Humphrey Lloyd

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Humphrey Lloyd (also spelled Llwyd) (1527 – 1568) was a Welsh cartographer and a leading member of the Renaissance period in Wales along with other such men as Thomas Salusbury and William Morgan.

Lloyd was born in Denbigh, the county seat of the then county of Denbighshire at Foxhall, his family's estate. As a young man, he was educated at Oxford and fared so well in the sciences and engineering that he was given a position as a physician to the Earl of Arundel during the Earl's tenure as Chancellor of the university.

In 1563, Lloyd returned to Denbigh and lived at Denbigh Castle at the permission of Sir John Salusbury who was then the Lord of the Manor of Denbigh. He there studied cartography and was given a stipend from the Crown to create the first printed map of Wales at around the same time that he returned to the region.

Lloyd died in 1568 and is buried in Whitchurch, a small chapel on the outskirts of Denbigh. A Victorian-era monument exists to him in St. Marcella's Church, Denbigh.