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:
-
Notable Welshmen (1700–1900)
,
1908
;
-
‘Dictionary of Welsh Biography.’ 27
vols., N.L.W. MSS. 9251–77
;
-
T. Pennant
,
A Tour (Tours) in
[North] WalesPennant, Thomas , 1773. 1778, etc. See also Rhys's
3-volume edition, 1883
, I, vi-vii;
-
Archaeologia Cambrensis
,
1867
, 69;
-
The Transactions of the Honourable Society
of Cymmrodorion
,
1828, 36-58
;
-
National Library of Wales
Manuscripts
1551-1616.
Author:
Rev. Canon Evan Gilbert Wright, M.A., B.D., (1903-1993/4), Bangor
