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LLWYD, ROBERT (1565 - 1655), cleric and writer
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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
LOCKLEY, RONALD MATHIAS (1903 - 2000), farmer, naturalist, conservationist and author one of the first live television broadcasts showed him being attacked by the bird as he opened the basket. Lockley helped to establish the Pembrokeshire Bird Protection Society in 1938; it later became the highly effective West Wales Field Society, producing from 1955 the publication Nature in Wales with Lockley as one of its editors. In the second half of the 1940s Lockley was at the heart of the
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.
LOWE, WALTER BEZANT (1854 - 1928), antiquary he developed a keen interest in the antiquities of Gwynedd; he was one of the early members of the Llandudno Field Club and for many years edited its Proceedings; he was also a member of the Cambrian Archaeological Association, and contributed articles, e.g. 'The Price Families of Plas Iolyn and Gilar' (1912) to Archæologia Cambrensis Better known than these are his books, published at his own
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, CECILY JOAN (1911 - 2006), writer, poet, journalist and traveller Cecily Mackworth was born in the Mardy (Maerdy) within the parish of Llantilio Pertholey (Llandeilo Bertholau) near Abergavenny, Monmouthshire on 15 August 1911, the eldest child of Francis Julian Audley Mackworth (1876-1914) and his wife Dorothy Conran (née Lascelles, 1883-1976). Her father was from an old south Walian family of distinguished soldiers. He served in the Royal Field Artillery and
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.
MACLEAN, Sir EWEN JOHN (1865 - 1953), first professor of obstetrics and gynaecology at the Welsh National School of Medicine Obstetrics and Gynaecology and in 1926 he presented the medical school with £3,000 in order to endow the Ewen Maclean Research Scholarship to promote research in the field of midwifery. Maclean was also skilful in his selection of departmental colleagues, notably his first assistant, Gilbert Strachan, who, during the 1920s, established a formidable reputation as a researcher, being acknowledged as a

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