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LLOYD, OWEN MORGAN (1910 - 1980), minister and poet Library building. He was also a member of Gorsedd y Beirdd under the bardic name Dyfrdwy. It was no surprise, therefore, that his son developed a love of books and literature, particularly poetry, mastering the art of cynghanedd in his teens. The family were faithful and active members of Jerusalem Independent church, and after leaving Ffestiniog County School O. M. Lloyd went to Bala-Bangor College to
LLOYD, Sir RICHARD (1606 - 1676) Esclus, royalist and judge The son of Evan Lloyd of Dulasau, Caernarfonshire (not of Primus Lloyd of Marrington, as in D.N.B.). His family had been settled for centuries in the neighbourhood of Penmachno, claiming descent from a bastard son of Dafydd, brother of prince Llywelyn ap Gruffydd; he was nephew to a vicar of Ruabon and first cousin to three other North Wales incumbents, and a bishop of Bangor (Humphrey Lloyd
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 he was promoted from one high office to another, became a prebendary of S. Paul's, chaplain to the princess Mary, and preached the funeral sermon, alive with anti-Popery, of Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey (1678). He was Protestant of Protestants and an uncompromising Anglican, as was witnessed when he became archdeacon of Merioneth in 1668, dean of Bangor in 1672, and especially when he was appointed
LLOYD-JONES, JOHN (1885 - 1956), scholar and poet Born 14 October 1885, son of John and Dorothy Lloyd-Jones, Cartrefle, Dolwyddelan,, Caernarfonshire. He was educated at Llanrwst grammar school and the University College of North Wales, Bangor. He graduated B.A. in 1906 and M.A. in 1909. He took the B.Litt. degree of Oxford University at Jesus College, and then studied under Rudolf Thurneysen at the University of Freiburg. He was appointed first
LLYWELYN ap GUTUN (fl. c. 1480), poet A number of his poems remain in MSS., including an elegy composed to his son Gruffudd, 'begging' poems requesting a dog, some goats, and spectacles, a satire or lampoon addressed to the dean of Bangor (who had instructed Huw Lewis, Y Chwaen, to imprison the poet, rather than allow him to make a 'begging' journey or cymortha in Bodeon and Aberdaron), and another satire to dean Richard Kyffin, Rhys
LLYWELYN ap GWILYM ap RHYS (fl. 16th century), poet Some examples of his work remain in MSS. These include an elegy to the last Sir William Griffith of Penrhyn (NLW MS 5273D (78b)); Swansea MS. 1 (246), a poem on Christ's image at Bangor, NLW MS 3048D (72), and, probably, the poem which is found in Cardiff MSS. 7 (421), 64 (658), 65 (64), and Cwrtmawr MS 23B (162b).
LLYWELYN-WILLIAMS, ALUN (1913 - 1988), poet and literary critic deprive the survivors of hope for the future. After his discharge from the army in 1946 he returned to the BBC for a while as Organiser of Radio Talks in Bangor until 1948, before being appointed as Director of the Extra-mural Department at the University College of North Wales, a post in which he remained for the rest of his professional career. He was awarded a Personal Chair in 1975, and was made
LOVEGROVE, EDWIN WILLIAM (1868 - 1956), schoolmaster and an authority on Gothic architecture Born in the first half of 1868, eldest son of Edwin Lovegrove, curate of Woodside, Horsforth near Leeds, and his wife. He was educated at Merchant Taylor's School, Crosby and was a scholar of New College, Oxford, where he graduated with first-class honours in Mathematics. He taught at Giggleswick, Yorkshire, Friars School, Bangor and Trent College before becoming headmaster of schools at Clee
LOWE, WALTER BEZANT (1854 - 1928), antiquary (with Thomas Elias, 1912); Llansannan (1915); and several guidebooks and maps. His health broke down, and in 1926 he moved to Bangor, where he died 7 May 1928.
teulu MADRYN Madryn, Llŷn made it easy for his relative, Thomas Meredith, headmaster of the Friars School at Bangor, to go up to London in 1647 to secure moneys that were due to the school, and sat himself on a committee appointed in 1650 to examine the Friars ' accounts; through his Anglesey marriage, with a daughter of Plas Llandegfan, he enabled his relative, Evan Lloyd, rector of Rhoscolyn, to secure another living in
MARSDEN, THOMAS (1802 - 1849), cleric and author 48th year says his tombstone. In 1838 he published Chwech ar Hugain o Bregethau; in 1843 another twenty-six sermons; and in 1848 a volume of hymns and other verse, entitled The Poet's Orchard, in which it is stated that he also published a letter against the proposed union of Bangor and St Asaph dioceses.

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