LLOYD, JOHN (Einion Môn; 1792 - 1834), schoolmaster and poet

Born at Pwllgynnau, Ceidio, Anglesey. Almost everything we know of his life comes from an anonymous elegy printed in Y Gwyliedydd (1834, 375) and from Y Gwladgarwr (1835, 24). His parents died when he was a child; he went to school at Llannerch-y-medd; and at some time or other went up to London. It is sometimes said that he was a ' lawyer ' (? a lawyer's clerk); but the notice of his death in Y Gwyliedydd (1834, 288) describes him as a teacher in ' Sir John Cass's School ' - it is added that two of the duke of Wellington's sons were at that school, and that Lloyd tutored them at their home during vacations. He became a member of the London Gwyneddigion in 1827 (Leathart, Origin … of the Gwyneddigion, 110). He was also a member of the Cymreigyddion, becoming vice-president and official 'bard' of that Society; and when clerics in Wales attacked the society, Lloyd, in 1829, composed a reply to these ' brainless chatterers ' as he called them. The reports of Cymreigyddion meetings, in Seren Gomer, show that he also lectured to the society. But in 1832 we find him, in company with Griffith Davies, F.R.S., protesting vigorously against the increasingly Radical tone of the society - see the debate in Y Gwyliedydd and in Seren Gomer - though, if the elegy can be trusted, he had himself taken a prominent part in the protest against enclosures of commons in Llandwrog and Llanwnda, Caernarfonshire. He wrote verse, not only in Welsh but also in English - in Seren Gomer, 1832, 55, there is a Welsh translation (by Eryron Gwyllt Walia) of a poem by Lloyd (1831) on Spring. He died 3 August 1834, aged 42.

Author

• Emeritus Professor Robert Thomas Jenkins, (1881 - 1969)

Sources

• Josiah Thomas Jones, Geiriadur Bywgraffyddol o Enwogion Cymru (Aberdâr 1867-70), ii, 228-9
• information from Mr. Robert Owen, Croesor
• other references above

Additional Links

• Wikidata: Q20733549

Published date: 1959

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