A Biographical Sketch of some of the Most Eminent Individuals which the Principality of Wales has produced since the ReformationWilliams, Robert
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A Biographical Sketch of some of the Most Eminent Individuals which the Principality of Wales has produced since the Reformation
Williams, Robert
Wales -- Biography
_David Lloyd_, M.A., was born at Trawsvynydd, Merionethshire, in 1635,
and educated at Ruthin School. He removed thence to Oriel College,
Oxford, where he graduated, and obtained a college living. He
subsequently retired to Wales, where he was appointed chaplain to Bishop
Barrow, who, besides other preferment, gave him a canonry in the diocese
of St. Asaph. He was afterwards vicar of Northop, where he resided for
several years; he published several works, of which the principal are
“Worthies of the World,” 1665, octavo; “Memories of Statesmen and
Favourites of England,” octavo. He was zealous and industrious in the
discharge of his clerical duties, and esteemed by all for his charitable
disposition. On finding his health decaying, he retired to the place of
his nativity, where he died in 1691.
_Henry Lloyd_ was the son of a clergyman in Wales, where he was born in
1729. His early education he received from his father, who instructed
him in the classics and mathematics. Being intended for the army, he
went abroad, and was at the battle of Fontenoy; he afterwards travelled
in Germany, and resided in Austria for some years, where he was appointed
aid-de-camp to Marshal Lascy, and received higher promotion. In 1760 he
commanded a large detachment of cavalry and infantry, which was destined
to observe the motions of the Prussians. He executed this service with
great success; but soon after, for some reason, he threw up his
commission in disgust. He was next employed by the King of Prussia, and
served in two campaigns until the peace. On the breaking out of the war
between the Turks and Russians, he offered his services to Catherine the
Second, who made him a major-general, and he greatly distinguished
himself at the seige of Silistria in 1774, and subsequently he had the
command of 30,000 men in the war with Sweden. After his return to
England, he published several works on military tactics, which are highly
thought of, and placed him in a high rank as a military writer. He died
at Huy, in the Netherlands, in 1783.
_Hugh Lloyd_, D.D., was a native of South Wales, where he was born in the
year 1589, and having been brought up for the church, and having received
an University education, he became rector of Llangatoc, in Breconshire,
and archdeacon of St. David’s. In 1660 he was advanced to the bishopric
of Llandav, where he continued until his death, which took place in 1667,
and he was buried in his cathedral.
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