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LLOYD, VAUGHAN (1736 - 1817), general Born at Ffos-y-bleiddiaid (near Ystrad Meurig, Cardiganshire), 17 January 1736, youngest son of John Lloyd and his wife Mary (Phillips, of Pembrokeshire) - on the family (which afterwards removed to Mabws in Llanrhystud), see Some family records … of the Lloyds, by Lloyd-Theakston and Davies (indexed). Lloyd joined the artillery; he was at Minden, 1759, one of the garrison of Gibraltar in 1779-80
LLOYD, Sir WALTER (1580 - 1662?) Llanfair Clydogau, Royalist The son of John Lloyd, high sheriff of Cardiganshire (1602), he was educated at Lincoln College Oxford. His wife was a daughter of Thomas Pryse of Glanfread, Cardiganshire. He was high sheriff of Cardiganshire in 1621. As M.P. for Cardiganshire, 1640, he voted against the impeachment of Strafford. In 1644 he was disabled by Parliament ' for deserting the Service of the House, being in the King's
LLOYD, WILLIAM (1717 - 1777), cleric and translator mother was Elizabeth Hughes of Tre'r-dryw; he had (says William Morris) a full brother who was a ship's captain (perhaps the ' Owen Lloyd ' who was christened a year before him at Flint); he had a half-brother; he was nephew of Owen Lloyd, chancellor of Bangor; and he was cousin to William Jones of Trefollwyn (fl. 1718-79), one of the earliest Methodists of Anglesey. Though the Cymmrodorion lists give
LLOYD, WILLIAM (1627 - 1717), bishop of St Asaph bishop of St Asaph in 1680. It is true he held conferences with the leading Dissenters of his diocese (1680-2), with John Evans the Independent, Thomas Lloyd the Quaker, Philip Henry and James Owen, the Presbyterians, but his letters to archbishop Sancroft prove that he meant such meetings to have only one conclusion; that he abated not one jot of his high Anglican pretensions; his letters to lord
LLOYD, WILLIAM (1637 - 1710), bishop of Llandaff was only by accident that he was prevented from joining his namesake William Lloyd of St Asaph, and raising the Seven Bishops into eight in 1688. At the Revolution he became a Nonjuror, and after Sancroft's death he was their acknowledged leader till his own demise, 1 January 1709/10. His son John married the daughter and heiress of bishop Humphrey Humphreys.
LLOYD, WILLIAM (1901 - 1967), tutor and setter of words to cerdd dant and composer of harp airs early age by Edwin Evans in Salem Chapel, Ffordd Las, and his interest was further developed under the influence of the Rev. D.H. Rees. In time, he gained the grade of A.T.S.C. He soon began to conduct choirs and local parties, and also the railway choir which competed many times in the national railway festivals in Birmingham. In the 1940s he and his colleague, Huw Hughes, began to take a serious
LLOYD, WILLIAM VALENTINE (1825 - 1896), co-secretary of the Powysland Club, sometime editor of the Montgomeryshire Collections 1860. In 1879 he was appointed chaplain to H.R.H. admiral the duke of Edinburgh. Retiring in 1882 he was presented to the rectory of Haselbeech, near Northampton, which he held till his death on 17 June 1896. He married, 1850, Caroline Amelia Sophia, only daughter of capt. John Athelmer Aylmer. They had two daughters. He died at Leamington, and was buried in the churchyard of Chirbury. From the first
LLOYD-JONES, DAVID MARTYN (1899 - 1981), minister and theologian early twenties, experienced an evangelical conversion over a period of time. He had witnessed the moral and spiritual vacuum which existed not only among his poorer patients in London's East End, but also with the rich patients who attended the Harley Street clinics. At this time also he had enjoyed the ministry of Dr John A. Hutton at Westminster Chapel, a preacher who believed in God's ability to
LLOYD-JONES, JOHN (1885 - 1956), scholar and poet Born 14 October 1885, son of John and Dorothy Lloyd-Jones, Cartrefle, Dolwyddelan,, Caernarfonshire. He was educated at Llanrwst grammar school and the University College of North Wales, Bangor. He graduated B.A. in 1906 and M.A. in 1909. He took the B.Litt. degree of Oxford University at Jesus College, and then studied under Rudolf Thurneysen at the University of Freiburg. He was appointed first
LLOYD-OWEN, DAVID CHARLES (1843 - 1925), eye specialist his interests. Among them are copies of parish registers and other records, etc., together with transcripts of three books published by his great-grandfather John Owen (1757 - 1829). He married (1868) Anna, daughter of John Green, M.R.C.S., Muxton, Salop. He died on Christmas Day, 1925, at his home, Bron-y-graig, Harlech.
LLWYD, ANGHARAD (1780 - 1866), antiquary Born 15 April 1780 at Caerwys, Flintshire, and died at Ty'n y Rhyl, Rhyl, 16 October 1866. Her father was John Lloyd (1733 - 1793), rector of Caerwys. Angharad was a member of the London Cymmrodorion Society and the recipient of several gold and silver medals awarded at eisteddfodau for prize winning essays. In the Welshpool eisteddfod of 1824 she obtained the second prize for an essay entitled
LLWYD, FFOWC (fl. c. 1580-1620) Fox Hall,, poet and squire son of Siôn Llwyd and his first wife, Sybil, daughter of Richard Glyn. His wife was Alice, daughter of Ffowc ap Thomas ap Gronw. Little is known about him and only a few of his poems remain in MSS. These include those to Sir John Lloyd of Yale (NLW MS 3057D, 962) and Thomas Prys of Plas Iolyn (B.M. Add. MS. 14896, 58); and also one which reveals the poet's acquaintance with contemporary life in

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