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LLOYD, Sir RICHARD (1606 - 1676) Esclus, royalist and judge , 1610 - 1688). He entered the Inner Temple in 1631, was employed on missions abroad in 1635-6, and on his return was given the reversion to the office of prothonotary and clerk to the Crown in Denbighshire and Montgomeryshire. He attended Charles I on the Scottish campaign of 1639, and was subsequently made attorney general for North Wales, in which capacity he was very active from August 1641 to
LLOYD, SIMON (1756 - 1836), Methodist cleric , Simon (born 1756), is the subject of the present notice. He is said to have been schooled at Bath, and a letter by Thomas Charles (D. E. Jenkins, Thomas Charles, i, 153) shows that he also went to Queen Elizabeth's school at Carmarthen. In April 1775 he went to Jesus College, Oxford, graduating in 1779 (Foster, Alumni Oxonienses). He was ordained, and was curate at Olveston from 1779 till 1783; then
LLOYD, Sir THOMAS DAVIES (1820 - 1877), baronet, landowner, and politician Born 21 May 1820, eldest son of Thomas Lloyd of Bronwydd, Cardiganshire, (high sheriff in 1814), and Anne Davies, daughter of John Thomas of Llwydcoed and Llety-mawr, Carmarthenshire. He was educated at Harrow and Christ Church, Oxford. He married, December 1846, Henrietta Mary, daughter of George Reid of Bunker's Hill, Jamaica, and Watlington, Oxfordshire, by Louisa, daughter of Sir Charles
LLOYD, Sir WALTER (1580 - 1662?) Llanfair Clydogau, Royalist quarters and adhering to that party. ' He became a commissioner of array for Charles I in 1642, and was knighted in 1643. He was fined £1,003 9s. 0d. by Parliament in 1647, and his estates were sequestered in 1651. Sir Walter lived to see the Restoration, but died c. 1662; Katherine Philipps ('The Matchless Orinda'), who had lived in the town of Cardigan, composed a poem in his honour. He was described
LLOYD, WILLIAM (1771 - 1841), Methodist cleric - Lloyd, Thomas Charles, and Simon Lloyd, who remained faithful to the Methodists after the 1811 ordination. He died 10 April 1841, and was buried in Llanbeblig churchyard; [the statement on his tombstone that he was a Fellow of Jesus finds no corroboration either in Foster or in the list of Fellows in Hardy, Jesus College ].
LLOYD-OWEN, DAVID CHARLES (1843 - 1925), eye specialist
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
LOCKLEY, RONALD MATHIAS (1903 - 2000), farmer, naturalist, conservationist and author . Unfortunately the wild rabbit population recovered and by 1934 the Lockleys decided that the best source of income would be his writing. There were two further attempts to reduce the rabbit population in the late 1930s, firstly and unsuccessfully, through the release of the myxoma virus by the physiologist Sir Charles Martin; secondly and relatively successfully, through the blowing of a cyanide compound as
teulu LORT Stackpole, Quaker, Charles Lloyd (II) of Dolobran. On the other hand Roger alone made some show of service in arms for the king. It is believed that Sampson, too, favoured the Restoration; he must have been dead by 1670, for the owner of a seven-hearth house in Manorbier in 1670 was a Thomas Lort (W. Wales Hist. Records, x, 190). Roger Lort was a man who loved his ease, and was fond of composing Latin epigrams
LOVE, CHRISTOPHER (1618 - 1651), Presbyterian minister to Venn's regiment. He preached before Parliament, 25 November 1645. In 1647 he was minister of S. Ann's, Aldersgate, and later at S. Lawrence Jewry. From 1648 he was minister of S. Bartholomew's, Exchange. Arrested on 14 May 1651 he was accused of treason against the Commonwealth, by corresponding with the exiled Charles Stuart. The trial ended 5 July and he was condemned to death. The execution
LOVELAND, KENNETH (1915 - 1998), journalist and music critic Kenneth Loveland was born on 12 October 1915 in Sheerness, Kent, the son of Charles John Loveland, described in the 1911 census as a 'salesman and outfitter' (born c.1886), and his wife Winifred Jane (née Wraight c.1885). His first experience of music was through listening to the radio, but his subsequent encounters with live music at concerts at London's Queen's Hall left an indelible impression
LYNE, HORACE SAMPSON (1860 - 1949), president of the Welsh Rugby Union, 1906-1947 Born at Newport, Monmouthshire, 31 December 1860, son to Charles Lyne, mayor of the town in 1856 and 1884. He was educated in Plymouth and the Royal Naval College. By profession, he was a solicitor. At eighteen, he played as a back for Newport rugby club, but it was as a skilful forward that he found success, as the captain of the club in 1883-84, and being capped six times for Wales, 1883-85. In

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