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 | Ancestor of AW
  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.