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LLOYD, ISAAC SAMUEL (Glan Rhyddallt; 1875 - 1961), quarryman, poet and writer ' Glan Rhyddallt ' in the Gorsedd. He was a weekly columnist with the Herald Cymraeg from 1931 until his death. Under the name of ' Mari Lewis ', his daughter had begun her column a year before her father. He corresponded on a regular basis with Welsh Americans and he wrote an account of Goronwy Owen, Goronwy'r Alltud (1947). He died at Gallt y Sil Hospital, Caernarfon, on 7 July 1961 and he was buried
LLOYD, Sir JOHN EDWARD (1861 - 1947), historian, and first editor of Y Bywgraffiadur Cymreig a First in Honours Classical Moderations, and in 1885 he was placed in the First Class in the final examination in History. His career at Oxford was, thus, nearing its completion before the time of the famous group of Oxford Welshmen (like Owen M. Edwards who went up in October 1884), and it was over before the Dafydd ap Gwilym Society was established in 1886; but of course, he very quickly
LLOYD, LUDOVIC (fl. 1573-1610), courtier, versifier, and compiler note, probably by Lewis Morris, implying that Lloyd was the author. But another note, in the hand of W. Owen Pughe, attributes the poem to Owen Tudor, 'who wrote it in honour of queen Catherine '. The poem has been printed in Mont. Coll., xxii.
LLOYD, MEREDITH (fl. 1655-1677), lawyer and antiquary interesting letter (C. 102) written in 1677 from Lloyd to a kinsman, William Maurice of Llansilin, the famous antiquary, in which he discusses the contents of the Hengwrt library, and urges its sale to William Williams (1634 - 1700), afterwards known as 'Speaker Williams.' Robert Owen, in his Short Historical Sketch of Welshpool, suggests that the subject of this article was the Meredith Lloyd of Brynellin
LLOYD, OWEN MORGAN (1910 - 1980), minister and poet
LLOYD, Sir RICHARD (1606 - 1676) Esclus, royalist and judge both Cardiff and Radnorshire, sitting for the latter till his death on 5 May 1676, when he was buried at Wrexham. Another member of the family (not to mention, for the time being, David Owen, 'Dafydd y Garreg Wen') deserves some attention. A comparison of the charts in J. E. Griffith (Pedigrees, 330, 353, 269) shows that Sir Richard Lloyd had a sister Margaret who married Richard Anwyl of Parc. Their
LLOYD, RICHARD (1595 - 1659), Royalist divine and schoolmaster 5th son of Dafydd Llwyd o'r Henblas; his mother, daughter of Richard Owen Theodor of Penmynydd (sheriff of Anglesey in 1565 and 1573), and distantly related to the royal house, is also credited with some skill in poetry. Richard matriculated from Oriel College, Oxford (3 April 1612), and was presented to the rectory of Sonning and the vicarage of Tilehurst (Berks.), taking his B.D. in 1628 (7 May
LLOYD, ROBERT (1716 - 1792) Plas Ashpool,, farmer and Methodist exhorter South Wales in 1759-1760; and this was the beginning of Methodism in the Vale of Clwyd. It was at Tŷ Modlen that John Owen (1733 - 1776) of Berthen Gron was converted, that Flintshire Methodism started, and that Edward Williams of Glan Clwyd (1750 - 1813) heard Daniel Rowland preach, and was pierced to the quick. Robert Llwyd and Edward Parry of Bryn Bugad (1723 - 1786) were friends and worked
LLOYD, WILLIAM (1717 - 1777), cleric and translator mother was Elizabeth Hughes of Tre'r-dryw; he had (says William Morris) a full brother who was a ship's captain (perhaps the ' Owen Lloyd ' who was christened a year before him at Flint); he had a half-brother; he was nephew of Owen Lloyd, chancellor of Bangor; and he was cousin to William Jones of Trefollwyn (fl. 1718-79), one of the earliest Methodists of Anglesey. Though the Cymmrodorion lists give
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-OWEN, DAVID CHARLES (1843 - 1925), eye specialist Born 5 September 1843, son of the Rev. D. Owen, originally of Darowen, Montgomeryshire, and his wife Sophia (Jeffries), of Bridgnorth. Although he was not born in Wales (but in the Midlands) Lloyd-Owen was Welsh by blood and interests, claiming descent from the old Welsh family associated with Mathafarn, Montgomeryshire; see the pedigree registered by him in the College of Arms. His medical
LLWYD, HUW (Huw Llwyd o Gynfal; 1568? - 1630?), soldier and bard His home was Cynfal Fawr, in the parish of Maentwrog, Merioneth. His father was Dafydd Llwyd ap Howel ap Rhys. It is known that Huw Llwyd and his brother Owen bought much land in that neighbourhood. He fought in France and Holland in a Welsh regiment raised to fight the armies of Spain in the Low Countries. It is thought that he built the present Cynfal house; the poet Huw Machno has a cywydd c

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