Richard Lloyd (c. 1566 – 30 August 1588), better known by his alias Richard Flower, was a Catholic martyr who was beatified in 1929.
Biography
Flower was born to a notable family of Anglesey. He also went under the names Fludd and Graye.[1] 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, are felons".[2] Lloyd was accused of providing aid to a priest named William Horner, in the parish of St. Dunstan's, Farringdon Without. According to Christopher Grene, 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.[2]