Aubrey (Natural History and Antiquities of Surrey, v. 140) says he had seen several manuscripts written by Lloyd, particularly: 1. ‘Parenti Parentatio, or Funeral Obsequies, by Nicholas Lloyd, in Memory of his ever honoured Father, Mr. Geo. Lloyd, together with some brief Observations upon the chief Passages of his Life and Death, Anno Dom. 1658,’ 12mo. 2. ‘Διονυσιου Οικουμενης Περιηγησις, Dionysii Situs Orbis Descriptio, una cum Commentatione Philologica, Geographica, Historica, Poetica, et Mythologica, ex 440 Auctoribus vetustis ac recentibus illustrata,’ 1656, 4to, pp. 389. 3. Latin translation of ‘Orphei Argonautica.’ 4. ‘Observations on several Parts of the Holy Scriptures.’ In the Rawlinson collection of manuscripts in the Bodleian Library is a folio volume (Misc. 32) containing several of his papers and memoranda, including autobiographical notes, printed in Wood's ‘Athenæ Oxonienses,’ ed. Bliss, iii. 1259–60. Lloyd also wrote, 5. ‘Bίος μὴ Παλίμβιος, or Life Irrecoverable,’ manuscript, a funeral discourse on the death of his brother Edward, dated Wadham College, 1656.
His commonplace book is in the possession of Mr. H. Buxton Forman.
[Gardiner's Register of Wadham College, i. 482; Universal Historical Bibliotheque, 1687, p. 149; Watt's Bibl. Brit.; Williams's Eminent Welshmen, p. 285; Wood's Athenæ Oxon. (Bliss), iii. 1258.]
LLOYD, RICHARD (1595–1659), royalist divine, born in 1595, was fifth son of David Lloyd of Henblas in Llangristiolus, Isle of Anglesey, by Catherine, daughter of Richard Owen Tudor of Penmynydd in the same isle. His parents, who were both remarkable for their learning and skill in poetry, had him carefully educated at home. On 3 April 1612 he matriculated at Oxford from Oriel College. He was college moderator, became rector of Sonning and vicar of Tilehurst, Berkshire, and commenced B.D. on 7 May 1628; but on the outbreak of the civil war he was deprived of his preferments and imprisoned. He ultimately retired to Oxford, where he taught a private school for several years. He died in June 1659, and was buried in the church of St. Peter-le-Bailey, Oxford. He was twice married and left by his first wife, Joan Wickins, a son William (1627–1717) [q. v.], afterwards bishop of Worcester.
Lloyd compiled for the use of his pupils: 1. ‘Artis Poeticæ, Musarum candidatis addiscendæ, formula recens et dilucida,’ 8vo, London, 1653. 2. ‘The Schoole-Masters Auxiliaries to remove the Barbarians Siege from Athens, advanced under two guides,’ 2 pts. 8vo, London, 1654, 53 (another edition, 12mo, 1659), English and Latin grammars.
[Wood's Athenæ Oxon. (Bliss), iii. 472–3, and Fasti, i. 441; Foster's Alumni Oxon. 1500–1714.]
LLOYD, Sir RICHARD (1606–1676), royalist, born in 1606, appears to have been the eldest son of Primus Lloyd of Marrington, Shropshire. According to Williams, his family originally owned extensive estates in Carnarvonshire, Merionethshire, and Denbighshire (Eminent Welshmen, ed. 1852, p. 286). He was himself seated at Ecclusham, near Wrexham, Denbighshire, and Dulasau, Carnarvonshire. He entered the Inner Temple in 1631 (Cooke, Inner Temple Students, 1547–1660, p. 266). In March 1635–6 he was entrusted by the king with a foreign mission (Cal. State Papers, Dom. 1635–6, p. 293), and was rewarded in the following November with a grant of the reversion of the office of prothonotary and clerk of the crown in Denbighshire and Montgomeryshire (ib. 1636–7, p. 215). This post he surrendered in July 1661 (ib. 1661–2, p. 33). He attended Charles I into the north in 1639, and had afterwards to complain to the privy council of the bad quality of the arms supplied to him (ib. 1639–40, p. 395). By June 1642 he was attorney-general for North Wales, and actively engaged in raising troops for the king (ib. 1641–3, p. 336). On 27 Sept. Charles was entertained by Lloyd at Wrexham. Upon repeating his visit on 7 Oct. the king knighted him (Metcalfe, Book of Knights, p. 199). In 1645 Lloyd was made governor of Holt Castle, Denbighshire. An intercepted letter from him to Colonel Trevour concerning the peace concluded between the king and the Irish, and the assistance expected from them, was read in the House of Commons on 9 Sept., and roused much indignation (Commons' Journals, iv. 268). Owing to the smallness of his garrison he was obliged in December 1646 to treat with the parliament for the capitulation of the castle (ib. v. 24). He surrendered to Colonel Thomas Mytton on 13 Jan. 1646–7, having first stipulated that his wife and children should be allowed 300l. a year out of his estates, and that he himself should have liberty to go abroad with a like sum derived from his personal effects (Cal. State Papers, Dom. 1645–7, pp. 338, 515). His conduct, however, in regard to the Irish rebels had so incensed the parliament that his name was included in the list of persons who, in the negotiations with the king of 1647, were to be excepted from pardon. In July 1660 he was appointed justice of Glamorganshire,
