Dictionary of Welsh Biography

LLOYD, JOHN MORGAN (1880 - 1960), musician
LLOYD, LUDOVIC (fl. 1573-1610), courtier, versifier, and compiler Twyne's translation of Lhuyd's Breviary of Britaine, 1573, William Blandy's The Castle or picture of pollicy, 1581, and Henry Perry's Egluryn Phraethineb, 1595. In the same way, contemporary poets like Thomas Churchyard and Edward Grant contributed verses to Lloyd's work, The Pilgrimage of Princes, 1573. In B.M. Add. MS. 14965 (6) there is a long eulogy, in twenty-six verses, of queen Elizabeth, with a
LLOYD, MORGAN (1820 - 1893), barrister and politician Born at Cefngellgwm, Trawsfynydd, 14 July 1820, son of Morris Lloyd, farmer. The family is stated to have been a branch of the family of Llwyd of Cynfal. Morgan Lloyd at first intended to become a land surveyor and assisted John Matthews in mapping Trawsfynydd parish in 1839. He afterwards went to the Calvinistic Methodist College at Bala and subsequently to Edinburgh University. Becoming a
LLOYD, MORGAN - see LLWYD, MORGAN
LLOYD, OWEN MORGAN (1910 - 1980), minister and poet
LLOYD, WILLIAM (1627 - 1717), bishop of St Asaph bishop of St Asaph in 1680. It is true he held conferences with the leading Dissenters of his diocese (1680-2), with John Evans the Independent, Thomas Lloyd the Quaker, Philip Henry and James Owen, the Presbyterians, but his letters to archbishop Sancroft prove that he meant such meetings to have only one conclusion; that he abated not one jot of his high Anglican pretensions; his letters to lord
LLOYD-JONES, DAVID MARTYN (1899 - 1981), minister and theologian Martyn Lloyd-Jones was born in Cardiff, the second of three sons born to Henry Lloyd-Jones and Magdalene or 'Maggie' Lloyd-Jones (née Evans), on 20 December 1899. The family home was in Donald Street, Cathays, and the father was a grocer by trade. Because of the father's health, the family moved from Cardiff to Llangeitho during the spring of 1906, to keep a general store, which included the sale
LLWYD, MORGAN (1619 - 1659), littérateur, poet, mystic
LLWYD, STEPHEN (1794 - 1854), musician Born 1794 at Llystyn-bach, Nevern, Pembrokeshire, the son of Joseph and Elizabeth Lloyd. He was given some education and was then brought to his father's trade of tailoring. His music instructor was Dafydd Siencyn Morgan. He settled at Fishguard, was appointed precentor at the Baptist chapel there, and soon became known throughout the county as a musician. In 1840 he moved to Pontypridd, where he
LLWYD, HUMPHREY (c. 1527 - 1568), antiquary and map-maker Humphrey Llwyd was born in about 1527 at Denbigh, the only child of Robert Llwyd, Clerk of Works at Denbigh Castle, and Joan (born 1507), daughter of Lewis Piggott. A member of a cadet branch of the Llwyd-Rossendale family of Foxhall, Henllan, Denbighshire, he could trace his ancestry back to Henry (Harri) Rossendale of Rossendale, Lancashire, a liege of Henry de Lacy, Earl of Lincoln and Lord of
LLYWELYN ap GRUFFYDD (d. 1282), Prince of Wales and the conclusion of the peace of Woodstock with Henry III in 1247, he had for eight years to share with Owen a much diminished realm west of the Conway. But by his victory over Owain and a younger brother, Dafydd, at Bryn Derwin, in 1255, he took the first step towards re-consolidating the undivided territorial power once exercised by Llewelyn I. Between 1256 and 1267 he experienced a period of
LLYWELYN ap IORWERTH (fl. 1173-1240), prince concluded with the ' Pact of Middle ' (1234) which virtually established peace for the remainder of Llywelyn's life. He hoped to preserve the integrity of his dominions by introducing primogeniture in place of the native custom of partible succession, and a step towards that end had already been taken when, in 1229, Henry III had acknowledged Dafydd, Joan's son, as Llywelyn's sole successor, to the

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