Dictionary of Welsh Biography

LLAWDDEN (fl. 1450), cywyddwr His cywydd to Ieuan Gwyn ap Gwilym Fwyaf shows that he was a native of Loughor, but he was known as ' Llawdden of Machynlleth.' Most of his poems were written to the families of Thomas ap Rosier of Hergest, and Phylip ap Rhys and Maredudd Fychan of Maelienydd. In the Carmarthen Eisteddfod of 1451 he is known to have accused Gruffudd ap Nicolas of being bribed to give the chair to Dafydd ab Edmwnd
LLEWELYN, MARY PENDRILL (1811 - 1874), translator and writer Williams (Pantycelyn). It is said that she also translated a number of the ballads of Dafydd Nicolas. She died 19 November 1874.
LLOYD family Dolobran, been a concubine. The heir was the poet David ap David Lloyd, a juror in Montgomeryshire from 1576 to 1594, otherwise known as Dafydd ap Dafydd Llwyd. His son JOHN LLOYD (born 1575) was also a poet. He lived at Coedcowryd, and his first wife was his second cousin, Catherine, daughter of Humphrey ap John Wyn of Dyffryn, but the wife named in his will was Elizabeth. The will was proved in 1636, and his
LLOYD, DAVID (1724 - 1779), Arian minister Hymnau a Chaniadau by Jenkin Jones, 1768, and his poems printed as Gwaith Prydyddawl Dafydd Llwyd, 1785.
LLOYD, GRIFFITH RICHARD MAETHLU (1902 - 1995), college principal and minsister (B) Fay (Tryphena) Jones, Rhianfa, Amlwch, a fellow student in Bangor. They had two sons, Dafydd and Iwan. He was ordained in Penuel Rhymney in 1935 and ministered there for twenty years. While there, he conducted extra-mural classes for the University. He was inducted as minister of Penuel Bangor in 1955 and four years later he was appointed by the Baptist College in Bangor as tutor in Greek and New
LLOYD, Sir JOHN EDWARD (1861 - 1947), historian, and first editor of Y Bywgraffiadur Cymreig a First in Honours Classical Moderations, and in 1885 he was placed in the First Class in the final examination in History. His career at Oxford was, thus, nearing its completion before the time of the famous group of Oxford Welshmen (like Owen M. Edwards who went up in October 1884), and it was over before the Dafydd ap Gwilym Society was established in 1886; but of course, he very quickly
LLOYD, Sir RICHARD (1606 - 1676) Esclus, royalist and judge The son of Evan Lloyd of Dulasau, Caernarfonshire (not of Primus Lloyd of Marrington, as in D.N.B.). His family had been settled for centuries in the neighbourhood of Penmachno, claiming descent from a bastard son of Dafydd, brother of prince Llywelyn ap Gruffydd; he was nephew to a vicar of Ruabon and first cousin to three other North Wales incumbents, and a bishop of Bangor (Humphrey Lloyd
LLOYD, RICHARD (1595 - 1659), Royalist divine and schoolmaster 5th son of Dafydd Llwyd o'r Henblas; his mother, daughter of Richard Owen Theodor of Penmynydd (sheriff of Anglesey in 1565 and 1573), and distantly related to the royal house, is also credited with some skill in poetry. Richard matriculated from Oriel College, Oxford (3 April 1612), and was presented to the rectory of Sonning and the vicarage of Tilehurst (Berks.), taking his B.D. in 1628 (7 May
LLOYD, RICHARD (1834 - 1917), pastor of the Campbellite Church of the Disciples of Christ, Criccieth Born at Llanystumdwy, Caernarfonshire, 12 July 1834, son of Dafydd and Rebecca Llwyd. His father was a shoemaker and the pastor of the Church of the Disciples of Christ, Pen-y-maes, Criccieth; after a short time at a Llanystumdwy school Richard Lloyd was apprenticed to his father and ultimately followed him both in the pastorate and in the business. He was ordained joint pastor with William
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, WILLIAM (1627 - 1717), bishop of St Asaph Born 18 August 1627, son of a royalist divine, Richard Lloyd of Sonning, grandson of an Anglesey poet, Dafydd Llwyd o'r Henblas, and member of a Welsh family that had an unprecedented number of bishops and clerics in its pedigree lines. He became Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford, M.A, in 1646, D.D. in 1667. His career during the republic was difficult and full of vicissitude; after the Restoration
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

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