LLOYD
,
DAVID
(
1597
-
1663
),
dean of S. Asaph
,
son of
David
Lloyd
, b. in
1597
at
Berth-lwyd
,
Llanidloes, Mont.
He matriculated from
Hart Hall
,
Oxford
, in
1612
, and graduated
B.A.
in
1615
, being incorporated at
Cambridge
the following year. He became
Fellow
of
All Souls
1618
,
B.C.L.
1622
, and
D.C.L.
1628
. He was appointed
chaplain
to the
6th earl of Derby
in
1639
. After a period as
rector
of
Trefdraeth
,
Anglesey
, he was, in
July 1642
, instituted to the living of
Llangynhafal
and in Dec. of the same year, to the
vicarage
of
Llanfair Dyffryn Clwyd
. The same year, also, he was made
warden
of
Ruthin
. He was deprived of his benefices by the
Long Parliament
, but was reinstated at the
Restoration
, and promoted to the
deanery
of
S. Asaph
. In
1662
he was presented to one of the comportions of
Llansannan
. He d.
7 Sept. 1663
. The epitaph which he had himself composed, but which was not used, his resting-place at
Ruthin
being left without a monument, is printed by
Wood
(
Athen. Oxon.
, iii, 653). In it he confesses to an inordinate fondness for the pleasures of the table. He was an
ardent Royalist
, and in his petition for reinstatement (
1660
) at the
Restoration
he states that he had ‘often entertained princes
Rupert
and
Maurice
, and once the late
King
himself.’
Lloyd
is chiefly known as the
author
of
The Legend of Captain Jones
,
1631
, a good-natured burlesque on the exploits of an Elizabethan
seaman
. The braggart
captain
is to be regarded as a type rather than as a real person. The
Legend
immediately became popular and went through several editions.
Bibliography:
-
Oxford Dictionary of National
Biography
,
National Library of Wales Manuscript
9265, and authorities cited in each;
-
Calendar of State Papers, Domestic
Series
, Record Publication
,
1660-1
.
Author:
John James Jones, M.A., (1892-1957), Aberystwyth
