LLOYD
,
Sir
RICHARD
(
1606
-
1676
),
royalist and judge
, of
Esclus, Denbs.
,
was the son of
Evan
Lloyd
of
Dulasau, Caerns.
(not of
Primus
Lloyd
of
Marrington
, as in
D.N.B.
). His family had been settled for centuries in the neighbourhood of
Penmachno
, claiming descent from a bastard son of
Dafydd
, brother of
prince
Llywelyn ap Gruffydd
; he was nephew to a
vicar
of
Ruabon
and first cousin to three other
North Wales
incumbents, and a
bishop of Bangor
(
Humphrey
Lloyd
,
1610
-
1688
) (q.v.)
. He entered the
Inner Temple
in
1631
, was
employed on missions abroad
in
1635-6
, and on his return was given the reversion to the office of
prothonotary
and
clerk to the Crown
in
Denbighshire
and
Montgomeryshire
. He attended
Charles
I
on the
Scottish campaign
of
1639
, and was subsequently made
attorney general
for
North Wales
, in which capacity he was very active from
Aug. 1641 to April 1642
in combating (by delaying tactics and counter-proposals) the agitation for the abolition of the council at
Ludlow
, and early in June he attended the
king
at
York
with assurances of loyalty from the six counties. He entertained
Charles
on his recruiting visits to
Wrexham
on 27 Sept. and
7 Oct. 1642
, receiving
knighthood
on the latter occasion [and he helped to co-ordinate local efforts for the defence of
Chester
during the early months of
1643
and of
Denbighshire
when invasion was threatened next summer, after which] he was made
governor
of
Holt castle
, holding out till, on
13 Jan. 1647
, he surrendered to
Thomas
Mytton
(q.v.)
on terms which permitted
Lloyd
to go abroad with £300 out of his personal estate, and his family to retain lands to the same value. His intransigence towards parliament led the latter to demand his exclusion from pardon in the negotiations of
1647
. Returning at the
Restoration
, he was made
justice of the south-eastern circuit
of the
Great Sessions
in
July 1660
, and promoted the re-establishment of the
council of Wales
by a memorandum (presented
June 1661
) repeating many of his arguments of twenty years earlier.
In the same year he was elected to parliament by both
Cardiff
and
Radnorshire
, sitting for the latter till his death on
5 May 1676
, when he was buried at
Wrexham
.
Bibliography:
-
Oxford Dictionary of National
Biography
, and sources therein cited;
-
J. E. Griffith
,
Pedigrees of Anglesey and Carnarvonshire
Families
, 1914
, 328, 330;
-
Huntingdon Lib., U.S.A.,
Egerton Manuscripts at the Huntingdon Library,
U.S.A
7539-7559;
-
N.L.W.
Crosse of Shaw Hill Manuscripts at the National
Library of Wales
1101-1111;
-
C. A. J. Skeel
,
The Council in the Marches of Wales a study
in local government during the sixteenth and seventeenth
centurie
, Cambridge, 1904
, 166;
-
R. H. Morris
,
The Siege of Chester, 1643–1646
,
1924
, 110, 122, 146, 185;
-
A. H. Dodd
,
Studies in Stuart Wales
, Cardiff,
1952
, 49, 65-8, 71, 196.
Author:
Emeritus Professor Arthur Herbert Dodd, M.A., (1891-1975), Bangor
Corrections and additions:
LLOYD
,
Sir
RICHARD
(
1606
-
1676
;
DWB
, 587).
Another member of the family (not to mention, for the time being,
David
Owen
, ‘
Dafydd y Garreg Wen
’,
DWB
, 699)
deserves some attention. A comparison of the charts in
J. E.
Griffith
(
Pedigrees
, 330, 353, 269) shows that
Sir
Richard
Lloyd
had a sister
Margaret
who m.
Richard
Anwyl
of
Parc
. Their daughter was
Barbara
, who was alive in
1707
and who m. twice, the second time to one surnamed
Parry
, sometimes identified with
Jeffrey
Parry
of
Rhydolion
, forefather of the
Parrys
of
Madryn
, which cannot be correct since the latter died while she was still married to her first husband. Her first husband, as demonstrated by
Nannau MS. 3452
in the library of
University of Wales
,
Bangor
, was
Hugh
Lloyd
(not
‘
Richard
’ as given by
Griffith
) of
Deneio
and
Nefyn
. Their third son (fifth son according to some) was
RODERICK
LLOYD
(d.
1730
) of
Hafodwryd
,
Penmachno, Caerns.
, who entered
Lincoln's Inn
in
1684
(and who spent most of his life there), and became (as had his uncle
Richard
Anwyl
)
Clerk of the Outlawries in the Court of Common Pleas
. It is often said that he was protonotary to his famous neighbour,
Sir
Robert
Price
(
DWB
, 790)
of
Giler
, but his name does not appear in the lists of
W. R.
Williams
(
The Welsh Judges
). Nevertheless, it is obvious that there was a close relationship, throughout his career, between the two. He is commemorated in
Penmachno
by the school, almshouses, and the charitable gifts (including
Welsh
books for the poor) which he donated to his parish; see his will (
Nannau MS. 3448
, at
Bangor
), and also
Lowe
,
The Heart of Northern Wales
, ii, 437-40, and
Gweithiau Gethin
, 250, 253-4. He m. in
1703
,
Anne
, widow of
Robert
Pugh
of
Pennar
or
Pennard
,
Penmachno
(a
lawyer
of
Middle Temple
), and left a daughter, another
Anne
, who m. in
1730
Edward
Williams
of
Meillionydd
. Their daughter, yet another
Anne
, by her marriage to
Robert Howell
Vaughan
(
Griffith
,
op. cit.
, 201), brought
Roderick
Lloyd
's property to the
Hengwrt-Nannau
family, which is why his papers are among the
Nannau papers
in the library at
Bangor
, papers (particularly
Nannau MSS. 3444-
60
) which complement and rectify, to some extent, the charts of
J. E.
Griffith
.
Roderick
Lloyd
d.
May 1730
, and was buried
30 May
in
Lincoln's Inn chapel
. A daughter of his wife's first marriage to
Robert
Pugh
was
Anne
Pugh
who m.
John
Wynne
(
DWB
, 1106-7)
,
Bishop of St. Asaph
; the
bishop
's name is seen with
Sir
Robert
Price
and others among the executors of the will of
Roderick
Lloyd
.
Bibliography:
-
P. H. Lawson
in
The Cheshire Sheaf, being local gleanings,
historical & antiquarian
,
Jan. and Feb. 1937
;
- and the other references given above.
Author:
Emeritus Professor Robert Thomas Jenkins, C.B.E., D.Litt., Ll.D.,
F.S.A., (1881-1969), Bangor
