Dictionary of Welsh Biography

LLEWELLYN, Sir DAVID RICHARD (1879 - 1940), coalowner claimed that he owned or managed about 1/7 of the south Wales coalfield. He played an important part in the development of management methods in the coal industry and the growth of amalgamated companies. He was an influential figure in the regional Coalowners Association (especially about 1925-30) and he was acknowledged as a leader with moderate views. Both he and his brother W.M. Llewellyn mixed with
LLEWELYN, SION (1690 - 1776), poet at Cefn, nearer to the home of Siôn, in 1747, with Siôn as one of the prominent promoters, and first deacon. The poet, a blacksmith by trade (although one manuscript calls him a weaver), died 1 January 1776, and was buried in the grounds of Hen Dŷ Cwrdd, Cefn. A marble memorial tablet was unveiled at the old chapel by his descendants on 17 August 1947. His grandson was William Harri, of Garw Dyle
LLOYD family Rhiwaedog, Rhiwedog, ancestor MEREDYDD AB IEUAN AP MEREDYDD with MARGARET, eldest daughter and coheiress of EINION AB ITHEL of Rhiwaedog, Esquire of the Body of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, in A.D. 1395, and high sheriff of Meirionydd for life. He was [according to Lloyd ] the son of ITHEL AB GWRGENEU FYCHAN AB GWRGENEU AP MADOG AP RHIRYD FLAIDD.' The deputy-herald Lewis Dwnn, when he visited Rhiwaedog on 1 August 1592
LLOYD family Maesyfelin, lifetime. He was succeeded in his estates by his second natural son CHARLES LLOYD (1662 - 1723), M.P. Politics, Government and Political Movements He was educated at Jesus College, Oxford. He married (1) Jane, daughter of Morgan Lloyd of Greengrove, by whom he had two daughters, and (2) Frances, daughter of Sir Francis Cornwallis of Abermarlais, Carmarthenshire - he had issue by her, two sons and four
LLOYD family Leighton, Moel-y-garth, king when civil war broke out, becoming governor of Devises and receiving knighthood in the field (1 November 1644). He followed the Court abroad, but died soon after the Restoration, loaded with debts incurred in the royal service, and petitioning in vain (and his mother and sister after him) for arrears of pay sufficient to stave off destitution. His brother, Sir GODFREY LLOYD, also served as an
LLOYD family Peterwell, 1747 until his death in 1755. John Lloyd married (1) Elizabeth, daughter and coheiress of Sir Isaac Le Hemp (or Le Hoop), who is mentioned in Paul Whitehead The State Dunces, and (2) a Miss Savage. He was an intimate friend of many well-known men of the day including Henry Fox (afterwards lord Holland) Sir Charles Hanbury-Williams and Richard Rigby, the paymaster-general. In 1750 he became the owner
LLOYD GEORGE family ), 2nd Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor The earldom was created in 1945 a few weeks before the death of the 1st earl, David Lloyd George on 26 March 1945. Richard was educated at Porthmadog secondary school and the University of Cambridge. He was an Associate Member of the Inst. of Civil Engineers; he was a major, Royal Engineers, in the two World Wars. He married (1), 1917, Roberta Ida Freeman, daughter of
LLOYD GEORGE, DAVID (the first Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor), (1863 - 1945), statesman Edinburgh, 1918, Sheffield, 1919, Birmingham, 1921. In 1944 he had come to his home, Ty Newydd, in Llanystumdwy, where he died 26 March 1945. He was buried according to his own wishes in the wooded slope above the river Dwyfor near his home. He married (1), 24 January 1888, Margaret (died 20 January 1941) daughter of Richard and Mary Owen of Mynydd Ednyfed, Cricieth. They had five children: Richard, (1889
LLOYD, DAVID MYRDDIN (1909 - 1981), librarian and Welsh scholar features of the work of Cynddelw, one of the most challenging of all the poets, was no mean achievement. Some of Myrddin Lloyd's research was published in Y Llenor, 11, 13 (1932, 1934), Études celtiques, 5 (1949) and as notes in the Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies in 1932, 1933, but he continued to publish reviews and new studies in the 1950s and 1960s in Llên Cymru, 1 (1951), Studia Celtica, 3
LLOYD, EVAN (1734 - 1776), cleric and writer Born 15 April 1734, second son of John Lloyd and Bridget Bevan of Frondderw, Bala. He was educated at Ruthin and Jesus College, Oxford, where he matriculated on 22 March 1750/1, B.A. 1754, M.A. 1757. He was curate of S. Mary's, Redriff, until 1763, when he became the absentee vicar of Llanfair Dyffryn Clwyd. He published several witty verse satires: The Powers of the Pen (London, 1766), The
LLOYD, GEORGE (1560 - 1615), bishop of Chester . in 1583, M.A. 1586, B.D. 1593, D.D. 1598. He became a Fellow of Magdalene, c. 1586, sinecure rector of Llanrwst, 1597, of Heswall, 1597-1613, and of Bangor Iscoed, 1612-5. In 1600 he was consecrated bishop of Sodor and Man, exchanging the see in December 1604 for that of Chester, where he reversed the anti-Puritan policy of his Welsh predecessor Richard Vaughan, formerly bishop of Bangor. He died 1
LLOYD, JOHN (1733 - 1793), cleric and antiquary was Angharad Llwyd, and another, Llewelyn (1770 - 1841) was rector of Nannerch (Thomas, op. cit., ii, 422) from 1810 till 184 1. John Lloyd was reckoned something of a scholar in his day. He was a member of the somewhat nebulous committee which was concerned with the preparation of The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales; he was a friend of Philip Yorke's; Warrington acknowledged Lloyd's help in his

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