William Lloyd | |
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Bishop of St Asaph, Lichfield and Coventry and Worcester | |
Enthroned | 1689 |
Personal details | |
Born | 1627 Tilehurst, Berkshire |
Died | 30 August 1717 Hartlebury Castle, Worcestershire |
(aged 90)
Buried | church of Fladbury, near Kvesham, Worcestershire |
Denomination | Church of England |
Parents | father Richard Lloyd, grandfather David Lloyd of Henblas, Anglesey. |
Children | at least one son |
Alma mater | Oriel and Jesus Colleges, Oxford |
William Lloyd (1627 – 30 August 1717) was an English divine who served successively as bishop of St Asaph, of Lichfield and Coventry and of Worcester.
Lloyd was born at Tilehurst, Berkshire, in 1627, the son of Richard Lloyd, then vicar, who was the son of David Lloyd of Henblas, Anglesey. By the age of eleven, he had understanding in Greek and Latin, and somewhat of Hebrew, before attending Oriel and Jesus Colleges, and Oxford (later becoming a Fellow of Jesus College). He graduated M.A. in 1646. In 1663 he was prebendary of Ripon, in 1667 prebendary of Salisbury, in 1668 archdeacon of Merioneth, in 1672 dean of Bangor and prebendary of St Paul's, London, in 1680 bishop of St Asaph, in 1689 lord-almoner, in 1692 bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, and in 1699 bishop of Worcester.
Lloyd was an indefatigable opponent of the Roman Catholic tendencies of James II of England, and was one of the seven bishops who, for refusing to have the Declaration of Indulgence read in his diocese, was charged with publishing a seditious libel against the king and acquitted (1688).
He engaged Gilbert Burnet to write The History of the Reformation of the Church of England and provided him with much material. He was a good scholar and a keen student of biblical apocalyptic literature and himself "prophesied" to Queen regnant Anne of Great Britain, Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Mortimer, William Whiston, and John Evelyn the diarist. Lloyd was a staunch supporter of the Glorious Revolution.
He lived to the age of ninety-one, and died at Hartlebury- castle, August 30, 1717, and was buried in the church of Fladbury, near Kvesham, in Worcestershire, of which his son was rector; where a monument is erected to his memory with a long inscription.[1]
Church of England titles | ||
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Preceded by Griffith Williams |
Dean of Bangor 1673–1680 |
Succeeded by Humphrey Humphreys |
Preceded by Isaac Barrow |
Bishop of St Asaph 1680–1692 |
Succeeded by Edward Jones |
Preceded by Thomas Wood |
Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry 1692–1699 |
Succeeded by John Hough |
Preceded by Edward Stillingfleet |
Bishop of Worcester 1699–1717 |
Succeeded by John Hough |