Dictionary of Welsh Biography

LLOYD, Sir RICHARD (1606 - 1676) Esclus, royalist and judge both Cardiff and Radnorshire, sitting for the latter till his death on 5 May 1676, when he was buried at Wrexham. Another member of the family (not to mention, for the time being, David Owen, 'Dafydd y Garreg Wen') deserves some attention. A comparison of the charts in J. E. Griffith (Pedigrees, 330, 353, 269) shows that Sir Richard Lloyd had a sister Margaret who married Richard Anwyl of Parc. Their
LLOYD, RICHARD (1595 - 1659), Royalist divine and schoolmaster 5th son of Dafydd Llwyd o'r Henblas; his mother, daughter of Richard Owen Theodor of Penmynydd (sheriff of Anglesey in 1565 and 1573), and distantly related to the royal house, is also credited with some skill in poetry. Richard matriculated from Oriel College, Oxford (3 April 1612), and was presented to the rectory of Sonning and the vicarage of Tilehurst (Berks.), taking his B.D. in 1628 (7 May
LLOYD, RICHARD (1834 - 1917), pastor of the Campbellite Church of the Disciples of Christ, Criccieth Born at Llanystumdwy, Caernarfonshire, 12 July 1834, son of Dafydd and Rebecca Llwyd. His father was a shoemaker and the pastor of the Church of the Disciples of Christ, Pen-y-maes, Criccieth; after a short time at a Llanystumdwy school Richard Lloyd was apprenticed to his father and ultimately followed him both in the pastorate and in the business. He was ordained joint pastor with William
LLOYD, RICHARD (1771 - 1834), Calvinistic Methodist minister Born at Nantdaenog, Llantrisant, Anglesey, sixth child of William Lloyd and his wife Jane - she was a daughter of the famous old dissenter William Prichard (1702 - 1773) of Clwchdernog. His paternal grandfather was David Lloyd ap Rhys (J. E. Griffith, Pedigrees, 100), and in his articles in Goleuad Cymru, Richard Lloyd used to sign himself ' Rhisiart William Dafydd.' He joined the Methodist
LLOYD, RICHARD (d. 1663), governor of Oswestry - see LLOYD, EDWARD
LLOYD, ROBERT (1716 - 1792) Plas Ashpool,, farmer and Methodist exhorter . William Richard, the exhorter sent to North Wales, is reported to have said at the Association held at Builth, 1 February 1748/9: 'There is a door open to preach the word in flintshire, great many comes to hear and behave very quiet'. Robert Llwyd was probably one of the crowd. There was one class of society in the county which vehemently opposed the new religion, and the young tenant of Tarth-y-dŵr was
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, 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

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