Author: Lloyd, Evan
Biography:
LLOYD, Evan (1734-76: DWB)
The second son of John and Bridget (Bevan) Lloyd of Llanycil near Bala, Merionethshire, Wales, he was born on 15 Apr. 1734 and educated at Ruthin School, Denbighshire, and Jesus College, Oxford (matric. 1750-1, BA 1754, MA 1757). Ordained deacon and priest in 1758, he served as curate at St. Mary’s, Rotherhithe, Surrey, until 1763 when he became the absentee vicar of Llanfair, Denbighshire. He moved among the wits of London and was a friend of Wilkes and Garrick (qq.v.) but most of his satires antedate 1770: The Curate (1766), The Methodist (1766), The Powers of the Pen (1766), Conversation (1767). The Methodist cost him £50 and two weeks imprisonment for libel. He died, unmarried, at his home at Vron, near Bala, on 26 Jan. 1776, remembered as “the author of several ingenious poetical pieces” (Bath Chronicle). (DWB; findmypast.com 23 Jan. 2024; Alumni Oxonienses; GM 46 [Feb. 1776], 94; Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette 27 Feb. 1776) HJ