LLWYD, ANGHARAD (1780 - 1866), antiquary
Date of birth: 1780
Date of death: 1866
Parent: Martha Lloyd (née Williams)
Parent: John Lloyd
Gender: Female
Occupation: antiquary
Area of activity: Eisteddfod; History and Culture; Scholarship and Languages
Author: Evan Gilbert Wright
Born 15 April 1780 at Caerwys, Flintshire, and died at Ty'n y Rhyl, Rhyl, 16 October 1866. Her father was John Lloyd (1733 - 1793), 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 1832.
Her voluminous MS. notes on history and antiquities, which are of considerable interest, are in the National Library of Wales.
Author
- Reverend Canon Evan Gilbert Wright, (1903)
- Notable Welshmen (1700–1900) (1908)
- H. Blackwell, NLW MSS 9251-9277A: A Dictionary of Welsh Biography
- Thomas Pennant, A Tour (Tours) in [North] Wales, I, vi-vii
- Archaeologia Cambrensis, 1867, 69
- The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, 1828, 36-58
- NLW MS 781A, NLW MS 1551-1616
- Mary Ellis, Flintshire Historical Society publications, Vols 26 and 27
- Caerwys parish register
Sources
- NLW Archives: NLW MS 4857D: Angharad Llwyd papers
- NLW Archives: NLW MS 23524B: Commonplace book
- Wikipedia Article: Angharad Llwyd
Further Reading
- NLW: Angharad Llwyd
Images
Published date: 1959
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