Dictionary of Welsh Biography

LLOYD, DAVID (1635 - 1692), biographer Northop, Flinltshire, where he was also master of the free school. The same year he was made rector of Llanddulas, Denbighshire. He died 16 February 1691/2, and was buried at Trawsfynydd. He was the author of ten published works, dealing chiefly with the history and biography of his time from a Royalist point of view. Among them is a work entitled Εἰκὼν Βασιλική 1660, a work which sought to do for
LLOYD, DAVID (1597 - 1663), dean of St Asaph . The epitaph which he had himself composed, but which was not used, his resting-place at Ruthin being left without a monument, is printed by Wood (Athenae Oxonienses, iii, 653). In it he confesses to an inordinate fondness for the pleasures of the table. He was an ardent Royalist, and in his petition for reinstatement (1660) at the Restoration he states that he had 'often entertained princes Rupert
LLOYD, HUGH (1586 - 1667), bishop of Llandaff Denbigh in 1637, rector of Hirnant, Montgomeryshire, 1638, canon and archdeacon of St David's, 1644. During the Civil War he became, like his father, a marked royalist. He was ejected 'before the Act' for the Propagation from his livings for plurality and for refusing the Covenant, but was allowed 'fifths' for some time. In May 1648 he was taken prisoner by colonel Horton after the battle of St. Fagans
LLOYD, Sir RICHARD (1606 - 1676) Esclus, royalist and judge
LLOYD, RICHARD (1595 - 1659), Royalist divine and schoolmaster
LLOYD, Sir WALTER (1580 - 1662?) Llanfair Clydogau, Royalist
LLOYD, WILLIAM (1627 - 1717), bishop of St Asaph Born 18 August 1627, son of a royalist divine, Richard Lloyd of Sonning, grandson of an Anglesey poet, Dafydd Llwyd o'r Henblas, and member of a Welsh family that had an unprecedented number of bishops and clerics in its pedigree lines. He became Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford, M.A, in 1646, D.D. in 1667. His career during the republic was difficult and full of vicissitude; after the Restoration
LLUELYN, MARTIN (1616 - 1682), poet and physician Royalist forces and reached the rank of captain. Ejected from Oxford in 1648 by the Parliamentary visitors, he went to London to practice as a physician. He became M.D. (Oxon.) in 1653, and a Fellow of the College of Physicians in 1659. He wrote verses to celebrate the return of Charles II, and in 1660 successfully petitioned for the post of physician extraordinary to that monarch. The same year he was
LORT family Stackpole, members of the ' Royalist Association,' and Roger a Royalist officer; both brothers signed several declarations on the king's side in 1643-4; Roger persuaded Tenby to admit a royalist garrison, and Sampson was one of the gentry who spoke of attacking Pembroke. In 1643 Stackpole was taken by Rowland Laugharne, but Roger Lort was not there - he had gone up to London to make his peace with Parliament, and
MANSELL, FRANCIS (1579 - 1665), principal of Jesus College, Oxford , says E. G. Hardy, ' by far the most picturesque figure in the College history.' Very authoritarian, he yet proved very sagacious; he greatly enlarged the college buildings, contributed liberally to its funds, and gathered in many donations. When the Civil War broke out, Mansell was in Wales, where he remained for years (while Oxford was under siege), assisting the royalist cause; but when in 1647 the
MATHEW family Castell y Mynach, , produced one notable figure, THOMAS MATHEWS (1676 - 1751), of Llandaff Court, vice-admiral of the Red, commander-in-chief at the battle of Toulon in 1744, and Member of Parliament for Glamorgan, 1745-7. This branch became extinct on the death of his grandson in 1798. In contrast to the Llandaff branch, which was quietly Royalist and later Whig, the Radyr branch was always politically and sometimes
MAURICE, HENRY (1634 - 1682), Independent minister daughter of the Royalist squire Jeffrey Glynn of Gwynfryn, by Pwllheli. Following a short stay in Shrewsbury prison on a charge of debt - he was throughout his life somewhat careless in money matters - he moved to Much Wenlock in the same county; there he was when Charles II published his Indulgence of 1672; Maurice at once took out three licences, one for his own house, one for another house in the same

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