Dictionary of Welsh Biography

LLOYD family Maesyfelin, daughters. Charles Lloyd, who was M.P. for the Cardigan boroughs from 1698 to 1701, was knighted in 1693 and created a baronet in 1708. He was high sheriff for Cardiganshire in 1690 and for Carmarthenshire in 1716. He died 28 December 1723, and was buried at Lampeter. He was succeeded by his elder son Sir CHARLES CORNWALLIS LLOYD (c.1704 - 1729) The second baronet. He married a Miss Jennings of Anderton
LLOYD family Leighton, Moel-y-garth, LLOYD (associated with him in the sale) became a soldier of fortune, fighting in the Dutch service and in the Bishops' Wars and becoming a gentleman of the Privy Chamber to Charles I. Sir CHARLES LLOYD (c. 1602 - 1661), military engineer Engineering, Construction, Naval Architecture and SurveyingMilitary, was the son of the above Brochwel Lloyd. He learned the art of fortification with the Dutch
LLOYD, EDWARD (c. 1570 - 1648?) Llwyn-y-maen,
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, HENRY (c. 1720 - 1783), soldier and military writer
LLOYD, JOHN (1558? - 1603), cleric and scholar Born at Denbigh, he was a near relative of Humphrey Llwyd (c. 1527 - 1568). All that is known of him can be read in D.N.B. He was at Winchester and New College, Oxford, was Fellow of New College 1579-96, received the college living of Writtle (Essex) in 1598; died in 1603, and was buried at Writtle. He published Josephus on the Maccabees (with a Latin translation) in 1590, and Barlaam's tract on
LLOYD, JOHN AMBROSE (1815 - 1874), musician which were worthy vehicles of praise and worship. His compositions include three cantatas, twenty-eight anthems, and over ninety hymn-tunes - for a list see his biography, written by his son, C. Francis Lloyd. There is no collection used anywhere in the world by Welsh people which does not include a good number of his hymn-tunes; some of them are included in English hymnals also. He died 14 November
LLOYD, JOHN MEIRION (1913 - 1998), missionary and author college, located initially in the vestry of the Veng mission church. The college followed the syllabus of Serampore College which was founded by the famous missionary, William Carey. For some years, it collaborated with a teacher training college, and was supported by a scholarship from the World Council of Churches. In September 1964 Meirion Lloyd was succeeded as principal by the Reverend C. Pazawna
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, Sir WALTER (1580 - 1662?) Llanfair Clydogau, Royalist quarters and adhering to that party. ' He became a commissioner of array for Charles I in 1642, and was knighted in 1643. He was fined £1,003 9s. 0d. by Parliament in 1647, and his estates were sequestered in 1651. Sir Walter lived to see the Restoration, but died c. 1662; Katherine Philipps ('The Matchless Orinda'), who had lived in the town of Cardigan, composed a poem in his honour. He was described
LLWYD, FFOWC (fl. c. 1580-1620) Fox Hall,, poet and squire
LLWYD, HUW (Huw Llwyd o Gynfal; 1568? - 1630?), soldier and bard His home was Cynfal Fawr, in the parish of Maentwrog, Merioneth. His father was Dafydd Llwyd ap Howel ap Rhys. It is known that Huw Llwyd and his brother Owen bought much land in that neighbourhood. He fought in France and Holland in a Welsh regiment raised to fight the armies of Spain in the Low Countries. It is thought that he built the present Cynfal house; the poet Huw Machno has a cywydd c

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