Dictionary of Welsh Biography

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 (Einion Môn; 1792 - 1834), schoolmaster and poet that Society; and when clerics in Wales attacked the society, Lloyd, in 1829, composed a reply to these ' brainless chatterers ' as he called them. The reports of Cymreigyddion meetings, in Seren Gomer, show that he also lectured to the society. But in 1832 we find him, in company with Griffith Davies, F.R.S., protesting vigorously against the increasingly Radical tone of the society - see the debate
LLOYD, JOHN AMBROSE (1815 - 1874), musician Born 14 June 1815, at Mold, Flintshire, the son of Enoch and Catherine Lloyd. The father, who was a cabinet maker, also preached with the Baptists and was, in 1830, ordained minister of Hill Cliffe Chapel, Warrington. When the family moved to Hill Cliffe, John Ambrose Lloyd moved to Liverpool where his brother Isaac was a schoolmaster. It was at Liverpool, in 1831, that he composed his first hymn
LLOYD, JOHN MORGAN (1880 - 1960), musician University College, Cardiff, and later professor (as successor to David Evans (1874 - 1948), a post he held till he retired in 1945. He had graduated in music at Trinity College, Dublin, in 1921, and gained his D.Mus. degree there in 1928. He died at his home in Barry, 30 June 1960, and was buried in Merthyr Dyfan cemetery. He did not write much music, but he composed a few short pieces such as the solos
LLOYD, LUDOVIC (fl. 1573-1610), courtier, versifier, and compiler discredited by Grosart (Life of Spenser, 239). According to his own account Lloyd continued to be Sergeant-at-Arms after the accession of James I. But little is certainly known of the last years of his life, except that practically all his known verses were composed during that period. It would seem that he had, voluntarily or otherwise, retired from court, but in what circumstances it is impossible to say
LLOYD, Sir WALTER (1580 - 1662?) Llanfair Clydogau, Royalist quarters and adhering to that party. ' He became a commissioner of array for Charles I in 1642, and was knighted in 1643. He was fined £1,003 9s. 0d. by Parliament in 1647, and his estates were sequestered in 1651. Sir Walter lived to see the Restoration, but died c. 1662; Katherine Philipps ('The Matchless Orinda'), who had lived in the town of Cardigan, composed a poem in his honour. He was described
LLOYD, WILLIAM (1786 - 1852), musician Born at Rhos-goch, Llaniestyn, Llŷn, in 1786; there is a tradition that he was a cattle-drover. The family was musical, and Lloyd himself went around Llŷn holding music classes and conducting hymnody-festivals; he also gave instruction to people who visited him at his home. He composed many hymn-tunes, but the tune with which his name is most widely associated is the dignified tune now known as
LLWYD, STEPHEN (1794 - 1854), musician became precentor of Carmel Baptist chapel; he also conducted music classes in the district. His hymn-tune 'Caerllyngoed,' first appeared in Seren Gomer, June 1822; other hymn-tunes composed by him ('Abergwaun,' 'Taf,' and 'Rhondda') were published in Seren Gomer whilst a 'Carol Nadolig,' arranged by D. Emlyn Evans, appeared in Cronicl y Cerddor, December 1882. He died in April 1854, at the age of 60
LLWYD, HUMPHREY (c. 1527 - 1568), antiquary and map-maker gentility'. In a letter of 1566 Salesbury wrote of him as 'the most famous antiquarius of all our country'. In the years after his death his reputation continued to be enhanced, William Camden described him as a 'learned Briton' and elegies were composed by two bardic pupils of Gruffudd Hiraethog, Lewis ab Edward and Wiliam Cynwal. Wood's biography describes him as 'a person of great eloquence, an
LLYWARCH HEN (fl. 6th century), British prince and a hero of a cycle of Welsh tales dating from the mid-9th century , and other Welsh provinces, were descended from him through Merfyn Frych and Rhodri Mawr. Towards the middle of the 9th century, during a period of adversity for Powys, a story-teller of that province composed a cycle of tales about Llywarch and his sons. These contained englynion, which alone are extant as a result of having been copied into the Red Book of Hergest, col. 1026-49 (although a few also
LLYWELYN ab EDNYFED (fl. c. 1400-1460?), poet the same person, apparently, as one called Llywelyn ap Maredudd ab Ednyfed in some MSS. All his extant work is vaticinatory poetry. The date 1400 is given, together with one copy of a poem by him, in NLW MS 6499B; another poem, definitely composed in 1460, is attributed to him (amongst various other poets) in some MSS. Apart from the above no other dates are available.
LLYWELYN ab OWAIN ap CYNFRIG MOEL (fl. c. 1480?), poet A number of vaticinatory poems and a religious poem composed by him remain in MSS. It appears that he was the same person as Llywelyn ab Owain, a number of other vaticinatory poems by whom are to be found.

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