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LLOYD, HANNIBAL EVANS (1771 - 1847), author and translator Born in London, son of Henry Lloyd (see article on him) described as a native of Cwmbychan, a farm in the parish of Llanbedr, Meironnydd. His mother was a descendant of the Garnetts of Yorkshire. Having lost his parents when young, he was brought up by relatives. In 1800 he settled at Hamburg in Germany, and later fought in defence of that city against the French. Returning to England in July
LLOYD, HENRY (c. 1720 - 1783), soldier and military writer
LLOYD, HENRY (Ap Hefin; 1870 - 1946), poet and printer
LLOYD, JOHN (1833 - 1915), political reformer and antiquary very valuable work as an antiquary. Involved in disputes on manorial rights and ancient customs, he had formed a good collection of historical documents; and he also rescued a mass of papers from the office of Henry Maybery, a Brecon attorney much concerned in the affairs of some of the early South Wales ironmasters, treasurer of the county, and deputy-registrar of the consistory court. Lloyd
LLOYD, JOHN (1480 - 1523), musician named among those receiving livery for the funeral of prince Henry. He composed much ecclesiastical music - masses and motets; for two pieces by him see B.M. Add. MS. 31922. John Hawkins in his History of Music, has this note: ' John Floyd of Welsh extraction, Bachelor of Music, and a gentleman of the Chapel Royal, temp. Henry VIII. He made a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, returned, and died in the King's
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

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