Dictionary of Welsh Biography

LLOYD, THOMAS (1765 - 1789), Unitarian minister and Academy tutor
LLOYD, THOMAS (Crych Elen; 1841 - 1909), musician
LLOYD, THOMAS (1673? - 1734), cleric and lexicologist son of Thomas Lloyd, attorney at law at Wrexham, of the family of Plas Madog, Llanfair Talhaearn, Denbighshire; the mother was a Myddelton. On 25 February 1688/9, 'aged 15,' he matriculated from Jesus College, Oxford (B.A. 1692, M.A. 1695); he took orders, served as curate in the Wrexham district, was tutor at Chirk castle, and became chaplain to Mary Myddelton of Croesnewydd, who bequeathed Plas
LLOYD, THOMAS ALWYN (1881 - 1960), architect and town planner Born 11 August 1881 in Liverpool, the son of Thomas and Elizabeth Jones Lloyd. The family came from a strong nonconformist tradition in Denbighshire, and Lloyd inherited a deep love for rural Wales and for Welsh culture. He was educated at Liverpool College and at the University of Liverpool where he studied architecture in the university's Architecture School. From 1907 to 1912, he was an
LLOYD, Sir THOMAS DAVIES (1820 - 1877), baronet, landowner, and politician Born 21 May 1820, eldest son of Thomas Lloyd of Bronwydd, Cardiganshire, (high sheriff in 1814), and Anne Davies, daughter of John Thomas of Llwydcoed and Llety-mawr, Carmarthenshire. He was educated at Harrow and Christ Church, Oxford. He married, December 1846, Henrietta Mary, daughter of George Reid of Bunker's Hill, Jamaica, and Watlington, Oxfordshire, by Louisa, daughter of Sir Charles
LLOYD, THOMAS RICHARD (Yr Estyn; 1820 - 1891), cleric
LLOYD, Sir WALTER (1580 - 1662?) Llanfair Clydogau, Royalist The son of John Lloyd, high sheriff of Cardiganshire (1602), he was educated at Lincoln College Oxford. His wife was a daughter of Thomas Pryse of Glanfread, Cardiganshire. He was high sheriff of Cardiganshire in 1621. As M.P. for Cardiganshire, 1640, he voted against the impeachment of Strafford. In 1644 he was disabled by Parliament ' for deserting the Service of the House, being in the King's
LLOYD, Sir WILLIAM (1782 - 1857), soldier and one of the first Europeans to reach the peak of any Himalayan snow-capped mountain Born 29 December 1782, eldest son of Richard Lloyd, a banker of Wrexham, Denbighshire, and his wife Mary, and great-grandson of Thomas Lloyd the lexicologist. He was educated in Ruthin School and then, between 1798 and 1825, he served in the army of the East India Company, attaining the rank of major in the Bengal Infantry. He was captain of the Residency Guard at Nagpur between 1806 and 1820. He
LLOYD, WILLIAM (1901 - 1967), tutor and setter of words to cerdd dant and composer of harp airs Born 14 February 1901 in Llansannan, Denbighshire, son of Richard Lloyd and Margaret his wife. The family moved to Glan Conwy when he was very young, and he was brought up there. He came to be known as William Lloyd, Cyffordd Llandudno, since he spent most of his life at Llandudno Junction working as a fireman on the railway and later as a train driver. His musical talent was fostered from an
LLOYD, WILLIAM (1717 - 1777), cleric and translator mother was Elizabeth Hughes of Tre'r-dryw; he had (says William Morris) a full brother who was a ship's captain (perhaps the ' Owen Lloyd ' who was christened a year before him at Flint); he had a half-brother; he was nephew of Owen Lloyd, chancellor of Bangor; and he was cousin to William Jones of Trefollwyn (fl. 1718-79), one of the earliest Methodists of Anglesey. Though the Cymmrodorion lists give
LLOYD, WILLIAM (1741 - 1808), Calvinistic Methodist exhorter Born in 1741, son of Dafydd Llwyd of Blaen-clawdd, Caeo, Carmarthenshire. When he was 18 years of age he heard a sermon preached by Peter Williams, which made a deep impression upon him, but it was a year later, after listening to Evan Jones of Lledrod, that he was completely converted. He joined the Independent church at Crug-y-bar, but in 1760 he and a number of other members left the church
LLOYD, WILLIAM (1627 - 1717), bishop of St Asaph bishop of St Asaph in 1680. It is true he held conferences with the leading Dissenters of his diocese (1680-2), with John Evans the Independent, Thomas Lloyd the Quaker, Philip Henry and James Owen, the Presbyterians, but his letters to archbishop Sancroft prove that he meant such meetings to have only one conclusion; that he abated not one jot of his high Anglican pretensions; his letters to lord

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