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LLOYD, WILLIAM (1717 - 1777), cleric and translator Pryce, he got the mastership of Beaumaris school in July 1774 (1773 according to John Williams's history of that school), and was licensed to Llandegfan and Llansadwrn 17 July 1775, a day after his priesting. He resigned the school in 1776 (John Williams, 26); nothing is known of him after that.
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, WILLIAM (1627 - 1717), bishop of St Asaph he was promoted from one high office to another, became a prebendary of S. Paul's, chaplain to the princess Mary, and preached the funeral sermon, alive with anti-Popery, of Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey (1678). He was Protestant of Protestants and an uncompromising Anglican, as was witnessed when he became archdeacon of Merioneth in 1668, dean of Bangor in 1672, and especially when he was appointed
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.
LLUELYN, MARTIN (1616 - 1682), poet and physician appointed principal of S. Mary Hall, Oxford. While at Christ Church he was prominent in the production of plays at Oxford, and actually wrote a play for production on the occasion of the king's visit to the university in 1661. But all his published works consist of poetry. In 1664 he left Oxford and settled at High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, where he again practised as a physician, and was made a J.P. and
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, RICHARD (Bard of Snowdon; 1752 - 1835), poet and authority on Welsh heraldry and genealogy published Gayton Wake, or Mary Dod (Chester 1804) and Poems, Tales, Odes, Sonnets, Translations from the British (Chester, 1804). In 1837 The Poetical Works of Richard Llwyd, The Bard of Snowdon, comprising Beaumaris Bay … with a Portrait and a Memoir of the Author was published. He knew Angharad Llwyd, which probably accounts for the fact that some of his MSS. are in her collection (see Kinmel Park
LLWYD, HUMPHREY (c. 1527 - 1568), antiquary and map-maker was in the service of Lord Stafford, to whom one of the texts is dedicated. Most subsequent biographers have followed Wood. After completing his studies, in 1553 he entered the service of Henry Fitzalan, twelfth Earl of Arundel, and Chancellor of the University at Oxford. With the accession of Mary I in 1553 Arundel was at the height of his power and entering the household of one of the leading
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

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