Dictionary of Welsh Biography

LLOYD, EDWARD (c. 1570 - 1648?) Llwyn-y-maen, ancient princes of Powys. Edward's father, RICHARD LLOYD (died 1601), had been denounced in 1575 for receiving secret messages from Hugh Owen of Plas Du (1538 - 1618), on his flight abroad after the Ridolfi plot, and was an avowed recusant in 1588. Edward himself was entered at the Middle Temple in 1585; by 1592 he was bracketed with his father as a recusant, but that did not prevent him from practising
LLOYD, EVAN (fl. 1833-1859), printers and publishers everything (e.g. the title of the firm, ' John and Evan Lloyd') suggests that John was the elder brother, but attempts to find his dates have so far been unsuccessful. The firm must have been printing at Mold in 1833 at the latest, for it was in that year that Owen Jones (Meudwy Môn) became a proof-reader in their office, more especially to correct the proofs of the Biblical commentary by James
LLOYD, HUMPHREY (1610 - 1689), bishop of Bangor Lewis Bayly from the title page of the 1675 Welsh edition of the Practice of Piety, and that Lloyd himself wrote the author's name on the copies to be distributed in the Bangor neighbourhood. He married Jane, daughter of John Griffith the younger of Cefnamwlch and widow of Owen Brereton of Borras. By her he had three sons, John, Francis, and Richard. He died 18 January 1689, and was buried in Bangor
LLOYD, ISAAC SAMUEL (Glan Rhyddallt; 1875 - 1961), quarryman, poet and writer ' Glan Rhyddallt ' in the Gorsedd. He was a weekly columnist with the Herald Cymraeg from 1931 until his death. Under the name of ' Mari Lewis ', his daughter had begun her column a year before her father. He corresponded on a regular basis with Welsh Americans and he wrote an account of Goronwy Owen, Goronwy'r Alltud (1947). He died at Gallt y Sil Hospital, Caernarfon, on 7 July 1961 and he was buried
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, LUDOVIC (fl. 1573-1610), courtier, versifier, and compiler note, probably by Lewis Morris, implying that Lloyd was the author. But another note, in the hand of W. Owen Pughe, attributes the poem to Owen Tudor, 'who wrote it in honour of queen Catherine '. The poem has been printed in Mont. Coll., xxii.
LLOYD, MEREDITH (fl. 1655-1677), lawyer and antiquary interesting letter (C. 102) written in 1677 from Lloyd to a kinsman, William Maurice of Llansilin, the famous antiquary, in which he discusses the contents of the Hengwrt library, and urges its sale to William Williams (1634 - 1700), afterwards known as 'Speaker Williams.' Robert Owen, in his Short Historical Sketch of Welshpool, suggests that the subject of this article was the Meredith Lloyd of Brynellin
LLOYD, OWEN MORGAN (1910 - 1980), minister and poet
LLOYD, Sir RICHARD (1606 - 1676) Esclus, royalist and judge both Cardiff and Radnorshire, sitting for the latter till his death on 5 May 1676, when he was buried at Wrexham. Another member of the family (not to mention, for the time being, David Owen, 'Dafydd y Garreg Wen') deserves some attention. A comparison of the charts in J. E. Griffith (Pedigrees, 330, 353, 269) shows that Sir Richard Lloyd had a sister Margaret who married Richard Anwyl of Parc. Their
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, ROBERT (1716 - 1792) Plas Ashpool,, farmer and Methodist exhorter South Wales in 1759-1760; and this was the beginning of Methodism in the Vale of Clwyd. It was at Tŷ Modlen that John Owen (1733 - 1776) of Berthen Gron was converted, that Flintshire Methodism started, and that Edward Williams of Glan Clwyd (1750 - 1813) heard Daniel Rowland preach, and was pierced to the quick. Robert Llwyd and Edward Parry of Bryn Bugad (1723 - 1786) were friends and worked
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

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