Dictionary of Welsh Biography

LLOYD, Sir JOHN CONWAY (1878 - 1954), public figure Born 18 April 1878, in Dinas Mansion, Brecknockshire, the only son of Thomas Conway Lloyd and his wife Katherine Eliza Campbell-Davys of Neuadd-Fawr, near Llandovery. His mother died when he was only four years old and he lost his father in 1893. He was educated at Broadstairs School, Eton, and Christ Church, Oxford. On a journey to the continent in 1899, he met Marion Clive Jenkins at Florence
LLOYD, Sir JOHN EDWARD (1861 - 1947), historian, and first editor of Y Bywgraffiadur Cymreig Born 5 May 1861 in Liverpool, son of Edward Lloyd, J.P., and Mary Lloyd (née Jones). The family's ancestral home was Penygarnedd, near Pen-y-bont-fawr in Montgomeryshire, and J.E. Lloyd never lost his feeling for this background nor his affection for the area. He was, at first, intended for the Congregationalist ministry, and for a considerable time he was a lay preacher in the denomination. It
LLOYD, JOHN MEIRION (1913 - 1998), missionary and author , coming out in 1956. He also wrote about the missionary David Evan Jones (1870-1947) under the title Arloesydd Lushai (Pioneer of Lushai) published in 1958. In 1964, he returned to live in Allerton, Liverpool and took up a post as representative of the Bible Society in Merseyside, Wirral, West Lancashire and the Isle of Man. He became a member of Heathfield Road Welsh Chapel, where his brother, Reverend
LLOYD, JOHN MORGAN (1880 - 1960), musician Born 19 August 1880, at Pentre, Rhondda, Glamorganshire, of a musical and religious family. His father, John Lloyd (an outfitter, who lived at Glan-y-don, Barry, and died 1910) was of Montgomeryshire stock and was one of the chief founders of Penuel Welsh church (Presb.), Barry. His mother was a native of Treforest, grandchild of Benjamin Williams, minister of Saron, Pontypridd, and she was the
LLOYD, LUDOVIC (fl. 1573-1610), courtier, versifier, and compiler Twyne's translation of Lhuyd's Breviary of Britaine, 1573, William Blandy's The Castle or picture of pollicy, 1581, and Henry Perry's Egluryn Phraethineb, 1595. In the same way, contemporary poets like Thomas Churchyard and Edward Grant contributed verses to Lloyd's work, The Pilgrimage of Princes, 1573. In B.M. Add. MS. 14965 (6) there is a long eulogy, in twenty-six verses, of queen Elizabeth, with a
LLOYD, MARGARET (1709 - 1762), one of the original members of the Moravian congregation she married (27 August 1744) Thomas Moore. Rebelling against German autocracy in the Yorkshire mission, she and her husband were deprived of their offices, and later on left the Brethren's church, but eventually rejoined it. She died at Leeds 8 September 1762, and was buried in the Brethren's ground at Fulneck.
LLOYD, MEREDITH (fl. 1655-1677), lawyer and antiquary He was a native of Welshpool and a kinsman of Robert Vaughan of Hengwrt. He was himself a collector of manuscripts, and is said to have been the owner of the manuscripts of Thomas Wiliems of Trefriw, which he presented to Robert Vaughan. The authority for this statement is the author of the catalogue of the Hengwrt library in Cambrian Register, iii, who cites letters and papers which he had
LLOYD, OWEN MORGAN (1910 - 1980), minister and poet train for the ministry. He contributed to the social and cultural life of the University College of North Wales, including sports, and won the chairs of the Bangor Students Eisteddfod and the Inter-collegiate Eisteddfod. Whilst a student he met Gwyneth Jones (1912-2000 from Llanrug and they married in 1938. They had three children, Gwyn, Rhys and Nest. In 1935 O. M. Lloyd was ordained minister of
LLOYD, Sir RICHARD (1606 - 1676) Esclus, royalist and judge efforts for the defence of Chester during the early months of 1643 and of Denbighshire when invasion was threatened next summer, after which] he was made governor of Holt castle, holding out till, on 13 January 1647, he surrendered to Thomas Mytton on terms which permitted Lloyd to go abroad with £300 out of his personal estate, and his family to retain lands to the same value. His intransigence towards
LLOYD, ROBERT (1716 - 1792) Plas Ashpool,, farmer and Methodist exhorter South Wales in 1759-1760; and this was the beginning of Methodism in the Vale of Clwyd. It was at Tŷ Modlen that John Owen (1733 - 1776) of Berthen Gron was converted, that Flintshire Methodism started, and that Edward Williams of Glan Clwyd (1750 - 1813) heard Daniel Rowland preach, and was pierced to the quick. Robert Llwyd and Edward Parry of Bryn Bugad (1723 - 1786) were friends and worked
LLOYD, ROBERT (Llwyd o'r Bryn; 1888 - 1961), eisteddfodwr, entertainer and farmer Born in Penybryn, Bethel, Llandderfel, Merionethshire, 29 February 1888, the youngest son of John and Winifred Lloyd. He was baptized by Michael Daniel Jones. He was educated at Sarnau school and after working for a period with his father on the farm, he married in 1913 Annie Williams, Derwgoed, Llandderfel. Thereafter he farmed Derwgoed until he retired in 1944. In this connection, he was one of
LLOYD, SIMON (1756 - 1836), Methodist cleric (Lloyd) was succeeded as ' matron ' at Trevecka by her sister HANNAH BOWEN (1729 - 1805), who remained there till Mrs. Harris's death, and afterwards (1771) became ' matron ' of lady Huntingdon's college at Trevecka. Later, she married a William Powell of Wrexham, and died at Pwllheli. Simon and Sarah Lloyd had six children. The fourth of these was LYDIA LLOYD, who married Thomas Foulkes. The eldest

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