LLOYD
,
WILLIAM
(
1637
-
1710
),
bishop of Llandaff
(
1675-1679
);
son of
Edward
Lloyd
,
rector
of
Llangower
in
Merioneth
, who was ejected from his living by the
Puritan authorities
, though the documentary evidence for the action is difficult to obtain. Educated at
S. John's College
,
Cambridge
, he was
M.A.
in
1662
and
D.D.
in
1670
. In
1675
he was made
bishop
of
Llandaff
, the last
Welshman
to hold the see for 200 years. He was an exact and aggressive prelate; he put the
Clarendon
code in full operation against sectaries (frowning very much on delays caused by the issue of
Chancery
writs of ‘supersedeas’), and he took strong action against unsatisfactory clerics and officials, even pronouncing the ‘greater excommunication’ upon the principal registrar of the
consistory court of Llandaff
. He was translated to
Peterborough
in
1679
and to
Norwich
in
1685
.
It was only by accident that he was prevented from joining his namesake of
S. Asaph
(q.v.)
and raising the Seven Bishops into eight in
1688
. At the Revolution he became a
Nonjuror
, and after
Sancroft
's death he was their acknowledged leader till his own demise,
1 Jan. 1709/10
. His son
John
m. the daughter and heiress of
bishop
Humphrey
Humphreys
(q.v.)
.
Bibliography:
-
Oxford Dictionary of National
Biography
;
-
J. E. Griffith
,
Pedigrees of Anglesey and Carnarvonshire
Families
, 1914
, 221, 235, 236;
-
Bradney
,
Acts of the Bishops of Llandaff
, Books
i–iv. Llandaff Records, vol. ii–iv, 1908–12
, ii, 105-13;
-
Tanner Manuscript.
xxxix, 47.
Author:
Thomas Richards, D.Litt., (1878-1962), Bangor
