Dictionary of Welsh Biography

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 (1885 - 1964), schoolmaster, author and local historian Born 11 July 1885 in Ty Gwyn y Gamlas, Ynys, Talsarnau, Merionethshire, the seventh child of Evan Lloyd, farmer, and his wife Catrin (née Jones). He was educated at the board school Talsarnau; the intermediate school Barmouth; the grammar school Wigan (for a year only) and the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth (B.A., 1906 with second-class honours in Welsh; M.A., 1911). He was a teacher at
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
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 account of his health and he, and a friend, opened a business as lithographers, a venture which, however, proved to be a financial loss. He became a North Wales representative for the firm of Francis Firth, Liverpool, and later, after the death of Firth, for the successors of that firm, viz., Woodall and Jones; this post he relinquished in 1871 owing to the state of his health. When he first went to
LLOYD, Sir JOHN EDWARD (1861 - 1947), historian, and first editor of Y Bywgraffiadur Cymreig Born 5 May 1861 in Liverpool, son of Edward Lloyd, J.P., and Mary Lloyd (née Jones). The family's ancestral home was Penygarnedd, near Pen-y-bont-fawr in Montgomeryshire, and J.E. Lloyd never lost his feeling for this background nor his affection for the area. He was, at first, intended for the Congregationalist ministry, and for a considerable time he was a lay preacher in the denomination. It
LLOYD, JOHN MEIRION (1913 - 1998), missionary and author , coming out in 1956. He also wrote about the missionary David Evan Jones (1870-1947) under the title Arloesydd Lushai (Pioneer of Lushai) published in 1958. In 1964, he returned to live in Allerton, Liverpool and took up a post as representative of the Bible Society in Merseyside, Wirral, West Lancashire and the Isle of Man. He became a member of Heathfield Road Welsh Chapel, where his brother, Reverend
LLOYD, MEREDITH (fl. 1655-1677), lawyer and antiquary . Vaughan had a high opinion of Lloyd's scholarship and urged him to undertake a study of the Old Welsh laws, for which he was admirably equipped by his legal training and his knowledge of Old Welsh. Another of Lloyd's intimates was the famous copyist, John Jones of Gellilyfdy (1578? - 1658?), whom he visited at the Fleet prison. Among the Wynnstay MSS. in the National Library of Wales there is an
LLOYD, OWEN MORGAN (1910 - 1980), minister and poet train for the ministry. He contributed to the social and cultural life of the University College of North Wales, including sports, and won the chairs of the Bangor Students Eisteddfod and the Inter-collegiate Eisteddfod. Whilst a student he met Gwyneth Jones (1912-2000 from Llanrug and they married in 1938. They had three children, Gwyn, Rhys and Nest. In 1935 O. M. Lloyd was ordained minister of
LLOYD, ROBERT (Llwyd o'r Bryn; 1888 - 1961), eisteddfodwr, entertainer and farmer Born in Penybryn, Bethel, Llandderfel, Merionethshire, 29 February 1888, the youngest son of John and Winifred Lloyd. He was baptized by Michael Daniel Jones. He was educated at Sarnau school and after working for a period with his father on the farm, he married in 1913 Annie Williams, Derwgoed, Llandderfel. Thereafter he farmed Derwgoed until he retired in 1944. In this connection, he was one of
LLOYD, SIMON (1756 - 1836), Methodist cleric (see T. M. Jones, Llenyddiaeth fy Ngwlad, 76) edited the third series of Y Drysorfa. He married (1789) Bridget Price of Rhydcolomennod (Llangrannog, Cardiganshire), and they had eight children. He took considerable interest in improved methods of farming. The family estates remained in the possession of his descendants till very lately - see the list of Plas-yn-dre properties in Y Seren (Bala), 26

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