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  • Reference
      GB 133 DDPr 1/54
  • Former Reference
      GB 135 DDPr 1/54
      GB 133 Leather Vol.VI - Letters Chiefly Addressed to the Rev. C Wesley, p.54
  • Dates of Creation
      2 Sep 1769
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  • The lawyer Samuel Lloyd was a friend of the Wesleys, especially Charles, who entrusted him with the management of his financial affairs. It is possible that he was a relative of the Gwynne family. He may also be identified with Samuel Lloyd, son of Revd. Thomas Lloyd of Shrewsbury, who graduated from Jesus College, Oxford, in 1735, and was the only person of that name to attend either Oxford or Cambridge during the first half of the eighteenth century. Source: Dr Frank Baker, The Works of John Wesley (1982), Volume 26, p.463 and Joseph Foster, Alumni Oxonienses (1891).

From Samuel Lloyd re the nature of religious friendship.

Note

Note

  • The lawyer Samuel Lloyd was a friend of the Wesleys, especially Charles, who entrusted him with the management of his financial affairs. It is possible that he was a relative of the Gwynne family. He may also be identified with Samuel Lloyd, son of Revd. Thomas Lloyd of Shrewsbury, who graduated from Jesus College, Oxford, in 1735, and was the only person of that name to attend either Oxford or Cambridge during the first half of the eighteenth century. Source: Dr Frank Baker, The Works of John Wesley (1982), Volume 26, p.463 and Joseph Foster, Alumni Oxonienses (1891).