LLOYD
(or
FLUDD
),
GEORGE
(
1560
-
1615
),
bishop of Chester
,
was the fifth son of
Meredydd (Lloyd) ap John ap Meredydd Llwyd
of
Beaumaris
, he was b. at
Bryn Euryn
,
Llandrillo yn Rhos
, which his mother,
Jonet
Conwy
, inherited through her father,
Hugh Conwy
Fychan
, a descendant of
Marchudd
, founder of one of the fifteen tribes of
North Wales
. He was a scholar of
King's School
,
Chester
, from
1575-9
, entering
Jesus College
,
Cambridge
, in
1579
, and graduating
B.A.
in
1583
,
M.A.
1586
,
B.D.
1593
,
D.D.
1598
. He became a
Fellow
of
Magdalene
,
c.
1586
,
sinecure rector
of
Llanrwst
,
1597
, of
Heswall
,
1597-1613
, and of
Bangor Iscoed
,
1612-5
. In
1600
he was consecrated
bishop
of
Sodor
and
Man
, exchanging the see in
Dec. 1604
for that of
Chester
, where he reversed the anti-Puritan policy of his
Welsh
predecessor
Richard
Vaughan
(q.v.)
, formerly
bishop of Bangor
. He d.
1 Aug. 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
s
, q.v.
), which remained the home of his family till
1634
.
Bibliography:
-
Oxford Dictionary of National
Biography
, and sources therein cited;
-
Venn
,
Alumni Cantabrigienses
I, i, 94;
-
J. E. Griffith
,
Pedigrees of Anglesey and Carnarvonshire
Families
, 1914
, 290;
-
Thomas
,
A History of the Diocese of St.
Asaph
(
1911
ed.), i, 435, ii, 343;
-
A. N. Palmer
,
History of the thirteen country townships of
the old parish of Wrexham, and of the townships of Burras
Riffri, Erlas, & Erddig Being the fifth and last part
of "A history of the town and parish of Wrexham"
,
1903
,
1903, 175-6
;
-
Transactions of the Chester Architectural,
Archaeological, and Historic Society
, 1857–1909
, n.s., vi, 245-8.
Author:
Emeritus Professor Arthur Herbert Dodd, M.A., (1891-1975), Bangor
