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 ); Commentarioli Descriptionis Britannicae Fragmentum (Cologne, 1572), translated into English by Thomas Twyne as The Breuiary of Britayne (1573); an English translation of the chronicle of Wales ascribed to Caradoc of Llancarvan; an enlarged version of a tract by Sir John Price of Brecon, entitled The Description of Cambria, which became the basis of The Historie of Cambria now called Wales … Corrected
LLWYD, RICHARD (Bard of Snowdon; 1752 - 1835), poet and authority on Welsh heraldry and genealogy instrumental in raising a monument to David Hughes, founder of the free school at which he had been educated; he failed in his efforts to erect a memorial to Owen Jones (Owain Myfyr). He had throughout life been interested in books, manuscripts, and records of the assistance which he gave to such writers as Sir Richard Colt Hoare, Richard Fenton, Peter Roberts, was duly acknowledged. He came to be considered
LLWYD, STEPHEN (1794 - 1854), musician Born 1794 at Llystyn-bach, Nevern, Pembrokeshire, the son of Joseph and Elizabeth Lloyd. He was given some education and was then brought to his father's trade of tailoring. His music instructor was Dafydd Siencyn Morgan. He settled at Fishguard, was appointed precentor at the Baptist chapel there, and soon became known throughout the county as a musician. In 1840 he moved to Pontypridd, where he
LLYWARCH HEN (fl. 6th century), British prince and a hero of a cycle of Welsh tales dating from the mid-9th century appear in Dwnn (Visitations) and the descent from him of the leading families of Penllyn and the surrounding country, together with the legend of his burial in Llanfor, and the association of his name with the old remains there and elsewhere in Wales. The unravelling of the recorded facts concerning the historical Llywarch from these legendary accretions is the work of Sir Ifor Williams, on whose
LLYWELYN ap GWILYM ap RHYS (fl. 16th century), poet Some examples of his work remain in MSS. These include an elegy to the last Sir William Griffith of Penrhyn (NLW MS 5273D (78b)); Swansea MS. 1 (246), a poem on Christ's image at Bangor, NLW MS 3048D (72), and, probably, the poem which is found in Cardiff MSS. 7 (421), 64 (658), 65 (64), and Cwrtmawr MS 23B (162b).
LLYWELYN GOCH Y DANT (fl. 1470-1471), bard He took the part of the Tir Iarll bards in the controversy which followed Hywel ap Dafydd ap Ieuan ap Rhys's elegy upon the death of Hywel Swrdwal about 1470 and in his contribution to this contention he names eight contemporary Glamorgan bards, including himself. He eulogised Sir Roger Vaughan of Tretower at the height of his power, and wrote his elegy when he was beheaded by Jasper Tudor, earl
LLYWELYN-WILLIAMS, ALUN (1913 - 1988), poet and literary critic honoured by his alma mater, University College of Wales Cardiff, which made him a fellow; he received a D.Litt. from the University of Wales and the Main Poetry Prize of the Arts Council of Wales for his volume Y Golau yn y Gwyll in 1980. His poems were translated into various languages: German, Danish, French, English, Chinese and Japanese. The Light in the Gloom, Joseph P. Clancy's translation of Y
LOCKLEY, RONALD MATHIAS (1903 - 2000), farmer, naturalist, conservationist and author . Unfortunately the wild rabbit population recovered and by 1934 the Lockleys decided that the best source of income would be his writing. There were two further attempts to reduce the rabbit population in the late 1930s, firstly and unsuccessfully, through the release of the myxoma virus by the physiologist Sir Charles Martin; secondly and relatively successfully, through the blowing of a cyanide compound as
LORT family Stackpole, (who lived at Prickaston or Prickeston, near Castlemartin church - see Fenton, Pembrokeshire, 1903 ed., 223; today only a farmhouse), and SAMPSON, of East Moor, near Manorbier, who married a daughter of Sir John Philipps of Picton. All three 'trimmed' dexterously during the Civil Wars. In 1642 Roger was on the Parliament's Militia Commission for Pembrokeshire, but in the same year he and Sampson were
LOUGHER, Sir LEWIS (1871 - 1955), industrialist and politician
LYNN-THOMAS, Sir JOHN (1861 - 1939), surgeon

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