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LLOYD, MEREDITH (fl. 1655-1677), lawyer and antiquary . Vaughan had a high opinion of Lloyd's scholarship and urged him to undertake a study of the Old Welsh laws, for which he was admirably equipped by his legal training and his knowledge of Old Welsh. Another of Lloyd's intimates was the famous copyist, John Jones of Gellilyfdy (1578? - 1658?), whom he visited at the Fleet prison. Among the Wynnstay MSS. in the National Library of Wales there is an
LLOYD, OWEN MORGAN (1910 - 1980), minister and poet train for the ministry. He contributed to the social and cultural life of the University College of North Wales, including sports, and won the chairs of the Bangor Students Eisteddfod and the Inter-collegiate Eisteddfod. Whilst a student he met Gwyneth Jones (1912-2000 from Llanrug and they married in 1938. They had three children, Gwyn, Rhys and Nest. In 1935 O. M. Lloyd was ordained minister of
LLOYD, ROBERT (Llwyd o'r Bryn; 1888 - 1961), eisteddfodwr, entertainer and farmer Born in Penybryn, Bethel, Llandderfel, Merionethshire, 29 February 1888, the youngest son of John and Winifred Lloyd. He was baptized by Michael Daniel Jones. He was educated at Sarnau school and after working for a period with his father on the farm, he married in 1913 Annie Williams, Derwgoed, Llandderfel. Thereafter he farmed Derwgoed until he retired in 1944. In this connection, he was one of
LLOYD, SIMON (1756 - 1836), Methodist cleric (see T. M. Jones, Llenyddiaeth fy Ngwlad, 76) edited the third series of Y Drysorfa. He married (1789) Bridget Price of Rhydcolomennod (Llangrannog, Cardiganshire), and they had eight children. He took considerable interest in improved methods of farming. The family estates remained in the possession of his descendants till very lately - see the list of Plas-yn-dre properties in Y Seren (Bala), 26
LLOYD, THOMAS ALWYN (1881 - 1960), architect and town planner Born 11 August 1881 in Liverpool, the son of Thomas and Elizabeth Jones Lloyd. The family came from a strong nonconformist tradition in Denbighshire, and Lloyd inherited a deep love for rural Wales and for Welsh culture. He was educated at Liverpool College and at the University of Liverpool where he studied architecture in the university's Architecture School. From 1907 to 1912, he was an
LLOYD, WILLIAM (1717 - 1777), cleric and translator mother was Elizabeth Hughes of Tre'r-dryw; he had (says William Morris) a full brother who was a ship's captain (perhaps the ' Owen Lloyd ' who was christened a year before him at Flint); he had a half-brother; he was nephew of Owen Lloyd, chancellor of Bangor; and he was cousin to William Jones of Trefollwyn (fl. 1718-79), one of the earliest Methodists of Anglesey. Though the Cymmrodorion lists give
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-JONES, DAVID MARTYN (1899 - 1981), minister and theologian Martyn Lloyd-Jones was born in Cardiff, the second of three sons born to Henry Lloyd-Jones and Magdalene or 'Maggie' Lloyd-Jones (née Evans), on 20 December 1899. The family home was in Donald Street, Cathays, and the father was a grocer by trade. Because of the father's health, the family moved from Cardiff to Llangeitho during the spring of 1906, to keep a general store, which included the sale
LLOYD-JONES, JOHN (1885 - 1956), scholar and poet Born 14 October 1885, son of John and Dorothy Lloyd-Jones, Cartrefle, Dolwyddelan,, Caernarfonshire. He was educated at Llanrwst grammar school and the University College of North Wales, Bangor. He graduated B.A. in 1906 and M.A. in 1909. He took the B.Litt. degree of Oxford University at Jesus College, and then studied under Rudolf Thurneysen at the University of Freiburg. He was appointed first
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, HARRI (bu farw 1799), Wesleyan lay preacher His early history is still obscure. He is said to have been convinced of his sin under the ministry of David Jones (nephew of Griffith Jones, Llanddowror?) at the Llanlluan chapel-of-ease; this conviction was deepened by the preaching of Howel Harris and the full light burst upon him about August 1743 - one of the few relatively certain dates in his early history. He was a Wesleyan lay preacher
LLWYD, RICHARD (Bard of Snowdon; 1752 - 1835), poet and authority on Welsh heraldry and genealogy instrumental in raising a monument to David Hughes, founder of the free school at which he had been educated; he failed in his efforts to erect a memorial to Owen Jones (Owain Myfyr). He had throughout life been interested in books, manuscripts, and records of the assistance which he gave to such writers as Sir Richard Colt Hoare, Richard Fenton, Peter Roberts, was duly acknowledged. He came to be considered

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