The individual commonly known as Richard Flower was born Richard Lloyd, probably around 1566, to a notable family of

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. He also went under the names Fludd and Graye.Wainewright, John. "Ven. Richard Leigh." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 9. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1910. 3 Feb. 2014
/ref> By 1584, he is mentioned in government interrogation reports as "the chiefest reliever of priests". The law at that time declared that anyone who knowingly "shall receive, relieve, aid, or comfort a

Seminary priest Seminary priests were Catholic priests trained in English seminaries or houses of study on the European continent after the introduction of laws forbidding Catholicism in Britain. Such seminaries included that at Douay, from 1568, and others at ...

, are felons...""Venerable Richard Flower (Lloyd)", ''Lives of the English Martyrs'', vol.1, (Edwin Burton and J.H. Pollen, eds.), Longmans, Green and Co., 1914, p. 425
/ref> Lloyd was accused of providing aid to a priest named William Horner, in the parish of St. Dunstan's,

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. According to

Christopher Grene Christopher Grene (1629–1697) was a Jesuit priest. Grene was the son of George Grene, by his wife Jane Tempest, and brother of Father Martin Grene. He was born in 1629 in the diocese of Kilkenny, Ireland, whither his parents, who were natives ...

, Lloyd gave Horner, alias Forest, a quart of wine. Grene says that since at the time of Lloyd's trial, Horner was only a supposed priest, being neither under arrest, condemned, nor outlawed, the court was unsure if he even was a priest. Lloyd was executed at Tyburn on 30 August 1588, at about twenty-two years of age.

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Eighty-five martyrs of England and Wales Welsh Roman Catholics People executed at Tyburn People from Anglesey 1560s births 1588 deaths Welsh Roman Catholic martyrs Year of birth uncertain {{RC-bio-stub