Dictionary of Welsh Biography

LLOYD, JOHN AMBROSE (1815 - 1874), musician Liverpool, John Ambrose Lloyd, like his brother, attended the Welsh church of Dewi Sant, but when his brother left for Blackburn (1835) he joined the Tabernacle Congregational church where his cousin, the Rev. William Ambrose (Emrys), was a member. Soon after he had joined this church he became its precentor. In 1835 he married Catherine, daughter of Edward and Elizabeth Evans, members of Tabernacle
LLOYD, JOHN MORGAN (1880 - 1960), musician for a short while in his father's shop but his heart was not in his work. Whilst still a school pupil he was chosen to be accompanist for Barry District Glee Society and in 1900 he was accompanist for the Royal Welsh Choir at the Paris Exhibition. He sat the first Oxford music examinations and having attracted the attention of David Evans (1874 - 1948) he decided to study music with him at the
LLOYD, LEWIS WILLIAM (1939 - 1997), historian and author College of Wales, Aberystwyth (LLB, 1960 with first-class hons.; he was awarded the 'Sir Samuel Evans Prize'), Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge (LLB, 1962; this degree was redesignated LLM in 1985), and the Australian National University, Canberra (Ph.D., 1966 for a thesis on the subject 'The sources and development of Australian mining law'). He was a lecturer in the department of law at the
LLOYD, ROBERT (Llwyd o'r Bryn; 1888 - 1961), eisteddfodwr, entertainer and farmer and traditions that are associated with Welsh life at its best. In 1966 a volume of his letters was published, Diddordebau, which was edited by his nephew Trebor Lloyd Evans, and a collection of his articles for Welsh Farm News and other periodicals were published in Adlodd Llwyd o'r Bryn by his daughter, Dwysan Rowlands, in 1983. After retiring he visited many places to give lectures on country
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, WILLIAM (1901 - 1967), tutor and setter of words to cerdd dant and composer of harp airs early age by Edwin Evans in Salem Chapel, Ffordd Las, and his interest was further developed under the influence of the Rev. D.H. Rees. In time, he gained the grade of A.T.S.C. He soon began to conduct choirs and local parties, and also the railway choir which competed many times in the national railway festivals in Birmingham. In the 1940s he and his colleague, Huw Hughes, began to take a serious
LLOYD, WILLIAM (1717 - 1777), cleric and translator incumbent was Edward Bennett, master of Friars School at Bangor. The two men were doubly related by marriage; it was, therefore, natural that Lloyd should become (4 February 1748) usher at Friars, with the attached curacy of Llandygai (4 August); there is a letter of his from Llandygai in Welch Piety, 1750-1 54. There, he was neighbour to Evan Evans (Ieuan Fardd, 1731 - 1788) at Llanllechid; a volume of
LLOYD, WILLIAM (1627 - 1717), bishop of St Asaph he was promoted from one high office to another, became a prebendary of S. Paul's, chaplain to the princess Mary, and preached the funeral sermon, alive with anti-Popery, of Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey (1678). He was Protestant of Protestants and an uncompromising Anglican, as was witnessed when he became archdeacon of Merioneth in 1668, dean of Bangor in 1672, and especially when he was appointed
LLOYD-JONES, DAVID MARTYN (1899 - 1981), minister and theologian Martyn Lloyd-Jones was born in Cardiff, the second of three sons born to Henry Lloyd-Jones and Magdalene or 'Maggie' Lloyd-Jones (née Evans), on 20 December 1899. The family home was in Donald Street, Cathays, and the father was a grocer by trade. Because of the father's health, the family moved from Cardiff to Llangeitho during the spring of 1906, to keep a general store, which included the sale
LLWYD, HUW (Huw Llwyd o Gynfal; 1568? - 1630?), soldier and bard to Edmund Prys). In one cywydd he asks Thomas Prys, of Plas Iolyn, Denbighshire, for a couple of hounds; see also a cywydd by Hugh Salesbury who asks Edward Lloyd, S. Asaph, to let Huw Llwyd have a greyhound cub this was on 6 October 1606. A medical treatise in the hand of Ellis Wynne ('Y Bardd Cwsc') in Peniarth MS 123 is taken from a MS. belonging to Huw Llwyd, who appears to have had some skill
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
LLYWELYN-WILLIAMS, ALUN (1913 - 1988), poet and literary critic the neologisms of the time, and thus he made a practical contribution to the modernisation of the language. During his time at the BBC he worked with some of the pioneers of Welsh broadcasting such as Sam Jones, Geraint Dyfnallt Owen, Dafydd Gruffydd (the son of his former Welsh lecturer, W. J. Gruffydd), Elwyn Evans (who wrote the volume about him in the 'Writers of Wales' series in 1991), and

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