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LLOYD, ROBERT (1716 - 1792) Plas Ashpool,, farmer and Methodist exhorter . William Richard, the exhorter sent to North Wales, is reported to have said at the Association held at Builth, 1 February 1748/9: 'There is a door open to preach the word in flintshire, great many comes to hear and behave very quiet'. Robert Llwyd was probably one of the crowd. There was one class of society in the county which vehemently opposed the new religion, and the young tenant of Tarth-y-dŵr was
LLOYD, SIMON (1756 - 1836), Methodist cleric (Lloyd) was succeeded as ' matron ' at Trevecka by her sister HANNAH BOWEN (1729 - 1805), who remained there till Mrs. Harris's death, and afterwards (1771) became ' matron ' of lady Huntingdon's college at Trevecka. Later, she married a William Powell of Wrexham, and died at Pwllheli. Simon and Sarah Lloyd had six children. The fourth of these was LYDIA LLOYD, who married Thomas Foulkes. The eldest
LLOYD, THOMAS (Crych Elen; 1841 - 1909), musician Born at Liverpool, of an English father and a Welsh mother. He was brought up at Dolwyddelan, of which his mother was a native, went to work in a slate quarry, but his whole thought was given to music. He was admitted as 'bard' and 'musician' at the pseudo-gorsedd, known as 'Arwest Llyn Geirionydd' (see Roberts, William John), held near Trefriw, and won some prizes at eisteddfodau. He emigrated
LLOYD, WILLIAM (1786 - 1852), musician
LLOYD, Sir WILLIAM (1782 - 1857), soldier and one of the first Europeans to reach the peak of any Himalayan snow-capped mountain
LLOYD, WILLIAM (1901 - 1967), tutor and setter of words to cerdd dant and composer of harp airs Born 14 February 1901 in Llansannan, Denbighshire, son of Richard Lloyd and Margaret his wife. The family moved to Glan Conwy when he was very young, and he was brought up there. He came to be known as William Lloyd, Cyffordd Llandudno, since he spent most of his life at Llandudno Junction working as a fireman on the railway and later as a train driver. His musical talent was fostered from an
LLOYD, WILLIAM (1637 - 1710), bishop of Llandaff was only by accident that he was prevented from joining his namesake William Lloyd of St Asaph, and raising the Seven Bishops into eight in 1688. At the Revolution he became a Nonjuror, and after Sancroft's death he was their acknowledged leader till his own demise, 1 January 1709/10. His son John married the daughter and heiress of bishop Humphrey Humphreys.
LLOYD, WILLIAM (1717 - 1777), cleric and translator His antecedents can be established by collating Morris Letters, ii, 158; J. E. Griffith, Pedigrees, 93, and church records at N.L.W. He was of the family of Merddyn Gwyn, Pentraeth, Anglesey, though Lewis Morris confused him with William Lloyd of Trallwyn in Eifionydd (see Griffith, op. cit., 212). His father was also a William Lloyd, an exciseman, who was chorister in Bangor cathedral; his
LLOYD, WILLIAM (1741 - 1808), Calvinistic Methodist exhorter
LLOYD, WILLIAM (1627 - 1717), bishop of St Asaph chancellor Jeffreys, besides being unnaturally obsequious, prove how very irritated he was by the stubbornness of some sectaries, the dilatoriness of Denbighshire sheriffs, the weak intermittent authority of the Court of Great Sessions; and (like his brother prelate and namesake William Lloyd 1637 - 1710 of Llandaff) he was worried by the Chancery writs of 'supersedeas.' That he was a vigorous prelate
LLOYD, WILLIAM (1771 - 1841), Methodist cleric
LLOYD, WILLIAM VALENTINE (1825 - 1896), co-secretary of the Powysland Club, sometime editor of the Montgomeryshire Collections Born 14 February 1825 in London, son of William Lloyd and Jane (Fitzgerald). Educated at Shrewsbury School and Trinity College, Dublin, he was ordained deacon in 1850 (priest, 1851), and licensed as curate of the mission of Lennoxville, Canada. In 1856 he was appointed to the vicarage of Marton, co. Salop. On 15 April 1858 he became a chaplain in the Royal Navy and a naval instructor, 12 July

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