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LLOYD, VAUGHAN (1736 - 1817), general Born at Ffos-y-bleiddiaid (near Ystrad Meurig, Cardiganshire), 17 January 1736, youngest son of John Lloyd and his wife Mary (Phillips, of Pembrokeshire) - on the family (which afterwards removed to Mabws in Llanrhystud), see Some family records … of the Lloyds, by Lloyd-Theakston and Davies (indexed). Lloyd joined the artillery; he was at Minden, 1759, one of the garrison of Gibraltar in 1779-80
LLOYD, Sir WILLIAM (1782 - 1857), soldier and one of the first Europeans to reach the peak of any Himalayan snow-capped mountain Born 29 December 1782, eldest son of Richard Lloyd, a banker of Wrexham, Denbighshire, and his wife Mary, and great-grandson of Thomas Lloyd the lexicologist. He was educated in Ruthin School and then, between 1798 and 1825, he served in the army of the East India Company, attaining the rank of major in the Bengal Infantry. He was captain of the Residency Guard at Nagpur between 1806 and 1820. He
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
LLUELYN, MARTIN (1616 - 1682), poet and physician appointed principal of S. Mary Hall, Oxford. While at Christ Church he was prominent in the production of plays at Oxford, and actually wrote a play for production on the occasion of the king's visit to the university in 1661. But all his published works consist of poetry. In 1664 he left Oxford and settled at High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, where he again practised as a physician, and was made a J.P. and
LLWYD, RICHARD (Bard of Snowdon; 1752 - 1835), poet and authority on Welsh heraldry and genealogy published Gayton Wake, or Mary Dod (Chester 1804) and Poems, Tales, Odes, Sonnets, Translations from the British (Chester, 1804). In 1837 The Poetical Works of Richard Llwyd, The Bard of Snowdon, comprising Beaumaris Bay … with a Portrait and a Memoir of the Author was published. He knew Angharad Llwyd, which probably accounts for the fact that some of his MSS. are in her collection (see Kinmel Park
LLWYD, HUMPHREY (c. 1527 - 1568), antiquary and map-maker was in the service of Lord Stafford, to whom one of the texts is dedicated. Most subsequent biographers have followed Wood. After completing his studies, in 1553 he entered the service of Henry Fitzalan, twelfth Earl of Arundel, and Chancellor of the University at Oxford. With the accession of Mary I in 1553 Arundel was at the height of his power and entering the household of one of the leading
teulu LORT Stackpole, heir in the direct line was JOHN LORT, sheriff in 1775, who was dead by 1778. His daughter ELIZABETH married George Phillips, of Haverfordwest, from whom sprang the family of LORT PHILLIPS. But the last John Lort had an uncle, ROGER LORT, who was mortally wounded at Fontenoy in 1745 (memorial to him and his family in S. Mary's, Tenby - see Laws, Church Book of S. Mary…at Tenby, 84), and had married
LOVELAND, KENNETH (1915 - 1998), journalist and music critic widely known as one of the most urbane music critics, who could have occupied a position in any national daily. Despite his urbanity and contrary to all appearances, he had fully adopted Wales as his home for the last four decades of his life. He and his wife Anne regularly entertained members of the Welsh National Opera Chorus at their modest apartment in Cwmbran. A concert given by the London
LOWE, RICHARD (1810 - 1853), weaver and musician Born in 1810 at Llanidloes, Montgomeryshire, the son of Mathew and Mary Lowe. A weaver by trade, he was taught the elements of music by James and Richard Mills. He was precentor at Llanidloes parish church for many years. Two hymn-tunes by him, ' Pererindod ' and ' Diwygiad,' appeared in Caniadau Seion and its Atodiad (Richard Mills). He moved to Newtown, where he died in 1853.
LYNN-THOMAS, Sir JOHN (1861 - 1939), surgeon theories were set forth by him in a book called The Key of All Wales. Much to his chagrin, however, his conclusions were not acceptable to professional archaeologists. In 1892 he married Mary Rosena, only daughter of Edward Jenkins, Cardiff. He died at Llwyndyrus, 21 September 1939.
MACDONALD, GORDON (first Baron MACDONALD of GWAENYSGOR), (1888 - 1966), politician first chairman of the National Broadcasting Council for Wales throughout the 1950s that he became best well known in Wales. He published speeches and radio addresses he had made in Newfoundland in Newfoundland at the cross roads (1949), and his parliamentary impressions, Atgofion seneddol (1953). He married, 1913, Mary Lewis of Blaenau Ffestiniog and they had four children. He died 20 January 1966
MACKWORTH, Sir HUMPHREY (1657 - 1727), industrialist and parliamentarian Born in January 1657, the son of Thomas and Anne Mackworth, of Betton Grange, Shropshire. (His grandfather and namesake was prominent both as a soldier and as a politician on the Puritan side in the Civil War). Mackworth matriculated from Magdalen College, Oxford, 11 December 1674, entered the Middle Temple on 10 June 1675, was called to the Bar in 1682, and was knighted by Charles II on 15

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