Dictionary of Welsh Biography

LLOYD, ROBERT (1716 - 1792) Plas Ashpool,, farmer and Methodist exhorter South Wales in 1759-1760; and this was the beginning of Methodism in the Vale of Clwyd. It was at Tŷ Modlen that John Owen (1733 - 1776) of Berthen Gron was converted, that Flintshire Methodism started, and that Edward Williams of Glan Clwyd (1750 - 1813) heard Daniel Rowland preach, and was pierced to the quick. Robert Llwyd and Edward Parry of Bryn Bugad (1723 - 1786) were friends and worked
LLOYD, ROBERT (Llwyd o'r Bryn; 1888 - 1961), eisteddfodwr, entertainer and farmer Born in Penybryn, Bethel, Llandderfel, Merionethshire, 29 February 1888, the youngest son of John and Winifred Lloyd. He was baptized by Michael Daniel Jones. He was educated at Sarnau school and after working for a period with his father on the farm, he married in 1913 Annie Williams, Derwgoed, Llandderfel. Thereafter he farmed Derwgoed until he retired in 1944. In this connection, he was one of
LLOYD, SIMON (1756 - 1836), Methodist cleric he fell in love with SARAH BOWEN (born 1727, died 29 April 1807), the first ' matron ' of the Trevecka Family. It was not without much trouble that Howel Harris was persuaded to assent to this marriage - or rather, possibly, to abandoning the capital which Sarah had brought into the family; however, on the intercession of John Evans of Bala (1723 - 1817), the marriage took place (the contract is
LLOYD, THOMAS (1765 - 1789), Unitarian minister and Academy tutor Born at Coedlannaufawr, Llanwenog, in 1765. His father was John, brother of David Lloyd (1845 - 1863) of Brynllefrith. He was educated at Davis of Castell-hywel's school, at Carmarthen Academy (1782-6), and Hoxton academy (1784-5). In March 1786 he was appointed tutor in classics and mathematics at 'Carmarthen' Academy (which at that time was located at Swansea), where he remained until his death
LLOYD, THOMAS (Crych Elen; 1841 - 1909), musician Born at Liverpool, of an English father and a Welsh mother. He was brought up at Dolwyddelan, of which his mother was a native, went to work in a slate quarry, but his whole thought was given to music. He was admitted as 'bard' and 'musician' at the pseudo-gorsedd, known as 'Arwest Llyn Geirionydd' (see Roberts, William John), held near Trefriw, and won some prizes at eisteddfodau. He emigrated
LLOYD, THOMAS (1673? - 1734), cleric and lexicologist Power to him - he did not live to inherit it, but was living there at the time of his death in 1734; he was buried 22 October at Wrexham. Some of his books and manuscripts are now in the N.L.W. (see N.L.W. Handlist, items 716-21). The library also has his interleaved and annotated copy of John Davies's Dictionarium Duplex, crammed with additional words and citations; this has proved invaluable in the
LLOYD, Sir THOMAS DAVIES (1820 - 1877), baronet, landowner, and politician Born 21 May 1820, eldest son of Thomas Lloyd of Bronwydd, Cardiganshire, (high sheriff in 1814), and Anne Davies, daughter of John Thomas of Llwydcoed and Llety-mawr, Carmarthenshire. He was educated at Harrow and Christ Church, Oxford. He married, December 1846, Henrietta Mary, daughter of George Reid of Bunker's Hill, Jamaica, and Watlington, Oxfordshire, by Louisa, daughter of Sir Charles
LLOYD, THOMAS RICHARD (Yr Estyn; 1820 - 1891), cleric Born at Denbigh, eldest son of John Lloyd, rector of Llanycil, 1826-41, and of Cerrigydrudion, 1841-68. He was educated at Ruthin Grammar School. Entering Jesus College, Oxford, in 1839, he graduated B.A. in 1843 and was ordained deacon in the same year, being licensed as curate to Llanfynydd in the parish of Hope, Flintshire He was ordained priest in 1844 and licensed to the perpetual curacy of
LLOYD, VAUGHAN (1736 - 1817), general Born at Ffos-y-bleiddiaid (near Ystrad Meurig, Cardiganshire), 17 January 1736, youngest son of John Lloyd and his wife Mary (Phillips, of Pembrokeshire) - on the family (which afterwards removed to Mabws in Llanrhystud), see Some family records … of the Lloyds, by Lloyd-Theakston and Davies (indexed). Lloyd joined the artillery; he was at Minden, 1759, one of the garrison of Gibraltar in 1779-80
LLOYD, Sir WALTER (1580 - 1662?) Llanfair Clydogau, Royalist The son of John Lloyd, high sheriff of Cardiganshire (1602), he was educated at Lincoln College Oxford. His wife was a daughter of Thomas Pryse of Glanfread, Cardiganshire. He was high sheriff of Cardiganshire in 1621. As M.P. for Cardiganshire, 1640, he voted against the impeachment of Strafford. In 1644 he was disabled by Parliament ' for deserting the Service of the House, being in the King's
LLOYD, WILLIAM (1637 - 1710), bishop of Llandaff was only by accident that he was prevented from joining his namesake William Lloyd of St Asaph, and raising the Seven Bishops into eight in 1688. At the Revolution he became a Nonjuror, and after Sancroft's death he was their acknowledged leader till his own demise, 1 January 1709/10. His son John married the daughter and heiress of bishop Humphrey Humphreys.
LLOYD, WILLIAM (1717 - 1777), cleric and translator Pryce, he got the mastership of Beaumaris school in July 1774 (1773 according to John Williams's history of that school), and was licensed to Llandegfan and Llansadwrn 17 July 1775, a day after his priesting. He resigned the school in 1776 (John Williams, 26); nothing is known of him after that.

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