Dictionary of Welsh Biography

LLYWELYN ap RHISIART (fl. 1520-1565), Chief Bard of the Three Provinces', and one of the most notable poets in the history of Glamorgan observe how the interests of the aristocracy were being tightly bound to the throne by the gift of appointments and monastic possessions. In an elegy written to Rhys ap Siôn of Glyn Neath we hear a murmur of opposition to the English influences which were gradually spreading over Glamorgan and Gwent.
LHUYD, EDWARD (1660 - 1709), botanist, geologist, antiquary, and philologist more to stones and fossils. In the spring of 1691 he accompanied two Danish geologists, Seerup and Hemmer, on a nine-day excursion to Salisbury, Bath, and Bristol. He sought to establish a 'Geological Club,' and carried on a steady correspondence with John Woodward, William Nicholson, and Richard Richardson. He thought of travelling abroad in order to extend his researches, and at one time he planned
LINDEN, DIEDERICH WESSEL (d. 1769), medical doctor and mineralogist first drew public notice - and ire - from among British contemporaries, such as Lewis Morris and Thomas Pennant. With support from Elizabeth Adams, a Chester printer, and Thomas Cotham, a personal friend who had translated the German manuscript, Linden presented his first English publication, A Letter to William Hooson, a Derbyshire Miner (1747). In this pamphlet, he chiefly attacked Hooson as a hack
LLEWELLYN, Sir DAVID RICHARD (1879 - 1940), coalowner Born 9 March 1879 at Aberdare, Glamorganshire, the eldest son of Rees and Elizabeth (née Llewellyn) Llewellyn, Bwllfa House : his father was general manager of the Bwllfa & Merthyr Dare Collieries, a post afterwards held by his son, William Morgan Llewellyn. D.R. Llewellyn was educated at Aberdare and Llandovery College before following a course in mining engineering at University College
LLEWELLYN, THOMAS REDVERS (1901 - 1976), singer and teacher of singing Redvers Llewellyn was born at 8 Hunter St, Britton Ferry on 4 December 1901, the son of John Llewellyn (1875-1960), a tin worker, and his wife Catherine (1878-1943). He had an elder brother William (1899-1919) and a younger sister, Annie (1908-1990). He used the name Redvers Llewellyn professionally, but was known to family and friends as Tom. Both his parents were musical and they encouraged him
LLEWELYN, MARY PENDRILL (1811 - 1874), translator and writer Born 12 March 1811 at Cowbridge, Glamorganshire; she became the wife of the Rev. R. Pendrill Llewelyn, vicar of Llangynwyd, near Maes-teg, Glamorganshire. Both she and her husband were greatly interested in Welsh literature, and many stanzas of her own composition appeared in The Cambrian and Merthyr Guardian; she published in 1850 a translated collection of Welsh hymns, mainly those of William
LLEWELYN, SION (1690 - 1776), poet at Cefn, nearer to the home of Siôn, in 1747, with Siôn as one of the prominent promoters, and first deacon. The poet, a blacksmith by trade (although one manuscript calls him a weaver), died 1 January 1776, and was buried in the grounds of Hen Dŷ Cwrdd, Cefn. A marble memorial tablet was unveiled at the old chapel by his descendants on 17 August 1947. His grandson was William Harri, of Garw Dyle
LLEWELYN, WILLIAM (1735 - 1803), Independent minister
LLEWELYN, WILLIAM CRAVEN (1892 - 1966), colliery owner, companies director, agriculturalist and specialist in forestry
LLEYN, WILLIAM - see LLŶN, WILIAM
LLOYD family Peterwell, matriculated from Jesus College, Oxford in 1738 and was called to the Bar (Inner Temple) in 1742. In the same year he married his first wife a Miss Bragg of Essex who died in 1743; he married (2) Anne, daughter of William Powell of Nanteos and widow of Richard Stedman of Strata Florida. Herbert Lloyd was M.P. for Cardigan boroughs from 1761 to 1768, and was an unsuccessful candidate and petitioner in 1769
LLOYD family Bodidris, This was an ancient Denbighshire family which rose into prominence under the Tudors, largely as a result of successful marriages into neighbouring houses, one of which made them heirs to Glyndyfrdwy, the patrimony of Owain Glyn Dŵr. JOHN LLOYD became sheriff of Denbighshire in 1551; his son, Sir EVAN LLOYD (died 1586), succeeded him in the office in 1583, and was elected M.P. for the county in

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