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teulu LLOYD Leighton, Moel-y-garth, Montgomeryshire Lloyds. From his first marriage descended the Lloyds of Marrington, who disappeared from the land when their estate was sold in 1633. HUMPHREY LLOYD, the eldest child of his second marriage, who inherited Leighton, was closely associated with Sir Richard Herbert (1458 - 1539, in effecting the settlement of mid Wales under the Acts of Union, joining with Herbert to petition for the abolition of
teulu LLOYD Dolobran, been a concubine. The heir was the poet David ap David Lloyd, a juror in Montgomeryshire from 1576 to 1594, otherwise known as Dafydd ap Dafydd Llwyd. His son JOHN LLOYD (born 1575) was also a poet. He lived at Coedcowryd, and his first wife was his second cousin, Catherine, daughter of Humphrey ap John Wyn of Dyffryn, but the wife named in his will was Elizabeth. The will was proved in 1636, and his
LLOYD, DAVID (1724 - 1779), Arian minister Hymnau a Chaniadau by Jenkin Jones, 1768, and his poems printed as Gwaith Prydyddawl Dafydd Llwyd, 1785.
LLOYD, EDWARD (c. 1570 - 1648?) Llwyn-y-maen, belonged to a group of inter-related families of ancient Welsh lineage in north-eastern Powys who resisted the Reformation. His remote ancestor MEURIG LLWYD, from whom the surname is derived, had fought in the French wars of the later middle ages and acquired Llwyn-y-maen through marriage with the heiress of the line of Einion Efell of that place (died 1196), an illegitimate offshoot of the
LLOYD, GEORGE (1560 - 1615), bishop of Chester The fifth son of Meredydd (Lloyd) ap John ap Meredydd Llwyd of Beaumaris, he was born at Bryn Euryn, Llandrillo yn Rhos, which his mother, Jonet Conwy, inherited through her father, Hugh Conwy Fychan, a descendant of Marchudd, founder of one of the fifteen tribes of North Wales. He was a scholar of King's School, Chester, from 1575-9, entering Jesus College, Cambridge, in 1579, and graduating B.A
LLOYD, HUMPHREY (1610 - 1689), bishop of Bangor is in this dispute as well as in that over the Whitford leases that the bishop's ability and pertinacity as a controversialist are seen to advantage. He had no sympathy with the work of Thomas Gouge and the 'Welsh Trust,' and ridiculed the campaign to collect subscriptions for a new Welsh edition of the Bible. Humphrey Humphreys says that Gouge particularly incensed Lloyd by removing the name of
LLOYD, JOHN (1733 - 1793), cleric and antiquary was Angharad Llwyd, and another, Llewelyn (1770 - 1841) was rector of Nannerch (Thomas, op. cit., ii, 422) from 1810 till 184 1. John Lloyd was reckoned something of a scholar in his day. He was a member of the somewhat nebulous committee which was concerned with the preparation of The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales; he was a friend of Philip Yorke's; Warrington acknowledged Lloyd's help in his
LLOYD, JOHN (1558? - 1603), cleric and scholar Born at Denbigh, he was a near relative of Humphrey Llwyd (c. 1527 - 1568). All that is known of him can be read in D.N.B. He was at Winchester and New College, Oxford, was Fellow of New College 1579-96, received the college living of Writtle (Essex) in 1598; died in 1603, and was buried at Writtle. He published Josephus on the Maccabees (with a Latin translation) in 1590, and Barlaam's tract on
LLOYD, MORGAN (1820 - 1893), barrister and politician Born at Cefngellgwm, Trawsfynydd, 14 July 1820, son of Morris Lloyd, farmer. The family is stated to have been a branch of the family of Llwyd of Cynfal. Morgan Lloyd at first intended to become a land surveyor and assisted John Matthews in mapping Trawsfynydd parish in 1839. He afterwards went to the Calvinistic Methodist College at Bala and subsequently to Edinburgh University. Becoming a
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, Sir RICHARD (1606 - 1676) Esclus, royalist and judge The son of Evan Lloyd of Dulasau, Caernarfonshire (not of Primus Lloyd of Marrington, as in D.N.B.). His family had been settled for centuries in the neighbourhood of Penmachno, claiming descent from a bastard son of Dafydd, brother of prince Llywelyn ap Gruffydd; he was nephew to a vicar of Ruabon and first cousin to three other North Wales incumbents, and a bishop of Bangor (Humphrey Lloyd

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