Dictionary of Welsh Biography

LLOYD, HUMPHREY (1610 - 1689), bishop of Bangor Born at Bod-y-fudden, Trawsfynydd, July or August 1610, third son of Richard Lloyd, D.D., (1573/4–1647?) vicar of Ruabon, and Jane, (died in or after 1648), daughter of Rhydderch Hughes of Maesypandy, and grandson of Howel Lloyd of Dulasau, Penmachno. He matriculated from Jesus College, Oxford, 25 January 1627/8, but graduated from Oriel College, 1629. He proceeded M.A. in 1635 and was created
LLOYD, ISAAC SAMUEL (Glan Rhyddallt; 1875 - 1961), quarryman, poet and writer Born 29 June 1875 at Tŷ Newydd, Clegyr, Llanberis (the original name of the house was Penrallt), the son of William Lloyd and his wife Mary Hughes. He was educated at Llanberis elementary school, but he had little opportunity for further schooling because his mother died when he was only eight years old and he worked, from that time until he was sixty, in the slate quarries. He married Margaret
LLOYD, ROBERT (1716 - 1792) Plas Ashpool,, farmer and Methodist exhorter one of the first to suffer by being ejected from his farm. The arch-enemy of the new sect was the sheriff, Hugh Hughes of Coed-y-brain - his monument in Ysgeifiog churchyard records his zeal in persecuting the wayward Methodists. In the spring of 1749 Robert Llwyd, accompanied by his wife and one small child, moved to Plas Ashpool in the parish of Llandyrnog in the Vale of Clwyd. There is no
LLOYD, WILLIAM (1901 - 1967), tutor and setter of words to cerdd dant and composer of harp airs early age by Edwin Evans in Salem Chapel, Ffordd Las, and his interest was further developed under the influence of the Rev. D.H. Rees. In time, he gained the grade of A.T.S.C. He soon began to conduct choirs and local parties, and also the railway choir which competed many times in the national railway festivals in Birmingham. In the 1940s he and his colleague, Huw Hughes, began to take a serious
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
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
MACDONALD, GORDON (first Baron MACDONALD of GWAENYSGOR), (1888 - 1966), politician Born 27 May 1888 at Gwaenysgor, Prestatyn, Flintshire, son of Thomas Macdonald and Ellen (née Hughes), but the family soon moved to Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancashire, where he was brought up in a Welsh -speaking home. He left S. Luke's Elementary School, Stubshaw Cross, at the age of 13 and worked as a miner until the beginning of World War I, apart from a period as a student at Ruskin College
MADRYN family Madryn, Llŷn awkward pistols, readers of the Gwydir Papers will know how well Sir Thomas, expert opportunist as he was, had prepared for coming events by diplomatic kindnesses to Royalists in the period 1658-1660). His son, another THOMAS MADRYN, died in 1688; he was followed by his brother WILLIAM MADRYN, who sold the Madryn lands to Owen Hughes, the rich attorney of Beaumaris; the Sidney Lewis of 1763 was a
MATHIAS, WILLIAM JAMES (1934 - 1992), composer and teacher William Mathias was born on 1 November 1934 in Whitland. His father, James Hughes Mathias (1893-1969), was a history teacher at Whitland Grammar School and his mother Marian (née Evans, 1896-1980) was an organist and pianist. At the age of six he began to take piano lessons with David Lloyd Phillips of Llanfyrnach, and it was to him that Mathias dedicated his sonata for piano, op.23. In 1952 he
MATTHEWS, JOHN HOBSON (Mab Cernyw; 1858 - 1914), Roman Catholic historian, archivist and solicitor his examination of the family muniments of the Vaughans of Courtfield, a Herefordshire Catholic family (the muniments are now in N.L.W.). At the time of his death he was co-operating in the work of continuing Duncombe's History of Herefordshire. He married, 1892, Alice Mary Gwyn-Hughes; they had four sons and two daughters. He died at Ealing, 30 January 1914. NLW MS 2851E-2853E contain some typical
MEREDITH, JOHN ELLIS (1904 - 1981), minister (Presbyterian Church of Wales) and author in philosophy in 1928 and then proceeded to study theology at Oxford University in 1928, where he was a member of Jesus College, sharing rooms with T. Rowland Hughes, who became a lifelong friend. J. E. Meredith served as Secretary of the Dafydd ap Gwilym Society and he made an important contribution to the Welsh life of the University and the city. He graduated in 1930 with Distinction and took
MILLINGCHAMP, BENJAMIN (1756 - 1829), naval chaplain and collector of Oriental manuscripts chaplain on board the ' Superbe,' the flagship of admiral Sir Edward Hughes, which sailed for India early in 1779. Then followed eighteen years in foreign service, Millingchamp leaving the fleet in July 1782 to become chaplain at Fort S. George, Madras. At Madras he started to learn Persian, becoming proficient in the language and collecting Persian and other oriental books and manuscripts (in N.L.W

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