Dictionary of Welsh Biography

LLOYD, Sir THOMAS DAVIES (1820 - 1877), baronet, landowner, and politician Born 21 May 1820, eldest son of Thomas Lloyd of Bronwydd, Cardiganshire, (high sheriff in 1814), and Anne Davies, daughter of John Thomas of Llwydcoed and Llety-mawr, Carmarthenshire. He was educated at Harrow and Christ Church, Oxford. He married, December 1846, Henrietta Mary, daughter of George Reid of Bunker's Hill, Jamaica, and Watlington, Oxfordshire, by Louisa, daughter of Sir Charles
LLOYD, THOMAS RICHARD (Yr Estyn; 1820 - 1891), cleric Born at Denbigh, eldest son of John Lloyd, rector of Llanycil, 1826-41, and of Cerrigydrudion, 1841-68. He was educated at Ruthin Grammar School. Entering Jesus College, Oxford, in 1839, he graduated B.A. in 1843 and was ordained deacon in the same year, being licensed as curate to Llanfynydd in the parish of Hope, Flintshire He was ordained priest in 1844 and licensed to the perpetual curacy of
LLOYD, VAUGHAN (1736 - 1817), general Born at Ffos-y-bleiddiaid (near Ystrad Meurig, Cardiganshire), 17 January 1736, youngest son of John Lloyd and his wife Mary (Phillips, of Pembrokeshire) - on the family (which afterwards removed to Mabws in Llanrhystud), see Some family records … of the Lloyds, by Lloyd-Theakston and Davies (indexed). Lloyd joined the artillery; he was at Minden, 1759, one of the garrison of Gibraltar in 1779-80
LLOYD, Sir WALTER (1580 - 1662?) Llanfair Clydogau, Royalist The son of John Lloyd, high sheriff of Cardiganshire (1602), he was educated at Lincoln College Oxford. His wife was a daughter of Thomas Pryse of Glanfread, Cardiganshire. He was high sheriff of Cardiganshire in 1621. As M.P. for Cardiganshire, 1640, he voted against the impeachment of Strafford. In 1644 he was disabled by Parliament ' for deserting the Service of the House, being in the King's
LLOYD, WILLIAM (1786 - 1852), musician Born at Rhos-goch, Llaniestyn, Llŷn, in 1786; there is a tradition that he was a cattle-drover. The family was musical, and Lloyd himself went around Llŷn holding music classes and conducting hymnody-festivals; he also gave instruction to people who visited him at his home. He composed many hymn-tunes, but the tune with which his name is most widely associated is the dignified tune now known as
LLOYD, Sir WILLIAM (1782 - 1857), soldier and one of the first Europeans to reach the peak of any Himalayan snow-capped mountain brought back to me my schooldays among the purple hills of the Vale of Clwyd.' In 1840, he published two volumes in London edited by his son George which include ' The narrative of a journey from Cawnpoor to the Boorendo Pass ', based on his journal, as well as shorter items by Alexander and James Gerard. A one-volume second ed. was published in 1846. After retiring, Lloyd returned to Wrexham to live on
LLOYD, WILLIAM (1901 - 1967), tutor and setter of words to cerdd dant and composer of harp airs Born 14 February 1901 in Llansannan, Denbighshire, son of Richard Lloyd and Margaret his wife. The family moved to Glan Conwy when he was very young, and he was brought up there. He came to be known as William Lloyd, Cyffordd Llandudno, since he spent most of his life at Llandudno Junction working as a fireman on the railway and later as a train driver. His musical talent was fostered from an
LLOYD, WILLIAM (1637 - 1710), bishop of Llandaff son of Edward Lloyd, rector of Llangower in Merioneth, who was ejected from his living by the Puritan authorities, though the documentary evidence for the action is difficult to obtain. Educated at S. John's College, Cambridge, he was M.A. in 1662 and D.D. in 1670. In 1675 he was made bishop of Llandaff, the last Welshman to hold the see for 200 years. He was an exact and aggressive prelate; he
LLOYD, WILLIAM (1717 - 1777), cleric and translator His antecedents can be established by collating Morris Letters, ii, 158; J. E. Griffith, Pedigrees, 93, and church records at N.L.W. He was of the family of Merddyn Gwyn, Pentraeth, Anglesey, though Lewis Morris confused him with William Lloyd of Trallwyn in Eifionydd (see Griffith, op. cit., 212). His father was also a William Lloyd, an exciseman, who was chorister in Bangor cathedral; his
LLOYD, WILLIAM (1741 - 1808), Calvinistic Methodist exhorter 17 April 1808, and was buried in Caeo churchyard. Pantycelyn, in his elegy on Daniel Rowland calls him 'the wise Lloyd.'
LLOYD, WILLIAM (1627 - 1717), bishop of St Asaph Born 18 August 1627, son of a royalist divine, Richard Lloyd of Sonning, grandson of an Anglesey poet, Dafydd Llwyd o'r Henblas, and member of a Welsh family that had an unprecedented number of bishops and clerics in its pedigree lines. He became Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford, M.A, in 1646, D.D. in 1667. His career during the republic was difficult and full of vicissitude; after the Restoration
LLOYD, WILLIAM (1771 - 1841), Methodist cleric Born in 1771, son of Robert and Elinor Lloyd of Pen-y-maes, Nevin, Caernarfonshire; his father had a small estate in Llannor. He was educated at ysgol ramadeg Botwnnog and Jesus College, Oxford; ordained in 1801, and licensed to Rhoscolyn, Llanfair yn Neubwll, and Llanfihangel, Anglesey. It was not long before he joined the Methodists; [and he was deprived in 1805 in consequence]. He lived for a

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