Dictionary of Welsh Biography

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
LLYWELYN FAWR (fl. early 13th century), lords of Merioneth The sons of Maredudd ap Cynan. In spite of the breach between their father and Llywelyn I, they were friendly towards Llywelyn from 1215 onwards. The lordship of Merioneth, lost to the family in 1202, may indeed have been restored to them as early as 1221. Though they were confirmed in possession of the 'cantref' by Henry III in 1241, both fought on the side of Dafydd II in 1245. After that date
LLYWELYN-WILLIAMS, ALUN (1913 - 1988), poet and literary critic ['Closer than the Historian'] (1968) and in Ambell Sylw ['A Few Observations'] (1988) which appeared in December after his death with the assistance of his friend and former colleague, Dyfnallt Morgan. The last essay in that selection is 'Y Llenor a'i Gymdeithas' ['The Writer and his Society'], the BBC Radio Lecture of 1966 which is an impassioned argument for the importance of the writer within a
LOCKLEY, RONALD MATHIAS (1903 - 2000), farmer, naturalist, conservationist and author Walden by Henry David Thoreau. With the help of his mother he secured ten acres of land seven or so miles away close to St Mellons, in Monmouthshire at the time, and with his eldest sister Enid established a smallholding. It began with poultry, but a naturalist's paradise was planned complete with an island in a flooded hollow. An attempt to visit Steepholm failed but he and an older neighbouring
LORT family Stackpole, GEORGE LORT came from Staffordshire to Pembrokeshire c. 1567 as steward of the Stackpole estate under Margaret Stanley; later on he bought the estate. His heir was his son ROGER LORT (1555? - 1613), sheriff in 1607; then came HENRY LORT (sheriff in 1619), who was said to have been deeply involved in smuggling on the Pembrokeshire coast. Henry had three sons: ROGER (who lived at Stackpole); JOHN
MACKWORTH, CECILY JOAN (1911 - 2006), writer, poet, journalist and traveller discovering this, Helen also took her own life. She was buried in her wedding gown. Having lost her father, husband and only sibling whilst still in her twenties, Mackworth reinvented herself in Paris. She spent the late 1930s relishing the heady atmosphere of bohemian Paris, joining an international community of writers and artists. Henry Miller published her first poetry collection (Eleven Poems) in 1938
MADOG ap MAREDUDD (d. 1160), king of Powys Tomen-y-Rhodwydd at the southern end of the Vale of Clwyd, Madog, in alliance with Ranulf, earl of Chester, unsuccessfully challenged Owain's advance, losing, for a time, the control of his lands in Iâl.This loss was retrieved in 1157 when Henry II, with Madog's support, made a decisive assertion of authority in North Wales. When he died three years later he was still friendly with his powerful patron

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