parents when young, he was brought up by relatives. In 1800 he settled at Hamburg in Germany, and later fought in defence of that city against the French. Returning to England in July
LLOYD, HENRY (Ap Hefin; 1870 - 1946), poet and printer
LLOYD, HENRY (c. 1720 - 1783), soldier and military writer
LLOYD, JOHN (1480 - 1523), musician named among those receiving livery for the funeral of prince Henry. He composed much ecclesiastical music - masses and motets; for two pieces by him see B.M. Add. MS. 31922. John Hawkins in his History of Music, has this note: ' John Floyd of Welsh extraction, Bachelor of Music, and a gentleman of the Chapel Royal, temp. Henry VIII. He made a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, returned, and died in the King's
LLOYD, JOHN (1833 - 1915), political reformer and antiquary very valuable work as an antiquary. Involved in disputes on manorial rights and ancient customs, he had formed a good collection of historical documents; and he also rescued a mass of papers from the office of Henry Maybery, a Brecon attorney much concerned in the affairs of some of the early South Wales ironmasters, treasurer of the county, and deputy-registrar of the consistory court. Lloyd
LLOYD, LUDOVIC (fl. 1573-1610), courtier, versifier, and compiler Twyne's translation of Lhuyd's Breviary of Britaine, 1573, William Blandy's The Castle or picture of pollicy, 1581, and Henry Perry's Egluryn Phraethineb, 1595. In the same way, contemporary poets like Thomas Churchyard and Edward Grant contributed verses to Lloyd's work, The Pilgrimage of Princes, 1573. In B.M. Add. MS. 14965 (6) there is a long eulogy, in twenty-six verses, of queen Elizabeth, with a
LLOYD, MORGAN (1820 - 1893), barrister and politician . M. Wynne, of Peniarth, the official Liberal candidate being Henry Robertson, of Pale. Lloyd was defeated although he was strongly supported in the Ffestiniog and surrounding districts. He left Gladstone on the Home Rule issue and in 1892 unsuccessfully contested Anglesey county as a Liberal-Unionist. He was interested in Welsh educational movements; he was sub-treasurer of the 1863 committee to

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