George Lloyd, Bishop of Chester

1560 - 1615  (55 years)

• Name	George Lloyd  [1]
  Suffix	Bishop of Chester
  Birth	1560	Bryn Euryn, Llandrollo yn Rhos, Wales   [2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Death	1 Aug 1615  [2, 4]
  Burial	Chester Cathedral, Chester, Cheshire, England   [2, 3]
  Person ID	I38483	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	20 Sep 2022

  
  

  Father	Meredith Lloyd ap John ap Meredith Llwyd,   b. of Beaumaris, Anglesey, Wales
  Mother	Jonet Conway
  Family ID	F22602	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Anne Wilkinson,   b. Abt 1570   d. Abt 1645 (Age ~ 75 years)
  Marriage	May 1594	St. George Colegate, Norwich, Norfolk, England   [5]
  Children	+ 1. Anne Lloyd,   b. Bef 1597, Norwich, Norfolk, England d. 1659, England (Age > 62 years)
  Family ID	F22600	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	20 Sep 2022

  
  

• Notes

  "He was a scholar of King's School, Chester, from 1575-9, entering Jesus College, Cambridge, in 1579, and graduating B.A. in 1583, M.A. 1586, B.D. 1593, D.D. 1598. He became a Fellow of Magdalene, c. 1586, sinecure rector of Llanrwst, 1597, of Heswall, 1597-1613, and of Bangor Iscoed, 1612-5. In 1600 he was consecrated bishop of Sodor and Man, exchanging the see in December 1604 for that of Chester, where he reversed the anti-Puritan policy of his Welsh predecessor Richard Vaughan, formerly bishop of Bangor." [Dictionary of Welsh Biography, citation details below]

  
  

• Sources

  [S142] Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families by Douglas Richardson. Salt Lake City, 2013. [S37] Robert Joseph Curfman, "The Yale Descent from Braiose and Clare through Pigott of Buckinghamshire." The American Genealogist 56:1, 56:101, 1980. [S903] The Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales, 2007 and ongoing. [S903] The Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales, 2007 and ongoing., year only. [S6668] Karen McKay, "Bishop George Lloyd: A Life." 2016.