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LLOYD, CHARLES (bu farw 1698), squire of Maesllwch in Radnorshire (in his later days) and Independent elder life he got into trouble with the ecclesiastical authorities at Brecon because he had married (as third wife) the daughter of his second wife's brother, but nothing effective seems to have happened as he refers to 'my dear wife Anne ' in his last will of 1696. That will casts a good deal of light on his family connections (especially through his second and third marriages) with the Puritan Watkins
LLOYD, DAVID (1805 - 1863), principal of Carmarthen Presbyterian College and Unitarian minister -33; M.A. 1833, LL.D. 1851). According to Oriel Coleg Presbyteraidd Caerfyrddin he was appointed tutor in classics in 1833 and principal in 1835, an appointment which he held until his death in 1863 [with him it becomes customary to replace the old name 'Academy' by 'College']. During his earlier years at Carmarthen he also kept a grammar school, thus carrying on a family tradition, and indeed the
LLOYD, DAVID TECWYN (1914 - 1992), literary critic, author, educationalist a brother to Robert (Bob) Lloyd, and Reverend Trebor Lloyd Evans, Morriston, and Aled Lloyd Davies were his cousins. Tecwyn Lloyd claimed that he could trace his family back to Rhirid Flaidd. After his early education at Llawrybetws primary school where the headteacher, Rhys Gruffydd, was, he said, an important influence on him, he proceeded to Bala Boys' Grammar School (Ysgol Tytandomen). After
LLOYD, EVAN (1764 - 1847), Unitarian Baptist minister this family for 120 years, with a break of only five years; other members of the family figure in the annals of other Unitarian churches. The two chapels are still in use - they, and the chapel at Pant Teg (Carmarthenshire - see under William Thomas, died 1813), are now the only ' General Baptist ' chapels in Wales.
LLOYD, GEORGE (1560 - 1615), bishop of Chester August 1615, and was buried in Chester cathedral, where he is commemorated by a mural inscription (text in Ormerod, Cheshire, 1882 ed., i, 192). In the year of his death he bought Pant Iocyn, near Wrexham, formerly the residence of the Almer family, which remained the home of his family till 1634.
LLOYD, JACOB YOUDE WILLIAM (Chevalier Lloyd; 1816 - 1887), historian and antiquary October 1841 and December 1842, and became a Roman Catholic. When he inherited his mother's estate in 1856 he lavished a great deal of it on his new religion. In 1868 he obtained a royal licence to change his name from Hinde to Lloyd, which was the old name of the Clochfaen family, and to assume the Lloyd coat of arms. He joined the Pontifical Zouaves to protect the temporal power of the Pope, and in
LLOYD, JOHN (1833 - 1915), political reformer and antiquary Descended from the Lloyd of Dinas (Brecon) family, whose original seat was at another Dinas, in the parish of Llanwrtyd. A member of this family, JOHN LLOYD (1748 - 1818), entered the service of the East India Company, fought against Tipu Sahib, and made a large fortune, out of which he bought the Abercynrig estate outside Brecon. His eldest son, JOHN LLOYD (born at Brecon 3 June 1797, died 15
LLOYD, JOHN (1733 - 1793), cleric and antiquary Christened 26 March 1733 at Llanarmon-yn-Iâl, Denbighshire, son of John Lloyd (died 1756) of Bodidris and his wife Elizabeth (Jones) of Gerddi Duon, Mold. Lloyd was, however, not of the old Lloyds of Bodidris; his grandfather was Richard Lloyd of Cwmbychan in Ardudwy (on Evan Lloyd of that family, see Pennant, Tours of Wales, 1883 edn., ii, 268). According to Yorke (Royal Tribes of Wales, 1887
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 was buried at Llangernyw. John Lloyd had died unmarried, but left four sisters, of whom the two eldest were unmarried, the fourth had married into the (cognate) family of Conway of Soughton, and the third, Dorothea, had married Thomas Clough, rector of Denbigh (see the article on the Clough s). Dorothea's son Thomas Hugh Clough, sold Hafodunos, but Wigfair came into the possession of John Lloyd's
LLOYD, JOHN AMBROSE (1815 - 1874), musician Born 14 June 1815, at Mold, Flintshire, the son of Enoch and Catherine Lloyd. The father, who was a cabinet maker, also preached with the Baptists and was, in 1830, ordained minister of Hill Cliffe Chapel, Warrington. When the family moved to Hill Cliffe, John Ambrose Lloyd moved to Liverpool where his brother Isaac was a schoolmaster. It was at Liverpool, in 1831, that he composed his first hymn
LLOYD, JOHN MEIRION (1913 - 1998), missionary and author J. Meirion Lloyd was born on 4 May 1913 in Corris, Merionethshire, the eldest of six children of David Richard Lloyd, a quarryman, and his wife Ruth (née Ellis). He attended primary school in Corris, but his father decided to move to London and set up a business selling slate in Bow, with an office in Corris. The family became faithful members of the Mile End Welsh Chapel, and it was there that

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