John Lloyd, b. in 1749, was admitted to the Middle Temple 12 Nov. 1770, called to the bar 25 May 1781, took silk, became Bencher of his Inn 25 Jan. 1811, and Reader 24 April 1815. He was a member of the first Cymmrodorion Society (list of 1778), and had previously been elected F.R.S.; he was also F.S.A. and F.L.S., and in 1793 was created D.C.L. of Oxford. In 1796 he contested Flintshire against Sir Thomas Mostyn, unsuccessfully, but he unseated Mostyn on petition in 1797, and held the seat till Sept. 1799, when he resigned it. He d. at Wigfair 24 April 1815, and was buried at Llangernyw.

John Lloyd had d. unmarried, but left four sisters, of whom the two eldest were unmarried, the fourth had m. into the (cognate) family of Conway of Soughton, and the third, Dorothea, had m. Thomas Clough, rector of Denbigh (see the article on the Cloughs). Dorothea's son Thomas Hugh Clough, sold Hafodunos, but Wigfair came into the possession of John Lloyd's two unmarried sisters, who bequeathed it to their niece Dorothea, daughter of the Rev. Thomas Clough of Denbigh; she m. Richard Howard, vicar of Llanrhaeadr-yng-Nghinmeirch, and it was from the Howard family that the N.L.W. purchased the Wigfair papers described in the second portion of this article.

John Lloyd, b. in 1749, was admitted to the Middle Temple 12 Nov. 1770, called to the bar 25 May 1781, took silk, became Bencher of his Inn 25 Jan. 1811, and Reader 24 April 1815. He was a member of the first Cymmrodorion Society (list of 1778), and had previously been elected F.R.S.; he was also F.S.A. and F.L.S., and in 1793 was created D.C.L. of Oxford. In 1796 he contested Flintshire against Sir Thomas Mostyn, unsuccessfully, but he unseated Mostyn on petition in 1797, and held the seat till Sept. 1799, when he resigned it. He d. at Wigfair 24 April 1815, and was buried at Llangernyw.

John Lloyd had d. unmarried, but left four sisters, of whom the two eldest were unmarried, the fourth had m. into the (cognate) family of Conway of Soughton, and the third, Dorothea, had m. Thomas Clough, rector of Denbigh (see the article on the Cloughs). Dorothea's son Thomas Hugh Clough, sold Hafodunos, but Wigfair came into the possession of John Lloyd's two unmarried sisters, who bequeathed it to their niece Dorothea, daughter of the Rev. Thomas Clough of Denbigh; she m. Richard Howard, vicar of Llanrhaeadr-yng-Nghinmeirch, and it was from the Howard family that the N.L.W. purchased the Wigfair papers described in the second portion of this article.