Dictionary of Welsh Biography

LLOYD, JACOB YOUDE WILLIAM (Chevalier Lloyd; 1816 - 1887), historian and antiquary son of Jacob William Hinde of Langham Hall, Essex, D.L., and of Harriet, his wife, daughter and co-heiress of the Rev. Thomas Youde of Clochfaen, Montgomeryshire, and Plasmadog. He was educated at Wadham College, Oxford, was ordained deacon, December 1839, and became curate of Llandinam, Montgomeryshire. At the end of a year he was ordained priest, but resigned some time between the end of
LLOYD, JOHN (1733 - 1793), cleric and antiquary 1814 (523) issue of Gent. Mag. - the confusion was not unnatural. (2) JOHN LLOYD (1754 - 1807?), son of William Lloyd, Esq., of an ancient family, domiciled in Llanstephan, Carmarthenshire. He went up to Jesus College, Oxford, in 1758, graduated in 1762 (B.D. 1772), and was probably the ' Mr. Lloyd of Carmarthenshire,' who (like so many members of his college) was corresponding member of the
LLOYD, JOHN (1749 - 1815), lawyer and dilettante items (books, manuscripts, maps) and a collection of scientfic apparatus, which it took John Broster of Chester nearly a fortnight to sell by auction in 1816; there were rare examples of books printed by William Caxton, Wynkyn de Worde, and Richard Pynson, and some of the Welsh MSS. of John Jones of Gellilyfdy - see Bibliotheca Llwydiana, a Catalogue of the Entire Library (etc.); N.L.W. has copies
LLOYD, JOHN AMBROSE (1815 - 1874), musician Liverpool, John Ambrose Lloyd, like his brother, attended the Welsh church of Dewi Sant, but when his brother left for Blackburn (1835) he joined the Tabernacle Congregational church where his cousin, the Rev. William Ambrose (Emrys), was a member. Soon after he had joined this church he became its precentor. In 1835 he married Catherine, daughter of Edward and Elizabeth Evans, members of Tabernacle
LLOYD, Sir JOHN EDWARD (1861 - 1947), historian, and first editor of Y Bywgraffiadur Cymreig restricted himself, in his published work, to the period on which he had begun writing as far back as 1884. But he was persuaded to move to a later period when he was elected Oxford Ford Lecturer in 1931. He chose as his subject the history of Owain Glyn Dŵr, and the work was published under the title Owen Glendower (the title was chosen by the press) in 1931. Once again the author's characteristics can be
LLOYD, JOHN MEIRION (1913 - 1998), missionary and author college, located initially in the vestry of the Veng mission church. The college followed the syllabus of Serampore College which was founded by the famous missionary, William Carey. For some years, it collaborated with a teacher training college, and was supported by a scholarship from the World Council of Churches. In September 1964 Meirion Lloyd was succeeded as principal by the Reverend C. Pazawna
LLOYD, LEWIS WILLIAM (1939 - 1997), historian and author
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, MEREDITH (fl. 1655-1677), lawyer and antiquary interesting letter (C. 102) written in 1677 from Lloyd to a kinsman, William Maurice of Llansilin, the famous antiquary, in which he discusses the contents of the Hengwrt library, and urges its sale to William Williams (1634 - 1700), afterwards known as 'Speaker Williams.' Robert Owen, in his Short Historical Sketch of Welshpool, suggests that the subject of this article was the Meredith Lloyd of Brynellin
LLOYD, RICHARD (1771 - 1834), Calvinistic Methodist minister Born at Nantdaenog, Llantrisant, Anglesey, sixth child of William Lloyd and his wife Jane - she was a daughter of the famous old dissenter William Prichard (1702 - 1773) of Clwchdernog. His paternal grandfather was David Lloyd ap Rhys (J. E. Griffith, Pedigrees, 100), and in his articles in Goleuad Cymru, Richard Lloyd used to sign himself ' Rhisiart William Dafydd.' He joined the Methodist
LLOYD, RICHARD (1834 - 1917), pastor of the Campbellite Church of the Disciples of Christ, Criccieth Born at Llanystumdwy, Caernarfonshire, 12 July 1834, son of Dafydd and Rebecca Llwyd. His father was a shoemaker and the pastor of the Church of the Disciples of Christ, Pen-y-maes, Criccieth; after a short time at a Llanystumdwy school Richard Lloyd was apprenticed to his father and ultimately followed him both in the pastorate and in the business. He was ordained joint pastor with William
LLOYD, RICHARD (1595 - 1659), Royalist divine and schoolmaster , Athenae Oxonienses, ed. Bliss, iii, 473), and was buried in the church of S. Peter le Bailey in June 1659. Two of his brothers held Anglesey livings, and a third was secretary to the earl of Northumberland. William Lloyd (1627 - 1717), bishop of St Asaph, was his son.

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