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LLOYD, LUDOVIC (fl. 1573-1610), courtier, versifier, and compiler Twyne's translation of Lhuyd's Breviary of Britaine, 1573, William Blandy's The Castle or picture of pollicy, 1581, and Henry Perry's Egluryn Phraethineb, 1595. In the same way, contemporary poets like Thomas Churchyard and Edward Grant contributed verses to Lloyd's work, The Pilgrimage of Princes, 1573. In B.M. Add. MS. 14965 (6) there is a long eulogy, in twenty-six verses, of queen Elizabeth, with a
LLOYD, MORGAN (1820 - 1893), barrister and politician . M. Wynne, of Peniarth, the official Liberal candidate being Henry Robertson, of Pale. Lloyd was defeated although he was strongly supported in the Ffestiniog and surrounding districts. He left Gladstone on the Home Rule issue and in 1892 unsuccessfully contested Anglesey county as a Liberal-Unionist. He was interested in Welsh educational movements; he was sub-treasurer of the 1863 committee to
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-JONES, DAVID MARTYN (1899 - 1981), minister and theologian Martyn Lloyd-Jones was born in Cardiff, the second of three sons born to Henry Lloyd-Jones and Magdalene or 'Maggie' Lloyd-Jones (née Evans), on 20 December 1899. The family home was in Donald Street, Cathays, and the father was a grocer by trade. Because of the father's health, the family moved from Cardiff to Llangeitho during the spring of 1906, to keep a general store, which included the sale
LLWYD, HUMPHREY (c. 1527 - 1568), antiquary and map-maker Humphrey Llwyd was born in about 1527 at Denbigh, the only child of Robert Llwyd, Clerk of Works at Denbigh Castle, and Joan (born 1507), daughter of Lewis Piggott. A member of a cadet branch of the Llwyd-Rossendale family of Foxhall, Henllan, Denbighshire, he could trace his ancestry back to Henry (Harri) Rossendale of Rossendale, Lancashire, a liege of Henry de Lacy, Earl of Lincoln and Lord of
LLYWELYN ap GRUFFYDD (bu farw 1282), Prince of Wales and the conclusion of the peace of Woodstock with Henry III in 1247, he had for eight years to share with Owen a much diminished realm west of the Conway. But by his victory over Owain and a younger brother, Dafydd, at Bryn Derwin, in 1255, he took the first step towards re-consolidating the undivided territorial power once exercised by Llewelyn I. Between 1256 and 1267 he experienced a period of
LLYWELYN ap IORWERTH (fl. 1173-1240), prince concluded with the ' Pact of Middle ' (1234) which virtually established peace for the remainder of Llywelyn's life. He hoped to preserve the integrity of his dominions by introducing primogeniture in place of the native custom of partible succession, and a step towards that end had already been taken when, in 1229, Henry III had acknowledged Dafydd, Joan's son, as Llywelyn's sole successor, to the
LLYWELYN FAWR (fl. early 13th century), lords of Merioneth The sons of Maredudd ap Cynan. In spite of the breach between their father and Llywelyn I, they were friendly towards Llywelyn from 1215 onwards. The lordship of Merioneth, lost to the family in 1202, may indeed have been restored to them as early as 1221. Though they were confirmed in possession of the 'cantref' by Henry III in 1241, both fought on the side of Dafydd II in 1245. After that date
LOCKLEY, RONALD MATHIAS (1903 - 2000), farmer, naturalist, conservationist and author Walden by Henry David Thoreau. With the help of his mother he secured ten acres of land seven or so miles away close to St Mellons, in Monmouthshire at the time, and with his eldest sister Enid established a smallholding. It began with poultry, but a naturalist's paradise was planned complete with an island in a flooded hollow. An attempt to visit Steepholm failed but he and an older neighbouring
teulu LORT Stackpole, GEORGE LORT came from Staffordshire to Pembrokeshire c. 1567 as steward of the Stackpole estate under Margaret Stanley; later on he bought the estate. His heir was his son ROGER LORT (1555? - 1613), sheriff in 1607; then came HENRY LORT (sheriff in 1619), who was said to have been deeply involved in smuggling on the Pembrokeshire coast. Henry had three sons: ROGER (who lived at Stackpole); JOHN
MACKWORTH, CECILY JOAN (1911 - 2006), writer, poet, journalist and traveller discovering this, Helen also took her own life. She was buried in her wedding gown. Having lost her father, husband and only sibling whilst still in her twenties, Mackworth reinvented herself in Paris. She spent the late 1930s relishing the heady atmosphere of bohemian Paris, joining an international community of writers and artists. Henry Miller published her first poetry collection (Eleven Poems) in 1938
MADOG ap MAREDUDD (bu farw 1160), king of Powys Tomen-y-Rhodwydd at the southern end of the Vale of Clwyd, Madog, in alliance with Ranulf, earl of Chester, unsuccessfully challenged Owain's advance, losing, for a time, the control of his lands in Iâl.This loss was retrieved in 1157 when Henry II, with Madog's support, made a decisive assertion of authority in North Wales. When he died three years later he was still friendly with his powerful patron

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