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LLOYD, MORGAN (1820 - 1893), barrister and politician . In 1868 he contested, unsuccessfully, the Anglesey boroughs as an advanced Liberal. He stood again in 1874 and was returned, although opposed by a Conservative and a Liberal candidate. He held the seat until 1885, when it was merged in the county division, and in that year he contested Merioneth as an unofficial Liberal candidate, thus splitting the Liberal vote. The Conservative candidate was W. R
LLOYD, OWEN MORGAN (1910 - 1980), minister and poet Em i Em. And in 1981 Cymdeithas Barddas published a selection of his poetry, Barddoniaeth O. M. Lloyd. In 1997 Gwasg Y Dydd published O Gader Idris - a selection of his columns from Y Dydd. Six of his hymns are included in Caneuon Ffydd. O. M. Lloyd died on 1 February 1980 in the Caernarfonshire and Anglesey Infirmary, Bangor.
LLOYD, RICHARD (1771 - 1834), Calvinistic Methodist minister Born at Nantdaenog, Llantrisant, Anglesey, sixth child of William Lloyd and his wife Jane - she was a daughter of the famous old dissenter William Prichard (1702 - 1773) of Clwchdernog. His paternal grandfather was David Lloyd ap Rhys (J. E. Griffith, Pedigrees, 100), and in his articles in Goleuad Cymru, Richard Lloyd used to sign himself ' Rhisiart William Dafydd.' He joined the Methodist
LLOYD, RICHARD (1595 - 1659), Royalist divine and schoolmaster 5th son of Dafydd Llwyd o'r Henblas; his mother, daughter of Richard Owen Theodor of Penmynydd (sheriff of Anglesey in 1565 and 1573), and distantly related to the royal house, is also credited with some skill in poetry. Richard matriculated from Oriel College, Oxford (3 April 1612), and was presented to the rectory of Sonning and the vicarage of Tilehurst (Berks.), taking his B.D. in 1628 (7 May
LLOYD, WILLIAM (1717 - 1777), cleric and translator His antecedents can be established by collating Morris Letters, ii, 158; J. E. Griffith, Pedigrees, 93, and church records at N.L.W. He was of the family of Merddyn Gwyn, Pentraeth, Anglesey, though Lewis Morris confused him with William Lloyd of Trallwyn in Eifionydd (see Griffith, op. cit., 212). His father was also a William Lloyd, an exciseman, who was chorister in Bangor cathedral; his
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
LLOYD, WILLIAM (1771 - 1841), Methodist cleric Born in 1771, son of Robert and Elinor Lloyd of Pen-y-maes, Nevin, Caernarfonshire; his father had a small estate in Llannor. He was educated at ysgol ramadeg Botwnnog and Jesus College, Oxford; ordained in 1801, and licensed to Rhoscolyn, Llanfair yn Neubwll, and Llanfihangel, Anglesey. It was not long before he joined the Methodists; [and he was deprived in 1805 in consequence]. He lived for a
LLWYD, RICHARD (Bard of Snowdon; 1752 - 1835), poet and authority on Welsh heraldry and genealogy been living in Chester since 1807. He was elected an honorary member of the Cymmrodorion Society in 1824. One of his last acts was to place in the B.M. the 'Branwen ferch Llŷr' sepulchral urn discovered in 1813 on the banks of the river Alaw, Anglesey. He died 29 December 1835, and was buried in S. John's churchyard, Chester. Beaumaris Bay, Llwyd's best known work, was published in 1800. He also
LLWYD, HUMPHREY (c. 1527 - 1568), antiquary and map-maker Abraham Ortelius. The first of these is a letter sent by Llwyd to Ortelius on 5 April 1568. The letter known by its opening 'De Mona Druidum insula' is chiefly concerned with the derivation of the Welsh name for Anglesey and also its antiquities. This letter seems to have been a response to the queries posed by Ortelius during their meeting in Antwerp in 1567. After Llwyd's death Ortelius published the
LLYWARCH ap BRAN (fl. c. 1137), founder of one of the 'Fifteen (Noble) Tribes of Gwynedd' is described as brother-in-law of Owain Gwynedd, their wives being daughters of Gronw ab Owain ab Edwin, lord of Tegeingl. Like Hwfa ap Cynddelw, he is said to have been steward to Owain Gwynedd and to have lived in the township of Tref Llywarch, Anglesey; he is also described as lord of the commote of Menai, Anglesey. For the names of some of the families who claimed descent from him see Philip
LLYWARCH ap LLYWELYN (fl. 1173-1220) Gwynedd, court-poet Welsh from Anglesey to Monmouth. His delight at the rise of Llywelyn the Great can, therefore, be well understood. Nine poems to his hero written at different stages in that prince's career are extant, and he became his chief court poet. The ' Longer Poem ' was apparently occasioned by Llywelyn's advance towards Powys, and the poet appeals to the men of that province as a Welshman, pleading that it is
MAB Y CLOCHYDDYN (fl. c. 1380), poet He is reputed to have been a native of Llanafan-fawr, Brecknock. Two examples of his work are found in the 'Red Book of Hergest' and a number of other manuscripts. They are an elegy to Gwenhwyfar, daughter of Madog and wife of Hywel ap Tudur ap Gruffudd of Anglesey, and two englynion.

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