George Lloyd

George Lloyd (1560– 1 August 1615) was born in Wales, and became Bishop of Sodor and Man, then Bishop of Chester. He is remembered for Bishop Lloyd's House in Chester, which he had built in the years before his death, and which is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building.

Family and education Lloyd was born in 1560 at Bryn Euryn, Llandrillo yn Rhos in Wales. His father was Meredith Lloyd of Llanelian-yn-Rhos, Denbighshire, and his mother Jonet Conwy.

He was educated at the King's School, Chester from 1575-1579. He then entered Jesus College, Cambridge. There he received his B.A. in 1583, M.A. in 1586, B.D. in 1593, and finally his Doctor of Divinity in 1598.

Ministry Lloyd became a Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge around 1586. He was ordained as a curate for the church of St Peter Mancroft in Norwich by Bishop Edmund Scrambler of Norwich in January 1591. Although this bishopric was not a lucrative one, and he even commented on the "smallness of the Bishopricke".

Although Lloyd did have a bishop's palace on the Isle of Man, some twenty miles north of the cathedral at Peel, he significantly refurbished a fashionable townhouse at Watergate Street in Chester, part of Chester Rows.

During his tenure as Bishop of Chester, he reversed the anti-Puritan policies of his predecessor Richard Vaughan, who was Bishop of London. His residence in Chester was at Bishop Lloyd's House.

He died 1 August 1615, and was buried in Chester cathedral, where he is commemorated by a mural inscription. In the year of his death he bought Pant Iocyn, near Wrexham, formerly the residence of the Almer family, which remained the home of his family till 1634.

The estate was from the Almers who married with the son of Sir William Gerard, a cousin of Sir Gilbert Gerard.