Dictionary of Welsh Biography

LLOYD, DAVID TECWYN (1914 - 1992), literary critic, author, educationalist a brother to Robert (Bob) Lloyd, and Reverend Trebor Lloyd Evans, Morriston, and Aled Lloyd Davies were his cousins. Tecwyn Lloyd claimed that he could trace his family back to Rhirid Flaidd. After his early education at Llawrybetws primary school where the headteacher, Rhys Gruffydd, was, he said, an important influence on him, he proceeded to Bala Boys' Grammar School (Ysgol Tytandomen). After
LLOYD, EDWARD (c. 1570 - 1648?) Llwyn-y-maen, as a barrister before the Council at Ludlow nor from acting as steward in Shropshire to lord chancellor Ellesmere and to Thomas Howard, earl of Suffolk. The removal of his patron the lord chancellor in 1617 made him more vulnerable, and in July 1619 he got into trouble for promoting a petition to displace Sir Francis Eure from his judgeship of the North Wales circuit in favour of a fellow Inner
LLOYD, EVAN (fl. 1833-1859), printers and publishers the (monthly) newspaper to Cronicl yr Oes; under him and his successor, Hugh Pugh (1803 - 1868), it was strongly Radical. Towards the end of 1838 the brothers parted company; John Lloyd moved to Holywell, and the last two numbers of the Cronicl (December 1838 and January 1839) were published there by ' Lloyd and Evans ' - the new partner was P. M. Evans. In 1848, John Lloyd left Holywell for
LLOYD, EVAN (1764 - 1847), Unitarian Baptist minister this family for 120 years, with a break of only five years; other members of the family figure in the annals of other Unitarian churches. The two chapels are still in use - they, and the chapel at Pant Teg (Carmarthenshire - see under William Thomas, died 1813), are now the only ' General Baptist ' chapels in Wales.
LLOYD, EVAN (1728 - 1801) Maes-y-porth,, antiquary and poet Son of Lewis Lloyd of Maes-y-porth, attorney at law, and Anne, his wife, he was christened at Llangeinwen, 26 May 1728. On 11 January 1774 he married Margaret Thomas, at Llansadwrn, Anglesey, parish church. In 1793 he served as high sheriff for Anglesey. He took a keen interest in Welsh literature and genealogy, and Wynnstay MS. 2, NLW MS 560B, NLW MS 1256D, NLW MS 1258C, and NLW MS 1260B, and
LLOYD, HANNIBAL EVANS (1771 - 1847), author and translator
LLOYD, HUMPHREY (1610 - 1689), bishop of Bangor is in this dispute as well as in that over the Whitford leases that the bishop's ability and pertinacity as a controversialist are seen to advantage. He had no sympathy with the work of Thomas Gouge and the 'Welsh Trust,' and ridiculed the campaign to collect subscriptions for a new Welsh edition of the Bible. Humphrey Humphreys says that Gouge particularly incensed Lloyd by removing the name of
LLOYD, ISAAC SAMUEL (Glan Rhyddallt; 1875 - 1961), quarryman, poet and writer
LLOYD, JACOB YOUDE WILLIAM (Chevalier Lloyd; 1816 - 1887), historian and antiquary son of Jacob William Hinde of Langham Hall, Essex, D.L., and of Harriet, his wife, daughter and co-heiress of the Rev. Thomas Youde of Clochfaen, Montgomeryshire, and Plasmadog. He was educated at Wadham College, Oxford, was ordained deacon, December 1839, and became curate of Llandinam, Montgomeryshire. At the end of a year he was ordained priest, but resigned some time between the end of
LLOYD, JOHN (d. 1679), Roman Catholic priest neighbourhood of Llandyfodwg, Glamorganshire. During the Titus Oates Plot agitation he was arrested on 20 November 1678, at the house of Mr. Turberville of Pen-llîn, Glamorganshire. He was imprisoned in Cardiff gaol with Father Philip Evans, S.J., and with him was sentenced to death on 9 May 1679, and executed on 22 July 1679.
LLOYD, JOHN (1885 - 1964), schoolmaster, author and local historian translation of the Mabinogion into English since Lady Charlotte Guest's version in 1838-49). Their translation was critically reviewed at the time by scholars such as W.J. Gruffydd and J. Lloyd-Jones but nevertheless it remained a useful work until the appearance in 1948 of a new translation by Gwyn Jones and Thomas Jones. He also published two school textbooks in Welsh entitled: Detholiad o draethodau
LLOYD, JOHN (1733 - 1793), cleric and antiquary of Nannerch, but he still resided at Caerwys, placing a curate at Nannerch until 1778, when the living at Nannerch was given to another man (Thomas, A History of the Diocese of St. Asaph, ii, 421) and Lloyd became rector of Caerwys (Thomas, ii, 12). He died 22 May 1793, and was buried at Caerwys. His wife (1769) was Martha (died 1810), daughter of Francis Williams; of their several children, one

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