William Lloyd (1637 – 1 January 1710) was a Welsh-born Anglican bishop. He was deprived of his see in 1691 for being a non-juror.

Life

Lloyd was born at Bala, Merionethshire, in 1637, son of Edward Lloyd, a clerk there. After two years at

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, he was admitted on 23 February 1655 as a

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. He graduated BA and MA and was in 1670 created DD by royal letters. For some time after taking his master's degree, he was chaplain to the English Merchants' Factory in Portugal and Vicar of

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. He was

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from 1668 to 1672, then chaplain to

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and prebendary of Caddington Minor in

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from 4 May 1672 to March 1676. On 6 April 1675 he was elected

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, in succession to Francis Davies. He was transferred on 10 April 1679 to Peterborough and on 11 June 1685 to Norwich. He sought to sign the petition for which the

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were tried in 1688, but his letter was delayed; he helped them prepare their defence, which led to a threat that he should yet "keep company with them".

Deprived

At the

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Lloyd attended a meeting of the Convention Parliament, but did not take the oaths by the date fixed. He then declined to take them, but remained in possession of his posts until 1 August 1690, when he was suspended from performing his ecclesiastical functions until 1 February 1691, then formally deprived. In 1692

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, the deprived archbishop, formally delegated to Lloyd as his proxy in exercising his archiepiscopal powers in spiritual matters. Lloyd signed two published letters, one ''A Vindication of the onjuringBishops'', 1690, and another appealing to all Christian people for assistance to the suffering non-juring clergy, in July 1695. When a list of non-juring clergy was taken to James II at the

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, the exiled king directed Sancroft and Lloyd each to nominate one suspended clergyman for the episcopate. Lloyd nominated

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as suffragan bishop of Ipswich and performed the consecration on 24 February 1693 at a private house, assisted by the deprived bishops of Peterborough and Ely. Lloyd retired to

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, where he continued with caution to perform his episcopal functions. He died 1 January 1710 and was buried in the belfry of Hammersmith parish church, in accordance with his wish. He had outlived all the deprived bishops except

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. His death was followed by the return of

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, Robert Nelson, Brokesby and others to the national church, Ken having expressly declared a wish for the schism to end.

Family

Lloyd left a widow, Hannah, and a son John (BA 1694 and MA 1698 of

), who died in 1706, a fortnight after he had married a daughter of Dr

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References

Sources

William Lloyd's papers at Lambeth Palace Library
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lloyd, William 1637 births 1710 deaths Archdeacons of Merioneth Bishops of Llandaff Bishops of Norwich Bishops of Peterborough British nonjuror bishops People educated at Ruthin School Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge 17th-century Church of England bishops 17th-century Welsh Anglican bishops People from Bala, Gwynedd