Dictionary of Welsh Biography

LLOYD, RICHARD (1834 - 1917), pastor of the Campbellite Church of the Disciples of Christ, Criccieth buried in the Criccieth public cemetery on 3 March.
LLOYD, SIMON (1756 - 1836), Methodist cleric printed in Cylchgrawn Cymdeithas Hanes y Methodistiaid Calfinaidd, x, 30-3). Sarah Bowen was of the family of Tyddyn, Llanidloes, well-known in the annals of Montgomeryshire Methodism - see Richard Bennett in Cylchgrawn Cymdeithas Hanes y Methodistiaid Calfinaidd, viii, 57-62, and frequent references in his Meth. Trefaldwyn Uchaf, and consult the index to John Wesley's Journals, ed. Curnock. Sarah Bowen
LLOYD, THOMAS (1765 - 1789), Unitarian minister and Academy tutor . He was a Unitarian of the school of Priestley. He died at the age of 24, and was buried in Llanwenog churchyard, 25 April 1789.
LLUELYN, MARTIN (1616 - 1682), poet and physician son of Martin Lluelyn of London; born 12 December 1616. His Welsh origin seems to be attested by his name. There is, besides, the description of his son George by Burney (History of Music, 1789, 3, 495 n.) as ' a Jacobitical, musical, and Welsh parson.' He was educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated (B.A. 1640 and M.A. 1643). In the Civil War he joined the
LLWYD, HUMPHREY (c. 1527 - 1568), antiquary and map-maker letter in the first edition of his atlas Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (1570). The rest were all sent to Ortelius with a covering letter dated 3 August 1568. In this letter (NLW MS 13187E) Llwyd details the works and explains that his imminent death has forced him to send them in an unfinished state. Of the three works only one was textual; Commentarioli Britannicae descriptionis fragmentum, a short
LOUGHER, ROBERT (d. 1585?), civil lawyer and ecclesiastical administrator Born at Tenby, the youngest son of Thomas Lougher, alderman of the borough. He became a Fellow of All Souls, Oxford (as founder's kin), in 1553, and graduated B.C.L. in 1558 (9 July). In 1561-3 he was presented to three sinecure rectories in Devon and became archdeacon of Totnes (21 February 1562). He attended the Convocation of 1562-3 as prolocutor for the Devon clergy, acquiescing in the
LOWE, WALTER BEZANT (1854 - 1928), antiquary Born at Islington, 3 January 1854. He went to Rugby (becoming head boy) and S. John's College, Cambridge, where he graduated in 1877 with a First (1876) in science, chiefly chemistry. From 1877 till 1879 he was on the Britannia as one of the tutors of the future king George V and his elder brother; later, he had a private school at Fareham. In 1904 he retired to Cae'r Carw, Llanfairfechan, where
MACDONALD, GORDON (first Baron MACDONALD of GWAENYSGOR), (1888 - 1966), politician , Oxford. In 1920 he was elected a member of the Wigan Board of Guardians of which he was chairman in 1929, and he became president of Bryn Gates Co-operative Society, 1922-24. In 1924 he was elected Miners' Agent for Lancashire and Cheshire in the Mineworkers Federation of Great Britain, a post which he held until he was elected M.P. (L) for Ince, Lancashire, in 1929. He showed energy and balanced
MACHEN, ARTHUR (1863 - 1947), writer Born 3 March 1863. He spent his early years at Llanddewi Fach rectory, three miles north of Caerleon-on-Usk, Monmouth; he attended Hereford Cathedral School until he was seventeen. After a period of near starvation in London, he enjoyed an independent income for a time and brought out some of his best early stories. He had already written a translation of Casanova and two imitative works, The
MADDOCK, Sir IEUAN (1917 - 1988), Chief Scientist to the Department of Industry projectiles was attained by his use of electronic instruments and use of the transistor following its invention in 1947. For ensuring the successful firing and collection of all required data from the atomic bomb test on 3 Oct 1952 at Montebello he was appointed OBE in 1953. He became Head of the Field Experiments Division of the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment in 1960, continuing his involvement in
MADRYN family Madryn, Llŷn addition, and even to keep that living under the stringent Propagators of 1650-3. Though his name stood at the head of the Caernarvonshire list of well-wishers to the new Protector in 1658, and though bundles of pistols were discovered at Madryn in 1661 by Restoration investigators, Thomas Madryn eventually conformed with the new powers, and was again sheriff of Caernarvon in 1665-6 (notwithstanding the
MAINWARING, WILLIAM HENRY (1884 - 1971), Labour politician returned to the Central Labour College where he lectured in economics and served as vice-principal, 1919-24. He succeeded A. J. Cook as the miners' agent for the Rhondda no. 1 district of the SWMF, the largest district in the whole of the south Wales coalfield, serving from 1924 until 1934. Mainwaring was elected as the Labour MP for the Rhondda East division in a by-election in 1933 following the death

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