Dictionary of Welsh Biography

LLYWELYN ap RHISIART (fl. 1520-1565), Chief Bard of the Three Provinces', and one of the most notable poets in the history of Glamorgan He was a Glamorgan man by birth and his home was at Llantwit Major. His first patron, Sir Edward Stradling (see the article on the family), lived in the near-by castle of S. Donats, while his friend Iorwerth Fynglwyd also lived in the same neighbourhood. In an elegy to Tudur Aled he acknowledges him to have been his teacher in the art of poetry, and his use of cynghanedd was smooth, accurate, and
LHUYD, EDWARD (1660 - 1709), botanist, geologist, antiquary, and philologist The illegitimate son of Edward Lloyd of Llanforda, near Oswestry, and Bridget Pryse of Glan-ffraid, near Tal-y-bont, Cardiganshire, he was born in Loppington parish and nursed there at Krew Green for nine years by a Catherine Bowen. He entered the grammar school at Oswestry and it is probable that he later taught there. There is definite evidence that he had developed an interest in antiquities
LHWYD, EDWARD - see LHUYD, EDWARD
LLOYD family Dolobran, Tewdwr Mawr. Gwenllian, daughter of Adam ap Meyrick ap Pasgen, is also given as the wife of Celynin, and of his son, EINION. This Adam ap Meyrick may have been the sinecure rector of Meifod, c. 1265. Einion was living in 1340. LLEWELYN AB EINION is named in a pardon granted by Edward de Cherleton, lord of Powys, to his grandson, Griffith ap Jenkin ap Llewelyn, in 1419, for his complicity in the war of
LLOYD family Rhiwaedog, Rhiwedog, from the ancient and once powerful family of Lloyd, of Rhiwaedog '; his nephew, GEORGE PRICE LLOYD, of Plasyndre, Bala, served for 1840-1; whilst EDWARD EVANS –LLOYD, of Moelygarnedd, near Bala, nephew of the latter, served the office in 1887-8. And, finally, the sheriff for 1939-40 was ARTHUR CAMPBELL LLOYD JONES -LLOYD, of Moel-y-garnedd and Chester. To the pedigree compilers, including many of the
LLOYD, DAVID (1752 - 1838), cleric, poet, and musician holy orders and became curate at Putley, Herefordshire, from 1785 to 1789, when he was made vicar of Llanbister, where he remained until his death 3 March 1838. He published in 1792 The Voyage of Life, a poem somewhat after the manner of Edward Young. A new and enlarged edition, dedicated to bishop Burgess, was published in 1812 under the title Characteristics of Men, Manners and Sentiments or the
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, Sir EDWARD (1710? - 1795), Secretary for War - see MOSTYN
LLOYD, EDWARD (1795 - 1844), lord lieutenant of Merionethshire - see MOSTYN
LLOYD, Sir EDWARD PRYCE (1768 - 1854) - see MOSTYN
LLOYD, HOWEL WILLIAM (1816 - 1893), antiquary Born at Rhagatt near Corwen 27 August 1816, son of Edward Lloyd, solicitor, and chairman of the Merioneth quarter sessions for about half a century, and grandson of judge Lloyd, the leading judge of the Carmarthen circuit. He was educated at Rugby and Oxford (Balliol and Jesus), was ordained, and for about two years was a curate at Llangorwen near Aberystwyth. In 1842 he became perpetual curate
LLOYD, JOHN AMBROSE (1815 - 1874), musician Liverpool, John Ambrose Lloyd, like his brother, attended the Welsh church of Dewi Sant, but when his brother left for Blackburn (1835) he joined the Tabernacle Congregational church where his cousin, the Rev. William Ambrose (Emrys), was a member. Soon after he had joined this church he became its precentor. In 1835 he married Catherine, daughter of Edward and Elizabeth Evans, members of Tabernacle

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