Dictionary of Welsh Biography

LLOYD family Dolobran, Owain Glyn Dŵr. His widow, Lucy, daughter of Griffith ab Ednyfed Lloyd of Bromfield, was then alive. His third son, DEIO AP LLYWELYN, was the first to be associated with Dolobran. (The Vaughan family of Llwydiarth, issued from the eldest son, Jenkin). Deio's first wife was Mary, daughter of Griffith Goch of Ruyton xi Towns or of Knockyn. The Vaughans of Glasgoed issued from this marriage, and David ap
LLOYD family Rhiwaedog, Rhiwedog, , received a copy of the family pedigree from ELISE AP WILLIAM LLOYD, who was high sheriff of Merioneth in 1565. The ancestry as given by Dwnn (Visitations, ii, 225-6 - see the footnotes by W. W. E. Wynne) is traced through Owain Gwynedd and Llywarch Hen to Coel Godebog. J. E. Griffith (Pedigrees, 234) gives the descent from Owain Gwynedd down to 1832, and (ibid., 383) shows also the relationship of SIMON
LLOYD GEORGE, DAVID (the first Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor), (1863 - 1945), statesman Born 5, New York Place, Manchester, 17 January 1863, son of William George, Tre-coed, Pembrokeshire, and Elizabeth daughter of David Lloyd of Llanystumdwy, Caernarfonshire. On his father's death in Pembrokeshire in 1864 his mother moved with her children to Llanystumdwy, to live with her brother, Richard Lloyd (1834 - 1917). Lloyd George was educated at the Llanystumdwy National School and passed
LLOYD, CHARLES (d. 1698), squire of Maesllwch in Radnorshire (in his later days) and Independent elder family of Sheephouse, but it casts no light at all on the reasons why for a long period he was referred to as ' Charles Lloyd of Gwernyfed ' - that had to wait for an article in Y Dysgedydd of 1939 (339) by Idris Davies, explaining that he lived in the dower house there, with his first wife, the widow of one of the Gwernyfed sons. Charles Lloyd was brother to William Lloyd of Wernos and to Walter Lloyd
LLOYD, DAVID (1805 - 1863), principal of Carmarthen Presbyterian College and Unitarian minister argument and engaged in hot debate with D. A. Williams, chancellor of the diocese of S. Davids, Hugh William Jones (Baptist) of Carmarthen, bishop Thirlwall, and Gwilym Marles, on the tenets of Theodore Parker. He sought to improve education in the town and worked hard to get a hospital and a public cemetery. When he died, Welsh students lost a stalwart friend and the Unitarian movement in the town
LLOYD, DAVID MYRDDIN (1909 - 1981), librarian and Welsh scholar D. Myrddin Lloyd was born 15 April 1909 in 399 Heol Ganol, Fforest-fach (y Gendros), Swansea, the elder of the two sons of William Henry Lloyd, a carpenter from Carmarthen, and his wife, Eleanor, the daughter of Reverend David Davies, 'Dafi Dafis' of Rhydcymerau (1814-1891), a character well known for his humour and stories, many of whose personal characteristics were inherited by his grandson
LLOYD, DAVID TECWYN (1914 - 1992), literary critic, author, educationalist Diroedd y Dwyrain, (translation of work by H. I. Bell) 1946; Ysgol Llawrybetws, 1908-1958 (ed.), 1958; Ned Sera Jôs, (private publication) R. Williams Parry (Pamffledi Llenyddol Cyfadran Addysg Aberystwyth), 1962; Tannau'r Cawn (ed.) (the poems of William Jones), 1965; Y Cythreuliaid (translation of The Devils by John Whiting) 1965; Safle'r Gerbydres ac Ysgrifau Eraill, 1970; Hyd Eithaf y Ddaear a
LLOYD, EDWARD (c. 1570 - 1648?) Llwyn-y-maen, Templar, Rowland Baugh, on the ground that Eure's marriage within his circuit, to the grand-daughter of Sir William Maurice of Clenennau, was contrary to the Act of Union. He was imprisoned by order of the Privy Council in the Tower and then the Fleet, and the final order for his release did not come till the end of 1620. Meanwhile his rash exhibition of joy at the defeat in Bohemia in November of the
LLOYD, EVAN (1764 - 1847), Unitarian Baptist minister Born 21 March 1764 at Nevern; member of Cardigan Baptist church and assistant there to William Williams (1732 - 1799). He served in the militia when the French landed at Fishguard, 1797. He does not seem to have been a General Baptist at the time of the 1799 schism, for in 1801 he was ordained at Ffynnonhenry (D. Jones, Hanes Bed. Deheubarth Cymru, 423, with Yr Ymofynydd, 1847, 93), but soon
LLOYD, EVAN (1734 - 1776), cleric and writer Curate (London, 1766), The Methodist (London, 1766), Conversation (London, 1767). ' Libidinoso ' in The Methodist was believed to describe William Price of Rhiwlas, who brought an action for libel. Lloyd spent a fortnight in the King's Bench prison and on 16 May 1768 was fined £50. His wit won him the friendship of John Wilkes and David Garrick. Lloyd wrote An Epistle to David Garrick (London, 1773
LLOYD, HOWEL WILLIAM (1816 - 1893), antiquary
LLOYD, ISAAC SAMUEL (Glan Rhyddallt; 1875 - 1961), quarryman, poet and writer Born 29 June 1875 at Tŷ Newydd, Clegyr, Llanberis (the original name of the house was Penrallt), the son of William Lloyd and his wife Mary Hughes. He was educated at Llanberis elementary school, but he had little opportunity for further schooling because his mother died when he was only eight years old and he worked, from that time until he was sixty, in the slate quarries. He married Margaret

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