Dictionary of Welsh Biography

LLOYD family Bodidris, 1585. He was claimed as a papist in 1574, but strenuous efforts by Richard Gwyn failed to 'reconcile' him openly to Rome, and in 1578 he was included with bishops and judges in a special commission to root out recuscany in north-eastern Wales. He fought in the Low Countries under Leicester, was knighted by him in 1586, and died in London (11 March 1586) soon after landing in Kent on his return, his
LLOYD family Dolobran, THOMAS (born 17 February 1640), who are said to have been educated at Jesus College, Oxford, and to have studied medicine, but Foster's evidence is inconclusive. We have Charles Lloyd's own statement that he and his brother Thomas were at Oxford, and Richard Davies the Quaker stated that both brothers left because they were tired of the persecution of Quakers there. John turned his attention to law and
LLOYD family Rhiwaedog, Rhiwedog, surviving Iles sister died in 1832, having bequeathed the property to Frances (daughter of John Lloyd of Berth and Rhagatt), wife of Richard Watkin Price, of Rhiwlas, also in the parish of Llanfor. The family, in the course of the centuries, provided Merioneth with a number of sheriffs. Of these the first may have been EINION (EIGNION) Ap ITHEL AP GWRGENEU, ' Esquire of the Body of John of Gaunt,' Duke of
LLOYD GEORGE family The family was established by the marriage of David Lloyd George and Margaret Owen, 24 January 1888. MARGARET OWEN (1864 - 1941) Born 4 November 1864. She was made Dame Grand Cross of the British Empire in 1918. She died 20 January 1941. She came of a family rooted in the rural life and Methodist nonconformity of Eifionydd. Her father, Richard Owen, was a well-to-do farmer who acted from time to
LLOYD GEORGE, DAVID (the first Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor), (1863 - 1945), statesman Born 5, New York Place, Manchester, 17 January 1863, son of William George, Tre-coed, Pembrokeshire, and Elizabeth daughter of David Lloyd of Llanystumdwy, Caernarfonshire. On his father's death in Pembrokeshire in 1864 his mother moved with her children to Llanystumdwy, to live with her brother, Richard Lloyd (1834 - 1917). Lloyd George was educated at the Llanystumdwy National School and passed
LLOYD GEORGE, RICHARD - see LLOYD GEORGE
LLOYD, CHARLES (d. 1698), squire of Maesllwch in Radnorshire (in his later days) and Independent elder One of Vavasor Powell's apologists in the Examen et Purgamen Vavasoris of 1654; he supported him also by signing the Word for God in opposition to the Protectorate of Cromwell. In August 1672 Henry Maurice paid him a visit, and in 1675 Maurice puts it on record that Lloyd was one of the elders in the 'gathered church' of Brecknock. He was one of the Dissenters, like Richard Edwards of Nanhoron
LLOYD, DAVID (1724 - 1779), Arian minister 1752 to his cousin, and secondly in 1759 to Letitia Lloyd of Llanfechan, who, like himself, was descended from the lords of Castellhywel. He had six children: Jenny (from his first wife), Richard (minister of Llwynrhydowen), John, father of David Lloyd of Carmarthen, 1805 - 1863), Margaret, Charles (1766 - 1829), and David, from the second wife. David Lloyd of Brynllefrith was in his day the greatest
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, 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, GRIFFITH RICHARD MAETHLU (1902 - 1995), college principal and minsister (B) Griffith Richard Maethlu Lloyd was born on 25 January 1902 in Holyhead, the elder son of the Reverend David Lloyd, Baptist minister, and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Griffith Williams, Hensiop, Llanfaethlu, Anglesey. He was brought up in his grandfather's home. His brother was named David. Griffith Lloyd was educated in Ffrwd Win Primary School, Llanfaethlu, and as a boarder in Taunton School
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

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