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LLEWELLYN, DAVID TREHARNE (1916 - 1992), Conservative politician Artfully (1974), and a volume of Racing Quotations (1988). He wrote a regular column for the Welsh edition of the Sunday People and he also published columns in the Western Mail and its sister evening paper the South Wales Echo. He had married on 18 February 1950 Joan ('Jo') Williams, the second daughter of R. H. Williams of Bonvilston House, Bonvilston, near Cardiff, and they had two sons and a daughter
LLEWELYN, MARY PENDRILL (1811 - 1874), translator and writer Williams (Pantycelyn). It is said that she also translated a number of the ballads of Dafydd Nicolas. She died 19 November 1874.
LLEWELYN, SION (1690 - 1776), poet edition is Difyrrwch diniwaid … sef deunaw o Ganiadau … Gyd a Now o Hymnau duwiol. He was received as a member at the age of 18 into the old Nonconformist chapel of Cwm-y-glo, on the mountain-side between Merthyr and Aberdare by Roger Williams (1667 - 1730), the pastor. This pastor was an Arminian. Ultimately the Arminian members under their minister, Richard Rees, built a new chapel, the Hen Dŷ Cwrdd
LLEWELYN, THOMAS DAVID (Llewelyn Alaw; 1828 - 1879), musician Born 25 June 1828 at Llwydcoed, Aberdare, Glamorganshire, the son of David and Martha Llewelyn. He had learnt to play the harp by the time he was 8. At 11 he started work with his father, a collier, but left the coalmine in 1851 and devoted his whole time to music, poetry, and literature. He became the official harpist to the Williams family of Aberpergwm, in the valley of the river Neath, and to
teulu LLOYD Maesyfelin, lifetime. He was succeeded in his estates by his second natural son CHARLES LLOYD (1662 - 1723), M.P. Politics, Government and Political Movements He was educated at Jesus College, Oxford. He married (1) Jane, daughter of Morgan Lloyd of Greengrove, by whom he had two daughters, and (2) Frances, daughter of Sir Francis Cornwallis of Abermarlais, Carmarthenshire - he had issue by her, two sons and four
teulu LLOYD Peterwell, 1747 until his death in 1755. John Lloyd married (1) Elizabeth, daughter and coheiress of Sir Isaac Le Hemp (or Le Hoop), who is mentioned in Paul Whitehead The State Dunces, and (2) a Miss Savage. He was an intimate friend of many well-known men of the day including Henry Fox (afterwards lord Holland) Sir Charles Hanbury-Williams and Richard Rigby, the paymaster-general. In 1750 he became the owner
teulu LLOYD Dolobran, was one of the Six Clerks of Chancery. He married Jane Gresham, a descendant of Sir Thomas Gresham, founder of the Royal Exchange, and remained a loyal churchman, presenting communion plate to Meifod church. Charles Lloyd (II) joined the Quakers in 1662, and was one of the group imprisoned at Welshpool in that year. His wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Sampson Lort followed him to prison. He was allowed
teulu LLOYD Rhiwaedog, Rhiwedog, bards who are named below, Llywarch Hen, named by them as an ancestor of the Lloyd family, was himself a bard. Today we know (see Ifor Williams, Canu Llywarch Hen, 1935) that he was a chieftain who is the subject of the early Welsh 'saga' contained in the poems associated with his name. The older belief that he was a poet may account (in part only, of course) for the remarkable amount of patronage
teulu LLOYD GEORGE time as a valuer. He was also an elder of Capel Mawr (CM), Cricieth; a disagreement arose between the members which was settled when the minister, John Owen, and about half the membership, including Richard Owen, left Capel Mawr to establish Seion (CM) in Cricieth. Margaret was educated at Dr. Williams' School, Dolgellau; she was a faithful member of Seion chapel, Cricieth, throughout her life. She
LLOYD, DAVID (1805 - 1863), principal of Carmarthen Presbyterian College and Unitarian minister argument and engaged in hot debate with D. A. Williams, chancellor of the diocese of S. Davids, Hugh William Jones (Baptist) of Carmarthen, bishop Thirlwall, and Gwilym Marles, on the tenets of Theodore Parker. He sought to improve education in the town and worked hard to get a hospital and a public cemetery. When he died, Welsh students lost a stalwart friend and the Unitarian movement in the town
LLOYD, DAVID GEORGE (1912 - 1969), singer those who had never gained a first prize, John Williams, Bangor, the adjudicator, prophesied that he would have a brilliant future as a singer, and suggested that the people of Flintshire should help him obtain the musical education necessary to enable him to follow a career as a professional singer. A number of local concerts were held to assist him, and he abandoned his trade in 1933 when he won a
LLOYD, DAVID JOHN (1886 - 1951), headmaster Born 6 March 1886 son of Daniel and Jane Peregrine Lloyd, Swansea, Glamorganshire. He was educated at Swansea Grammar School, 1894-1904; University College, Cardiff, 1904-07, where he graduated in Classics; and Oriel College, Oxford, 1907-11, where he was an exhibitioner, gaining B.A. in 1911 and M.A. in 1914. From 1911-19 he was a teacher at Liverpool Collegiate School except for 1917-19 when he

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