Dictionary of Welsh Biography

LLOYD GEORGE family -54, Secretary of State for Home Affairs and Minister for Welsh Affairs 1954 (October) - 1957 (January). He was created Viscount Tenby in the New Year's Honours List, 1957. He was appointed chairman of the Council of Tribunals, 1961. He married, 1921, Edna Gwenfron, daughter of David Jones, Gwynfa, Denbigh; they had 2 sons, and David, born 4 November 1922, became the 2nd Viscount Tenby. During his
LLOYD, CHARLES (d. 1698), squire of Maesllwch in Radnorshire (in his later days) and Independent elder and Jenkin Jones of Kilgerran, who were named in 1687 as likely men to forward if appointed J.P. s, the new religious policy of James II, but there is no proof that he was entrapped by that king. Soon after the Toleration Act came into force in 1689, Lloyd gave a piece of land on his Radnor estate at Maes-yr-onnen to build a chapel on, the first Independent chapel in Wales. Towards the end of his
LLOYD, CHARLES FRANCIS (1852 - 1917), musician Born 7 October 1852 at Chester, the son of John Ambrose Lloyd. He was given his earliest music lessons by his father and, when he was 13, sent to the school kept by Joseph David Jones at Ruthin, where he received lessons on the piano by W. Argent. From Ruthin he went to a school at Tattenhall, near Chester; during the two years spent there he used to deputise for the parish church organist on
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 (1724 - 1779), Arian minister Born at Coedlannau-fawr, Llanwenog, Cardiganshire. His father was descended from David ap Llewelyn Lloyd, lord of Castellhywel, Cardiganshire, who was of the lineage of the 'lord' Rhys. His mother was Hester, sister of Jenkin Jones (1700? - 1742) of Llwynrhydowen. He attended the school kept by John Evans (1680 - 1741) of Llanwenog. He never went to the Carmarthen Academy, but Thomas Morgan (1720
LLOYD, DAVID (1597 - 1663), dean of St Asaph and Maurice, and once the late King himself.' Lloyd is chiefly known as the author of The Legend of Captain Jones, 1631, a good-natured burlesque on the exploits of an Elizabethan seaman. The braggart captain is to be regarded as a type rather than as a real person. The Legend immediately became popular and went through several editions.
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, EVAN (fl. 1833-1859), printers and publishers everything (e.g. the title of the firm, ' John and Evan Lloyd') suggests that John was the elder brother, but attempts to find his dates have so far been unsuccessful. The firm must have been printing at Mold in 1833 at the latest, for it was in that year that Owen Jones (Meudwy Môn) became a proof-reader in their office, more especially to correct the proofs of the Biblical commentary by James
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, GRIFFITH RICHARD MAETHLU (1902 - 1995), college principal and minsister (B) Fay (Tryphena) Jones, Rhianfa, Amlwch, a fellow student in Bangor. They had two sons, Dafydd and Iwan. He was ordained in Penuel Rhymney in 1935 and ministered there for twenty years. While there, he conducted extra-mural classes for the University. He was inducted as minister of Penuel Bangor in 1955 and four years later he was appointed by the Baptist College in Bangor as tutor in Greek and New
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 (1733 - 1793), cleric and antiquary Christened 26 March 1733 at Llanarmon-yn-Iâl, Denbighshire, son of John Lloyd (died 1756) of Bodidris and his wife Elizabeth (Jones) of Gerddi Duon, Mold. Lloyd was, however, not of the old Lloyds of Bodidris; his grandfather was Richard Lloyd of Cwmbychan in Ardudwy (on Evan Lloyd of that family, see Pennant, Tours of Wales, 1883 edn., ii, 268). According to Yorke (Royal Tribes of Wales, 1887

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