Anne married secondly Theophilus Eaton, merchant, diplomat, and, later, one of the founders and the first governor of the New Haven Colony. The Eatons emigrated to New England in 1637, aboard the Hector of London, along with the Yale family.[7][8]
He was consecrated as Bishop of Sodor and Man in 1600.[9][10] Although this bishopric was not a lucrative one, and he even commented on the "smallness of the Bishopricke".[2] Despite this, the appointment was a significant promotion and stepping stone to a more prominent position in England.
Like most of his predecessors, Lloyd rarely visited the Isle of Man and there is only one recorded visit in 1603 where he attended a Consistory Court where several offenders against the spiritual law were punished.[11]
In 1605 he exchanged the seat of Sodor and Man for that of Chester, the Chester Cathedral and was consecrated in January. A former lecturer at Chester Cathedral, he was tolerant of Puritan views in his diocese.[12]
In local politics, he opposed Robert Whitby, a nominee of Lord Ellesmere, the Lord Chancellor, as clerk of the Pentice, who was building a family factional position in the city.[13] 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.[14]
Chester is a cathedral city and the county town of Cheshire, England, on the River Dee, close to the England-Wales border. With a built up area population of 92,760 in 2021, it is the most populous settlement of Cheshire West and Chester. It is also the historic county town of Cheshire and the second-largest settlement in Cheshire after Warrington.
Gresford is a village and community in Wrexham County Borough, Wales.
Marford is a village in Wrexham County Borough, Wales, near the Wales-England border.
George Lloyd may refer to:
Sir Foster Cunliffe, 3rd Baronet (1755–1834) was the founder of the Royal Society of British Bowmen.
Ial or Yale was a commote of medieval Wales within the cantref of Maelor in the Kingdom of Powys. When the Kingdom was divided in 1160, Maelor became part of the Princely realm of Powys Fadog, and belonged to the Royal House of Mathrafal. Yale eventually merged with another commote and became the Lordship of Bromfield and Yale, later a royal lordship under the Tudors and Stuarts.
The first High Sheriff of Denbighshire was John Salusbury, snr, appointed in 1540. The shrievalty of Denbighshire, together with that of Flintshire, continued until 1974 when it was abolished after the county and shrievalty of Clwyd was created.
Hugh Bellot was an English prelate during the Tudor period, who served as bishop of Bangor and then bishop of Chester.
Bishop Lloyd's House is at 41 Watergate Street, and 51/53 Watergate Row, Chester, Cheshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building. The architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner considered it to be "perhaps the best" house in Chester.
Bishopscourt consists of a 17th-century mansion house, the St Nicholas in the Church of England Diocese of Sodor and Man, and the former estate of Ballachurry or Bishopscourt Manse.
Thomas Vowler Short was an English academic and clergyman, successively Bishop of Sodor and Man and Bishop of St Asaph.
The Bishop of Chester is the Ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Chester in the Province of York.
Henry Bridgeman was an Anglican clergyman who served in the Church of England as the Bishop of Sodor and Man from 1671 to 1682.
Henry Man was an English clergyman who served as the Bishop of Sodor and Man in the 16th century.
Edward Almer or Aylmer, of Denbigh and Gresford, Denbighshire, was a Welsh politician.
William Almer of Pant Iocyn, Denbighshire, was a Welsh politician.
The Lordship of Bromfield and Yale was formed in 1282 by the merger of the medieval commotes of Marford, Wrexham and Yale. It was part of the Welsh Marches and was within the cantref of Maelor in the former Kingdom of Powys.
David Yale was the Chancellor of Chester, England and a correspondent of Elizabeth Tudor's chief minister, Lord William Cecil of Burghley House. He was also the Vicar General of his in-law, Bishop George Lloyd of Chester. His son, merchant Thomas Yale, became the patriarch of the Yale family of America, and the grandfather of governor Elihu Yale, benefactor of Yale University.
Pant-yr-Ochain is a historic country house and public house, near Gresford, Wrexham, in North Wales.
Reverend John Yale was a British cleric and Rector of Lawford in Essex. He was made Steward and Chaplain of Horningsea in the city of Cambridge, and later, became Deacon and Fellow of the University of Cambridge. Notably, he was the heir to the Plas-yn-Yale estate in Wales of the Yale family, which was succeeded by his sister Sarah Yale, last of the direct male line. After her death, her cousin Lt. Col. William Parry Yale succeeded to the estate.
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