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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 SION (fl. second half of the 16th century), poet, farmer, at one time beadle or crier in the courts, a professional copyist by trade, and one of the most important figures in the literary life of Glamorganshire his reputation to the fact that he was the greatest professional copyist of his time; he was not as prolific a copyist as John Jones (1578? - 1658?) of Gellilyfdy or Robert Vaughan of Hengwrt, but his MSS. are far more systematic and he has kept aloof from contemporary literary prejudices. There are thirteen of his MSS. still in existence - seven being collections of cywyddau and awdlau, one of
LLYWELYN-WILLIAMS, ALUN (1913 - 1988), poet and literary critic Wynford Vaughan Thomas, one of his lifelong friends. Between 1940 and 1945, he felt 'moral obligation' (Gwanwyn yn y Ddinas) to take action against Nazism and served as an officer with the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, the 'literary' regiment in which Hedd Wyn, Robert Graves, Llywelyn Wyn Griffith, David Jones and Siegfried Sassoon served during the First World War. After joining the army in November 1940, he
LOUGHER, ROBERT (bu farw 1585?), civil lawyer and ecclesiastical administrator , an office he retained until his death at Tenby in June, 1583 or 1585. His second son, ROBERT LOUGHER, entered Middle Temple 25 February 1599.
LOVEGROVE, EDWIN WILLIAM (1868 - 1956), schoolmaster and an authority on Gothic architecture , Grimsby; Stamford; and Ruthin, 1913-30. He married (1), 1899, Septima Jane Roberts (died 30 April 1928), sister of William Rhys Roberts, and they had a son, Wynne, who fell at Dunkirk, and two daughters. He married (2), Kathleen Agnes Sanders. After retiring he lived at St. Asaph, 1930-31; Chipping Campden, 1932-41; Abergavenny, 1942-45; and at Fownhope, Herefordshire until he died, 11 March 1956. He
LOWE, WALTER BEZANT (1854 - 1928), antiquary expense, and especially The Heart of Northern Wales, which originally (1911) was intended to be mainly a revised edition of the History of Aberconwy by Robert Williams (1810 - 1881), but was expanded into a two-volume book (1912 and 1927) of much wider compass. Besides this work, Lowe published (1906) a reprint of John Wynn of Gwydir's Survey of Penmaenmawr; Abbeys and Convents of the Vale of Conway
LOYD, LEWIS (1767 - 1858), banker retired to his seat at Overstone, where he died 13 May, 1858. His only son, SAMUEL JONES (Loyd ?) (1796 - 1883), who succeeded to the banking business, sat in Parliament as Liberal member for Hythe, from 1819-26 and was created baron Overstone in 1850. He left one daughter who married Robert James Loyd-Lindsay, afterwards lord Wantage.
MACKWORTH, Sir HUMPHREY (1657 - 1727), industrialist and parliamentarian Cardiff from 1765 to 1790, father and son thus having represented the same constituency for fifty-one years. But in 1790 he was forced to retire when the heir to earl Bute came of age and required the seat. Herbert Mackworth was created a baronet in 1776. His son, Sir ROBERT HUMPHREY MACKWORTH (1764 - 1794) died without issue.
teulu MADRYN Madryn, Llŷn younger branches settled at Carngiwch and Llannerch-fawr. One of them, THOMAS MADRYN, was in the age of Elizabeth, together with other squires of Llŷn, in serious trouble on account of the unscrupulous schemes of the earl of Leicester; his son, ROBERT MADRYN, married into the house of Bodvel (first wife) and that of Cefn Amwlch (second). His grandson was THOMAS MADRYN, the greatest of the family
teulu MANSEL Oxwich, Penrice, Margam abbey, . Following him came RICHARD (ROBERT ?) MANSEL, RICHARD MANSEL, Sir HUGH MANSEL (who married Isabel, daughter and heiress of Sir John Penrice of Penrice castle in Gower), and PHILIP MANSEL, slain in the Wars of the Roses and attainted. Philip Mansel's wife was Mary, daughter of Gruffudd ap Nicolas of Newton; their son JENKIN MANSEL of Oxwich, ' The Valiant,' had the attainder reversed in 1485. It was Sir
MANSEL, Sir ROBERT (1573 - 1656), admiral John Hollond, and A Discourse of the Navy, by Sir Robert Slyngesbie (ed. Tanner, 1896), (ii) The Autobiography of Phineas Pett (ed. Perrin, 1918), (iii) The Naval Tracts of Sir William Monson (ed. Oppenheim, 5 vols., 1902-1914). It may be added that these contemporary naval papers suggest that Mansell's appointment as vice-admiral in 1618 was not in fact a promotion, but rather a deliberate removal
MARC, SIARL (1720 - 1795) Tŷ-mawr, Bryncroes, Llŷn, Calvinistic Methodist exhorter, and hymn-writer After his conversion about 1741 he became far and away the most important exhorter in his part of Wales. He is thought to have been a carpenter by trade. He had changed his home three or four times before settling at Tŷ-mawr farm, Bryncroes. This is what Robert Jones of Rhos-lan says about him in Drych yr Amseroedd : 'He was a man of great intelligence, strong in the true doctrine, and clearly

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