LLWYD, ANGHARAD (1780-1866), antiquary;
b. 15 April 1780 at Caerwys, Flints., and d. at Ty'n y Rhyl, Rhyl, 16 Oct. 1866. Her father was John Lloyd (1733-1793), (q.v.), rector of Caerwys. Angharad was a member of the London Cymmrodorion Society and the recipient of several gold and silver medals awarded at eisteddfodau for prize winning essays. In the Welshpool eisteddfod of 1824 she obtained the second prize for an essay entitled ‘Catalogue of Welsh Manuscripts, etc. in North Wales,’ two of her other essays being ‘Genealogy and Antiquities of Wales’ and ‘The Castles of Flintshire.’ She edited and published a new edition of Sir John Wynn's The History of the Gwydir Family, 1827. Her chief work, the History of the Island of Mona, 1832, gained the premier essay prize at the Beaumaris eisteddfod of 1833. Her voluminous MS. notes on history and antiquities, which are of considerable interest, are in the National Library of Wales.
Bibliography:
- Not. W.;
- Blackwell;
- T. Pennant, Tours, I, vi-vii;
- Arch. Camb., 1867, 69;
- Trans. Cymm., 1828, 36-58;
- N.L.W. MSS. 1551-1616.
Author:
Rev. Canon Evan Gilbert Wright, M.A., B.D., (1903-1993/4), Bangor
