Dictionary of Welsh Biography

LLOYD, MEREDITH (fl. 1655-1677), lawyer and antiquary Cambro-Briton, i, 410-5; there are also two important letters, one written in 1655, and the other in 1658, bound with Peniarth MS 275. This correspondence shows that Vaughan held Lloyd in high esteem and frequently consulted him about his researches. It was he who was entrusted with the negotiations for securing a loan for his friend of the 'Liber Landavensis' from Sir John Vaughan of Trawsgoed in 1655
LLOYD, Sir RICHARD (1606 - 1676) Esclus, royalist and judge both Cardiff and Radnorshire, sitting for the latter till his death on 5 May 1676, when he was buried at Wrexham. Another member of the family (not to mention, for the time being, David Owen, 'Dafydd y Garreg Wen') deserves some attention. A comparison of the charts in J. E. Griffith (Pedigrees, 330, 353, 269) shows that Sir Richard Lloyd had a sister Margaret who married Richard Anwyl of Parc. Their
LLOYD, SIMON (1756 - 1836), Methodist cleric of Llanycil, for a period whose beginning is uncertain but which lasted till 1800 despite his rector's dislike of Methodism (Jenkins, op. cit., ii, 402, etc.). In May 1800 he was invited by the parishioners of Llanuwchllyn to become curate there; the patron (Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn) assented after some hesitation, but the bishop (in November) flatly refused to institute him. From that time on
LLOYD, THOMAS ALWYN (1881 - 1960), architect and town planner assistant to Sir Raymond Unwin in the Hampstead Garden Suburb. He was appointed, in 1913, the consulting architect to the Welsh Town Planning and Housing Trust and he designed a number of new villages in England and Wales, e.g. in Fishguard, Llanidloes, Menai Bridge and Llangefni as well as St. Francis Church in Barry, St. Margaret, Wrexham, the Students' Union, Cardiff, and housing for the Forestry
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, 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
LLOYD, WILLIAM (1627 - 1717), bishop of St Asaph he was promoted from one high office to another, became a prebendary of S. Paul's, chaplain to the princess Mary, and preached the funeral sermon, alive with anti-Popery, of Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey (1678). He was Protestant of Protestants and an uncompromising Anglican, as was witnessed when he became archdeacon of Merioneth in 1668, dean of Bangor in 1672, and especially when he was appointed
LLOYD, Sir WILLIAM (1782 - 1857), soldier and one of the first Europeans to reach the peak of any Himalayan snow-capped mountain
LLOYD-JONES, DAVID MARTYN (1899 - 1981), minister and theologian medical world. Within five years he had obtained his MBBS (with distinction in Medicine), MRCS and LRCP. By 1923 he had been awarded an MD degree for research on subacute bacterial endocarditis, followed in 1925 by the award of MRCP. He was chosen to assist Sir Thomas Horder (later Lord Horder) in the medical unit. Horder was regarded as one of the foremost physicians of his age and he served for a long
LLOYD-JONES, JOHN (1885 - 1956), scholar and poet Philologie. In 1921 he won the prize at the national eisteddfod at Caernarfon for an essay on Caernarfonshire place-names, which he amplified and published in 1928 under the title Enwau lleoedd sir Gaernarfon. At the time this work was the only study of its kind in Wales done according to modern scholarly principles, and although there have been significant advances in place names studies since then, the
LLWYD, ANGHARAD (1780 - 1866), antiquary 'Catalogue of Welsh Manuscripts, etc. in North Wales,' two of her other essays being 'Genealogy and Antiquities of Wales' and 'The Castles of Flintshire.' She edited and published a new edition of Sir John Wynn's The history of the Gwydir family, 1827. Her chief work, the History of the Island of Mona, 1832, gained the premier essay prize at the Beaumaris eisteddfod of 1832. Her voluminous MS. notes on
LLWYD, Sir DAFYDD, Elizabethan poet

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