LLOYD
,
RICHARD
(
1771
-
1834
),
Calvinistic Methodist minister
;
b. at Nantdaenog,
Llantrisant
,
Anglesey
, sixth child of
William
Lloyd
and his wife
Jane
— she was a daughter of the famous old dissenter
William
Prichard
(
1702
-
1773
) (q.v.)
of
Clwchdernog
. His paternal grandfather was
David Lloyd ap Rhys
(
J. E.
Griffith
,
Pedigrees
, 100), and in his articles in
Goleuad Cymru
,
Richard
Lloyd
used to sign himself ‘
Rhisiart William Dafydd
.’ He joined the
Methodist society
at
Gwalchmai
in
1789
, and began to
exhort
in
1794
. He m. in
1800
, and went to
keep a draper's shop
at
Beaumaris
. Like his friend and fellow-islander
John
Elias
, he was ordained at
Bala
in
1811
. He d.
25 May 1834
, aged 63, and was buried at
Llanfaes
—
John
Elias
was buried in the next grave.
Lloyd
is described as a witty and companionable man, a bit of a
poet
, and a good
preacher
.
Bibliography:
-
Joseph Evans
,
Biographical Dictionary of Ministers and
Preachers of the Welsh Calvinistic Methodist Body…to the
close of the year 1850
, 1907
;
-
Richard Parry (Gwalchmai)
,
Enwogion Môn
, 1877
.
Author:
Emeritus Professor Robert Thomas Jenkins, C.B.E., D.Litt., Ll.D.,
F.S.A., (1881-1969), Bangor
