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LLOYD, WILLIAM (1741 - 1808), Calvinistic Methodist exhorter Born in 1741, son of Dafydd Llwyd of Blaen-clawdd, Caeo, Carmarthenshire. When he was 18 years of age he heard a sermon preached by Peter Williams, which made a deep impression upon him, but it was a year later, after listening to Evan Jones of Lledrod, that he was completely converted. He joined the Independent church at Crug-y-bar, but in 1760 he and a number of other members left the church
LLOYD-JONES, DAVID MARTYN (1899 - 1981), minister and theologian English-language side of its work. An annual ministers' conference was held at Bryn-y-groes, Y Bala, one of the residential centres owned by the Movement, and 'the Dr' was always the main speaker at the end of each conference. His greatest Welsh heroes were Howel Harris, Daniel Rowland and William Williams Pantycelyn. For him, Williams's hymns were a powerful combination of biblical theology and the
LLOYD-JONES, JOHN (1885 - 1956), scholar and poet lost none of those characteristics which his Welsh Nonconformist background had given him. He was one of the chief supporters of the Welsh Presbyterian chapel in Dublin till its closure. He married Freda Williams of Bangor in 1922. He died 1 February 1956 and he was buried in Bryn-y-bedd, Dolwyddelan.
LLWYD, YR USTUS (fl. 14th century), poet Poems by him are found in Jesus Coll. MS. 1, Peniarth MS 118, and NLW MS 4973B. His metres and his poems, as early examples of the compositions of the clêr or wandering poets are discussed by T. Gwynn Jones in Zeitschrift fûr Celtische Philologie, xvii, 167-76. See also G. J. Williams, Traddodiad Llenyddol Morgannwg, 113 and 134.
LLWYD, HUMPHREY (c. 1527 - 1568), antiquary and map-maker magnates in the country would have been an achievement. Though the exact nature of his duties is unknown he is not now thought to have been the Earl's physician as stated by Wood. Ieuan M. Williams lists a number of documents from the Arundel Castle Archives and elsewhere which show Llwyd acting on behalf of the Earl with regard to properties in London, Hampshire and Sussex. It is clear that Llwyd was a
LLYWARCH HEN (fl. 6th century), British prince and a hero of a cycle of Welsh tales dating from the mid-9th century appear in Dwnn (Visitations) and the descent from him of the leading families of Penllyn and the surrounding country, together with the legend of his burial in Llanfor, and the association of his name with the old remains there and elsewhere in Wales. The unravelling of the recorded facts concerning the historical Llywarch from these legendary accretions is the work of Sir Ifor Williams, on whose
LLYWELYN-WILLIAMS, ALUN (1913 - 1988), poet and literary critic Alun Llywelyn-Williams was born on 27 August 1913 in Cardiff, and brought up at 39 Penylan Road, Roath, and 33 Ninian Road, Roath Park where his family moved to live when he was eighteen months old. He was the youngest of three children of Dr David Llewelyn Williams (1870-1949), a Welsh Board of Health Medical Officer originally from Bwlchgwyn, Caerhun, Talybont, in the Conwy Valley, and his wife
LOCKLEY, RONALD MATHIAS (1903 - 2000), farmer, naturalist, conservationist and author Shellard (1893-1989) responded with such envious enthusiasm that Ronald proposed marriage to her. By November he had moved to the island with the help of local fishermen. In February 1928 the schooner Alice Williams ran aground on Skokholm and Ronald paid £5 for the right to salvage the wreck. Timbers from the boat were used to repair the dwelling house, and the salvaged coal lasted several years. On 12
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
MACKWORTH, CECILY JOAN (1911 - 2006), writer, poet, journalist and traveller the Wales of her childhood. The socialist writer Raymond Williams had been born in the same border country just ten years after Mackworth. Although from very different backgrounds, their fiction was influenced by their native landscape. Mackworth's novel Spring's Green Shadow (1952, translated into French in 1956) is set in the shadow of the Skirrid Fawr as well as in Paris. Written in the first
MADDOCKS, ANN (the Maid of Cefn Ydfa; 1704 - 1727) been discovered; that the 'Maid' was in love with the poet ' Wil Hopcyn ' - that he composed the verses ' Watching the White Wheat ' to her - and that she died of a broken heart. This story has been fully discussed by G. J. Williams, in Y Llenor, 1927 and 1928; see also his Traddodiad Llenyddol Morgannwg, 251-9.
MADOG ap GWALLTER, friar, a religious poet or early 14th cents.), which contains a Latin text of the 'Dares Phrygius' and Geoffrey of Monmouth's 'Historia Regum,' we find twenty-six lines of Latin leonine hexameters in which it is stated that Geoffrey had translated Welsh panegyric poems in praise of the ancient valour of the kings of Britain. The author refers to himself as 'Frater Walensis madocus edeirnianensis.' Sir Ifor Williams

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