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LEWIS, TIMOTHY (1877 - 1958), Welsh and Celtic scholar churches in the Clunderwen area, but died aged 34; another son was Thomas John who graduated at University College, Bangor. He was a schoolteacher in Aberdare, and rose to be director of education for Aberdare. The poet, Alun Lewis, was his son. Most probably Timothy Lewis left school at the age of 13 and worked in the mines until he was 22. It is also likely that he had began preaching by then and set
LLEWELYN, WILLIAM CRAVEN (1892 - 1966), colliery owner, companies director, agriculturalist and specialist in forestry Born 4 June 1892 in Clydach, Swansea Valley, Glamorganshire, son of T. David Llewelyn. He married Doris Mary Bell in 1932. There were no children of the marriage. He was educated at Arnold College, Swansea, and the Technical College, Swansea, and subsequently graduated at the University College of North Wales, Bangor. Initially he was particularly interested in a mining career and to this end
teulu LLOYD Rhiwaedog, Rhiwedog, -mentioned bards, although he also wrote poetry to one member of the family. It is of far greater importance that Rowland Vaughan dedicated his best-known work, Yr Ymarfer o Dduwioldeb - a translation of The Practice of Piety by Lewes Bayly, bishop of Bangor - to Margaret, sole heiress of Sir John Lloyd of Ceiswyn, serjeant-at-law, and wife of John Lloyd of Rhiwaedog. Of greater interest even than the
LLOYD GEORGE, DAVID (the first Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor), (1863 - 1945), statesman January 1934, in a speech at Bangor, he outlined his programme for re-establishing national prosperity-the ' New Deal ' policy-to be carried out by the Council of Action. From 1933 to 1936 he wrote his War Memoirs : his The truth about the peace treaties was published in 1938. In August 1936, he visited Germany and met Hitler. When war came in 1939 he took no part in its direction but remained a member
LLOYD, DANIEL LEWIS (1843 - 1899), schoolmaster and bishop headmaster of the grammar school there; in 1873 he went to Friars School, Bangor, as headmaster, and in 1878 to Christ College, Brecon. In each of these schools he did much to raise the standard of work and the number of the pupils, and he was instrumental in helping promising boys on. In 1890 he was appointed bishop of Bangor, but ill-health soon impeded his activity, and he resigned in 1899. He retired
LLOYD, DAVID (1805 - 1863), principal of Carmarthen Presbyterian College and Unitarian minister Born in 1805 at Llandysul, son of John Lloyd, schoolmaster, and grandson of David Lloyd (1724 - 1779) of Brynllefrith, his mother being the daughter of the Rev. Henry Thomas, parish priest of Bangor Teifi and Henllan. He was educated at his father's school, his uncle Dr. Charles Lloyd's school, the Rev. John Thomas of Pantydefaid's school, Carmarthen Academy (1825-9), and Glasgow University (1829
LLOYD, DAVID GEORGE (1912 - 1969), singer those who had never gained a first prize, John Williams, Bangor, the adjudicator, prophesied that he would have a brilliant future as a singer, and suggested that the people of Flintshire should help him obtain the musical education necessary to enable him to follow a career as a professional singer. A number of local concerts were held to assist him, and he abandoned his trade in 1933 when he won a
LLOYD, DAVID TECWYN (1914 - 1992), literary critic, author, educationalist gaining his Higher School Certificate he went to the University College of North Wales Bangor where he graduated in Welsh in 1938 and then followed a teacher training course. However, apart from a few months after graduating when he was a supply teacher in Bala and Llanuwchllyn, and in his own primary school in Glanrafon between leaving the grammar schol and entering university, Tecwyn Lloyd never
LLOYD, EVAN (1728 - 1801) Maes-y-porth,, antiquary and poet Bangor MS. 5944 were once in his possession. His name is also found in iarth MS 160. B.M. Add. MS. 15010 contains genealogies copied from a work in his possession, and the pedigrees found in Bangor MSS. 6946-7020 may have been compiled by him. He also gained some repute as a poet, and examples of his compositions and translations can be seen in Bangor MSS. 5944 and 5947. Poems addressed to him are
LLOYD, GEORGE (1560 - 1615), bishop of Chester . in 1583, M.A. 1586, B.D. 1593, D.D. 1598. He became a Fellow of Magdalene, c. 1586, sinecure rector of Llanrwst, 1597, of Heswall, 1597-1613, and of Bangor Iscoed, 1612-5. In 1600 he was consecrated bishop of Sodor and Man, exchanging the see in December 1604 for that of Chester, where he reversed the anti-Puritan policy of his Welsh predecessor Richard Vaughan, formerly bishop of Bangor. He died 1
LLOYD, GRIFFITH RICHARD MAETHLU (1902 - 1995), college principal and minsister (B) . At the age of 11, he was baptised by his father in Hebron Baptist Church, Holyhead, on 3 August 1913, his membership being transferred to Soar, Llanfaethlu, on 7 October 1913. It was there, ultimately, under the ministry of John Lewis, that he was raised to the ministry and began preaching. In 1919, during the pioneering days of the Agricultural Department in Bangor University College, he enrolled
LLOYD, HUMPHREY (1610 - 1689), bishop of Bangor John Williams, who had made him his chaplain; but his installation was prevented by the advance of the Scottish army. At the Restoration he was restored to Ruabon, successfully petitioned for the Ampleforth prebend, but failed in his bid for the deanery of Bangor. In 1663, however, he succeeded to the place of Dr. David Lloyd as dean of St Asaph, with the rectory of Henllan annexed to that deanery

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