Dictionary of Welsh Biography

LLEWELYN, WILLIAM (1735 - 1803), Independent minister April 1769 at latest, and Brown (Free Churches of Leominster) says that he went to Walsall from Hereford. Llewelyn figures in the Leominster Moravian congregation-diary (excerpts in Trafodion Cymdeithas Hanes Bedyddwyr Cymru, 1935, 14-16); after the death of his wife (a daughter of John Jenkins, pastor at Bromyard) his mind became unsettled, and though nominally pastor at Walsall he wandered around
LLOYD family Dolobran, Guilsfield who was murdered in the Red Castle in 1447. IEUAN or IEUAN LLOYD AB OWEN married Gwenhwyvar, daughter of Meredith Lloyd of Meifod. John Wyn of Dyffryn was his brother. The surname Lloyd was established in the next generation with DAVID LLOYD AB IEUAN AP OWEN (a juror in Montgomeryshire, 1542). 1523 is given as the year of his birth, but it is difficult to reconcile this with the eulogy which
LLOYD family Bodidris, held at Lloyd's Wrexham house, and it was with funds supplied by him that captain John Salusbury left for London on the earl's summons to participate in the conspiracy of February 1601. Lloyd was denounced to the government but escaped punishment, and in the county election of the following September he was among the old adherents of Essex who backed with force the candidature of Sir Richard Trevor
LLOYD family Rhiwaedog, Rhiwedog, ancestor MEREDYDD AB IEUAN AP MEREDYDD with MARGARET, eldest daughter and coheiress of EINION AB ITHEL of Rhiwaedog, Esquire of the Body of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, in A.D. 1395, and high sheriff of Meirionydd for life. He was [according to Lloyd ] the son of ITHEL AB GWRGENEU FYCHAN AB GWRGENEU AP MADOG AP RHIRYD FLAIDD.' The deputy-herald Lewis Dwnn, when he visited Rhiwaedog on 1 August 1592
LLOYD family Maesyfelin, -law on 3 November 1608. He married Mary, daughter of John Gwyn Stedman of Strata Florida, Cardiganshire, and had three sons and six daughters. He was king's attorney in Wales and the Marches, 1614-1622, was appointed to the Council of the Marches 3 December 1614, and was knighted 7 April 1622. He was recorder of Brecon, 1617-1636, puisne justice of Chester, 1622-1636, and chief justice of the
LLOYD family Leighton, Moel-y-garth, difficulty in securing his pay. The date of his death is unknown. Sir CHARLES LLOYD (died 1678?), merchant and politician Business and IndustryPolitics, Government and Political Movements, was the son of David Lloyd of Moely-garth, a member of the Shrewsbury Drapers' Company and fourth son of Humphrey Lloyd of Leighton, above. After the death of his elder brother John he inherited the property of Moel-y
LLOYD family Peterwell, and South Wales, 1735. He was M.P. for Cardiganshire, 1734-42, voted for the Convention, 1739, but was unseated, on petition, in February 1742. He died 1747. Walter Lloyd was succeeded in his estates and the office of attorney-general for the three counties by his eldest surviving son JOHN LLOYD (died 1755) politician Politics, Government and Political Movements He was M.P. for Cardiganshire from
LLOYD GEORGE family time as a valuer. He was also an elder of Capel Mawr (CM), Cricieth; a disagreement arose between the members which was settled when the minister, John Owen, and about half the membership, including Richard Owen, left Capel Mawr to establish Seion (CM) in Cricieth. Margaret was educated at Dr. Williams' School, Dolgellau; she was a faithful member of Seion chapel, Cricieth, throughout her life. She
LLOYD GEORGE, DAVID (the first Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor), (1863 - 1945), statesman - 1968), Mair Eluned (1890 - 1907), Olwen Elizabeth (1892 - 1990) (who married Sir Thomas John Carey Evans), Gwilym (1894 - 1967), and Megan (1902 - 1966), (2) 23 October 1943, Frances Louise, daughter of John Stevenson of Wallington, Surrey, his long-serving personal assistant and companion.
LLOYD, CHARLES (d. 1698), squire of Maesllwch in Radnorshire (in his later days) and Independent elder about Wales to Dr. John Evans when he was compiling his Nonconformist lists for the benefit of the Whig electoral managers. His last will was dated 27 March 1714/5; in it he laid a special injunction upon any one of his own family or anybody else, who dared to dispose of the land on which Maesyronnen chapel was built, to pay a fine heavy enough to build a new chapel elsewhere. He died in 1717, his
LLOYD, CHARLES (1766 - 1829), Unitarian minister and schoolmaster Born 18 December 1766, fourth son of David Lloyd of Brynllefrith (1724 - 1779. On his father's death he passed into the guardianship of his uncle John Lloyd of Coedlannau-fawr. In 1784 he went to 'Carmarthen' academy, at the time located at Swansea. In 1788, already 'a fairly high Arian,' he was called to Oat Street meeting at Evesham (a church which has had several Welsh pastors); he insisted
LLOYD, CHARLES FRANCIS (1852 - 1917), musician Born 7 October 1852 at Chester, the son of John Ambrose Lloyd. He was given his earliest music lessons by his father and, when he was 13, sent to the school kept by Joseph David Jones at Ruthin, where he received lessons on the piano by W. Argent. From Ruthin he went to a school at Tattenhall, near Chester; during the two years spent there he used to deputise for the parish church organist on

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