Dictionary of Welsh Biography

LLOYD family Rhiwaedog, Rhiwedog, Brwynog, Siôn Phylip, Richard Phylip, Richard Cynwal, Wiliam Cynwal, Rhys Cain, Wiliam Llŷn, Siôn Tudur, Simwnt Fychan, Tomos Prys, Huw Arwystli, Lewis Dwnn, Tudur Aled, Lewis Môn, Lewis Menai, Owain Gwynedd, besides other lesserknown bards. Even the learned Dr. John Davies of Mallwyd wrote poems to members of this family. (For the 'bardic controversy' between Richard Phylip and Richard Cynwal
LLOYD, DAVID (1724 - 1779), Arian minister Born at Coedlannau-fawr, Llanwenog, Cardiganshire. His father was descended from David ap Llewelyn Lloyd, lord of Castellhywel, Cardiganshire, who was of the lineage of the 'lord' Rhys. His mother was Hester, sister of Jenkin Jones (1700? - 1742) of Llwynrhydowen. He attended the school kept by John Evans (1680 - 1741) of Llanwenog. He never went to the Carmarthen Academy, but Thomas Morgan (1720
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, Sir JOHN EDWARD (1861 - 1947), historian, and first editor of Y Bywgraffiadur Cymreig other researchers, but the body of the work remains authoritative to this day. It brought him the degree of D. Litt., Oxford, 1918. In 1930 he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (F.B.A.), and it was to that body that he delivered his Sir John Rhŷs Lecture on The Welsh Chronicles, which was published in 1930 - a notable example of the nature of its author's mind. Almost to the end, Lloyd
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, RICHARD (1771 - 1834), Calvinistic Methodist minister Born at Nantdaenog, Llantrisant, Anglesey, sixth child of William Lloyd and his wife Jane - she was a daughter of the famous old dissenter William Prichard (1702 - 1773) of Clwchdernog. His paternal grandfather was David Lloyd ap Rhys (J. E. Griffith, Pedigrees, 100), and in his articles in Goleuad Cymru, Richard Lloyd used to sign himself ' Rhisiart William Dafydd.' He joined the Methodist
LLOYD-JONES, JOHN (1885 - 1956), scholar and poet value for the interpretation of the literature of the medieval period, and it is a great pity that the author's scheme of work did not allow him to complete the task. His Sir John Rhŷs Memorial Lecture delivered to the British Academy in 1948, ' The Court Poets of the Welsh Princes ', was the result of the detailed knowledge of the poetry which he had gained by collecting material for the glossary
LLWYD, HUW (Huw Llwyd o Gynfal; 1568? - 1630?), soldier and bard His home was Cynfal Fawr, in the parish of Maentwrog, Merioneth. His father was Dafydd Llwyd ap Howel ap Rhys. It is known that Huw Llwyd and his brother Owen bought much land in that neighbourhood. He fought in France and Holland in a Welsh regiment raised to fight the armies of Spain in the Low Countries. It is thought that he built the present Cynfal house; the poet Huw Machno has a cywydd c
LLYWARCH ap LLYWELYN (fl. 1173-1220) Gwynedd, court-poet is the pride, the unity, and the success of Wales. Llywarch also sang the praises of several princes subordinate to Llywelyn in Gwynedd and Powys, and likewise to Rhys Gryg in the South. The references to Wiston, Narberth, and Haverfordwest in the poem to Rhys suggest 1220 rather than 1215. As a result of the newly-found Welsh unity the poet finds a fresh delight in stringing together place-names
LLYWELYN ap GRUFFYDD (d. 1317), nobleman, soldier and rebel martyr He is described as son of Gruffydd, not Rhys (a patronymic which has hitherto caused some confusion), in a letter announcing his capture in 1316. Record evidence reveals him as a man of culture with unusual literary interests for a person of his class and period, possessing considerable property and personal wealth in Senghenydd and Miscin - ' a great man and powerful in his own country,' as a
LLYWELYN ap GUTUN (fl. c. 1480), poet A number of his poems remain in MSS., including an elegy composed to his son Gruffudd, 'begging' poems requesting a dog, some goats, and spectacles, a satire or lampoon addressed to the dean of Bangor (who had instructed Huw Lewis, Y Chwaen, to imprison the poet, rather than allow him to make a 'begging' journey or cymortha in Bodeon and Aberdaron), and another satire to dean Richard Kyffin, Rhys
LLYWELYN ap GWILYM ap RHYS (fl. 16th century), poet

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