Dictionary of Welsh Biography

LLOYD, ROBERT (Llwyd o'r Bryn; 1888 - 1961), eisteddfodwr, entertainer and farmer the first in Wales to stimulate interest in the experimental immunisation of cattle against tuberculosis (see Richard Phillips, Pob un a'i gwys (1970), 86). Throughout most of his life he acted as compère and adjudicator at countless eisteddfodau in north and mid- Wales; he was one of the promoters of the first national eisteddfod held by Urdd Gobaith Cymru at Corwen in 1929. Between 1938 and 1950
LLOYD, SIMON (1756 - 1836), Methodist cleric printed in Cylchgrawn Cymdeithas Hanes y Methodistiaid Calfinaidd, x, 30-3). Sarah Bowen was of the family of Tyddyn, Llanidloes, well-known in the annals of Montgomeryshire Methodism - see Richard Bennett in Cylchgrawn Cymdeithas Hanes y Methodistiaid Calfinaidd, viii, 57-62, and frequent references in his Meth. Trefaldwyn Uchaf, and consult the index to John Wesley's Journals, ed. Curnock. Sarah Bowen
LLOYD, THOMAS RICHARD (Yr Estyn; 1820 - 1891), cleric
LLOYD, WILLIAM (1786 - 1852), musician ' Meirionydd,' which appears not only in all the Welsh hymnals, but also in such collections as Songs of Praise. In a manuscript book which belonged to Lloyd himself it is called ' Berth,' and it was under that name that it first appeared in print, in Caniadaeth Seion (1840) published by Richard Mills. Lloyd died, according to his tombstone in Llaniestyn churchyard, on 7 June 1852, aged 66.
LLOYD, Sir WILLIAM (1782 - 1857), soldier and one of the first Europeans to reach the peak of any Himalayan snow-capped mountain Born 29 December 1782, eldest son of Richard Lloyd, a banker of Wrexham, Denbighshire, and his wife Mary, and great-grandson of Thomas Lloyd the lexicologist. He was educated in Ruthin School and then, between 1798 and 1825, he served in the army of the East India Company, attaining the rank of major in the Bengal Infantry. He was captain of the Residency Guard at Nagpur between 1806 and 1820. He
LLOYD, WILLIAM (1901 - 1967), tutor and setter of words to cerdd dant and composer of harp airs Born 14 February 1901 in Llansannan, Denbighshire, son of Richard Lloyd and Margaret his wife. The family moved to Glan Conwy when he was very young, and he was brought up there. He came to be known as William Lloyd, Cyffordd Llandudno, since he spent most of his life at Llandudno Junction working as a fireman on the railway and later as a train driver. His musical talent was fostered from an
LLOYD, WILLIAM (1717 - 1777), cleric and translator Lloyd's MS. sermons in U.C.N.W. (Bangor MS. 5322) contains a note by Ieuan asking Lloyd to fill his place on two Sundays at Llanllechid. Many years later (1767) the poet, in a letter to Edward Richard (NLW MS 11729E), testifies that Lloyd was a poet in Greek, Latin, and English (there is in fact verse of his, including an autobiography, in Panton MS. 2), a skilful player on the spinet and the flute, and
LLOYD, WILLIAM (1627 - 1717), bishop of St Asaph Born 18 August 1627, son of a royalist divine, Richard Lloyd of Sonning, grandson of an Anglesey poet, Dafydd Llwyd o'r Henblas, and member of a Welsh family that had an unprecedented number of bishops and clerics in its pedigree lines. He became Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford, M.A, in 1646, D.D. in 1667. His career during the republic was difficult and full of vicissitude; after the Restoration
LLOYD-OWEN, DAVID CHARLES (1843 - 1925), eye specialist historical and genealogical matters relating to Wales (and particularly, Montgomeryshire) with many of his Welsh contemporaries, particularly with Richard Bennett; he was also a member of several Welsh societies - there are contributions by him in Montgomeryshire Collections, published by the Powys-land Club. His manuscript collections (now NLW MS 5986-6023) give some indication of the nature and scope of
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 , augmented, and continued … by David Powel (1584) David Powel; The Treasury of Health (posthumously published in 1585); a translation of Thesaurus Pauperum Petri Hispani, with a contribution by Llwyd entitled, The causes and signs of every Disease, with Aphorisms of Hippocrates. Llwyd's introduction to Ortelius was brought about by his merchant friend, Sir Richard Clough, also of Denbigh, who lived for a
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

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