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LLOYD, HUMPHREY (1610 - 1689), bishop of Bangor . At S. Asaph he distinguished himself by his stout and uncompromising opposition to the granting of a lease to Sir Roger Mostyn of the tithes and profits of the rectory of Whitford. In 1673 he removed from Ruabon to the rectory of Gresford, and on 5 January 1673/4 was enthroned bishop of Bangor. By a special Act of Parliament in 1685 he procured the archdeaconries of Bangor and Anglesey, the
LLOYD, JOHN (Einion Môn; 1792 - 1834), schoolmaster and poet Gwyliedydd (1834, 288) describes him as a teacher in ' Sir John Cass's School ' - it is added that two of the duke of Wellington's sons were at that school, and that Lloyd tutored them at their home during vacations. He became a member of the London Gwyneddigion in 1827 (Leathart, Origin … of the Gwyneddigion, 110). He was also a member of the Cymreigyddion, becoming vice-president and official 'bard' of
LLOYD, JOHN (1638 - 1687), principal of Jesus College, Oxford, and bishop of S. Davids the son of Morgan Lloyd of Pendine, he came of an ancient Carmarthenshire family. He matriculated at Merton College, Oxford, 10 March 1656-7, graduated B.A. 1659, M.A. 1662, B.D. on 15 March 1669/70, and D.D. in 1674. He became a Fellow of Jesus College soon after the Restoration, and was senior Fellow when, in 1673, he was elected principal to succeed Sir Leoline Jenkins. He was vice-chancellor
LLOYD, JOHN (1749 - 1815), lawyer and dilettante Notebook of Thomas Rowlands … for 1595-1607 and 1646-53,' which was printed by D. R. Thomas in his edition of Y Cwtta Cyfarwydd. There are also numerous letters written to John Lloyd by such correspondents as Sir Joseph Banks (P.R.S.), the astronomers Herschel and Maskelyne, the engineer Rennie, the antiquaries Lysons, Pennant, Philip Yorke, and Dames Barrington, besides Hester Lynch Piozzi, dean W. D
LLOYD, Sir JOHN CONWAY (1878 - 1954), public figure
LLOYD, Sir JOHN EDWARD (1861 - 1947), historian, and first editor of Y Bywgraffiadur Cymreig other researchers, but the body of the work remains authoritative to this day. It brought him the degree of D. Litt., Oxford, 1918. In 1930 he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (F.B.A.), and it was to that body that he delivered his Sir John Rhŷs Lecture on The Welsh Chronicles, which was published in 1930 - a notable example of the nature of its author's mind. Almost to the end, Lloyd
LLOYD, LEWIS WILLIAM (1939 - 1997), historian and author College of Wales, Aberystwyth (LLB, 1960 with first-class hons.; he was awarded the 'Sir Samuel Evans Prize'), Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge (LLB, 1962; this degree was redesignated LLM in 1985), and the Australian National University, Canberra (Ph.D., 1966 for a thesis on the subject 'The sources and development of Australian mining law'). He was a lecturer in the department of law at the
LLOYD, LUDOVIC (fl. 1573-1610), courtier, versifier, and compiler the favour of queen Elizabeth I and securing from her the reversion of the chapel and tithes of Forden. Five years later he had a grant from the queen of the reversion to the rectory of Llanfair Caereinion for thirty-one years. Although it came to the knowledge of Sir Edward Coke, attorney general, that Lloyd had falsified the deed by altering 'vigint(i)' into 'trigint(a),' thus gaining a ten years
LLOYD, MEREDITH (fl. 1655-1677), lawyer and antiquary Cambro-Briton, i, 410-5; there are also two important letters, one written in 1655, and the other in 1658, bound with Peniarth MS 275. This correspondence shows that Vaughan held Lloyd in high esteem and frequently consulted him about his researches. It was he who was entrusted with the negotiations for securing a loan for his friend of the 'Liber Landavensis' from Sir John Vaughan of Trawsgoed in 1655
LLOYD, Sir RICHARD (1606 - 1676) Esclus, royalist and judge both Cardiff and Radnorshire, sitting for the latter till his death on 5 May 1676, when he was buried at Wrexham. Another member of the family (not to mention, for the time being, David Owen, 'Dafydd y Garreg Wen') deserves some attention. A comparison of the charts in J. E. Griffith (Pedigrees, 330, 353, 269) shows that Sir Richard Lloyd had a sister Margaret who married Richard Anwyl of Parc. Their
LLOYD, SIMON (1756 - 1836), Methodist cleric of Llanycil, for a period whose beginning is uncertain but which lasted till 1800 despite his rector's dislike of Methodism (Jenkins, op. cit., ii, 402, etc.). In May 1800 he was invited by the parishioners of Llanuwchllyn to become curate there; the patron (Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn) assented after some hesitation, but the bishop (in November) flatly refused to institute him. From that time on
LLOYD, THOMAS ALWYN (1881 - 1960), architect and town planner assistant to Sir Raymond Unwin in the Hampstead Garden Suburb. He was appointed, in 1913, the consulting architect to the Welsh Town Planning and Housing Trust and he designed a number of new villages in England and Wales, e.g. in Fishguard, Llanidloes, Menai Bridge and Llangefni as well as St. Francis Church in Barry, St. Margaret, Wrexham, the Students' Union, Cardiff, and housing for the Forestry

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