Dictionary of Welsh Biography

LLWYD, FFOWC (fl. c. 1580-1620) Fox Hall,, poet and squire son of Siôn Llwyd and his first wife, Sybil, daughter of Richard Glyn. His wife was Alice, daughter of Ffowc ap Thomas ap Gronw. Little is known about him and only a few of his poems remain in MSS. These include those to Sir John Lloyd of Yale (NLW MS 3057D, 962) and Thomas Prys of Plas Iolyn (B.M. Add. MS. 14896, 58); and also one which reveals the poet's acquaintance with contemporary life in
LLWYD, HUMPHREY (1527 - 1568), physician and antiquary of great eloquence, an excellent rhetorician, a sound philosopher, and almost noted antiquary '. Books which he collected for lord Lumley were subsequently sold to James I and are now in the British Museum. He married Barbara, sister and heiress of John, the last lord Lumley, and had two sons and two daughters. His motto, as appears from a mezzotint portrait by J. Faber (1717), was ' Hwy pery klod
LLWYD, RICHARD (Bard of Snowdon; 1752 - 1835), poet and authority on Welsh heraldry and genealogy Born at the King's Head, Beaumaris, son of John and Alice Llwyd. The father, a coast trader, died at Warrington, of smallpox, when Richard was quite young. After nine months at the Beaumaris Free School, Llwyd entered the domestic service of a local gentleman; by 1870 he had become steward and secretary to a Mr. Griffith, Caerhun, near Conway. Later he retired to Beaumaris where he was
LLWYD, ROBERT (1565 - 1655), cleric and writer . He was one of the few clergymen who aimed at raising the religious standard of the Welsh by giving them books of devotion. He published Pregeth ynghylch Edifeirwch, a translation of a sermon by Arthur Dent, an English Presbyterian, in 1629. In 1630, at the request of John Hanmer, bishop of St Asaph, he published Llwybr Hyffordd yn cyfarwyddo'r anghyfarwydd i'r nefoedd, etc., a translation of Dent's
LLWYD, HUMPHREY (c. 1527 - 1568), antiquary and map-maker Earl's son-in-law John, Lord Lumley, while at the same time amassing a substantial library of his own. Eventually these combined libraries were purchased by James I and now form part of the Royal Collection in the British Library. Over sixty volumes in the collection contain Llwyd's and/or Lumley's signature. Llwyd's connection to the Arundel household was cemented by his marriage to Barbara Lumley
LLYWELYN ap GRUFFYDD (d. 1317), nobleman, soldier and rebel martyr Llywelyn Bren. With the deposition of Edward II, the estates in Senghenydd were resumed (11 February 1327) by his sons - Gruffydd, John, Meurig, Roger, William and Llywelyn.
LLYWELYN ap IORWERTH (fl. 1173-1240), prince 1199 he promised to become a leader of the calibre and vision of Owain Gwynedd; in fact, between 1199 and 1203, he restored the undivided sovereignty of his grandfather over the whole of Gwynedd, including Merioneth and Penllyn. The attitude of the English crown remained for a time uncertain, until king John resolved on a policy of friendship which was marked by Llywelyn's marriage in 1205 to Joan
LLYWELYN GOCH Y DANT (fl. 1470-1471), bard of Pembroke, at Chepstow, in 1471 - this elegy contains a violent attack upon Jasper Tudor. He also wrote an awdl, in unusual metres, upon the abbey of Neath. And that is all that survives of his compositions. Ieuan Du'r Bilwg describes him in a cywydd as a chief-of-song and an outstanding composer of poems in praise of men. Lewis Glyn Cothi suggests, in a poem to John ap David (Works, 108), that
LLYWELYN SION (fl. second half of the 16th century), poet, farmer, at one time beadle or crier in the courts, a professional copyist by trade, and one of the most important figures in the literary life of Glamorganshire his reputation to the fact that he was the greatest professional copyist of his time; he was not as prolific a copyist as John Jones (1578? - 1658?) of Gellilyfdy or Robert Vaughan of Hengwrt, but his MSS. are far more systematic and he has kept aloof from contemporary literary prejudices. There are thirteen of his MSS. still in existence - seven being collections of cywyddau and awdlau, one of
LOCKLEY, RONALD MATHIAS (1903 - 2000), farmer, naturalist, conservationist and author year or so of the war, Ronald Lockley wrote letters describing nature and life on Skokholm to John Buxton (1912–1989), his ornithological and literary brother-in-law. The correspondence continued when John was captured by the Germans in Norway and he was transferred to a prisoner-of-war camp where he was able to study the redstart with the help of the German ornithologist Erwin Stresemann (1889-1972
LORT family Stackpole, GEORGE LORT came from Staffordshire to Pembrokeshire c. 1567 as steward of the Stackpole estate under Margaret Stanley; later on he bought the estate. His heir was his son ROGER LORT (1555? - 1613), sheriff in 1607; then came HENRY LORT (sheriff in 1619), who was said to have been deeply involved in smuggling on the Pembrokeshire coast. Henry had three sons: ROGER (who lived at Stackpole); JOHN
LOVELAND, KENNETH (1915 - 1998), journalist and music critic Kenneth Loveland was born on 12 October 1915 in Sheerness, Kent, the son of Charles John Loveland, described in the 1911 census as a 'salesman and outfitter' (born c.1886), and his wife Winifred Jane (née Wraight c.1885). His first experience of music was through listening to the radio, but his subsequent encounters with live music at concerts at London's Queen's Hall left an indelible impression

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