| Blessed Richard Flowers (Lloyd) | |
| Birth Date: | c.1566 |
| Death Date: | 30 August 1588 |
| Feast Day: | 30 August |
| Venerated In: | Roman Catholic Church |
| Birth Place: | Anglesey, Wales |
| Death Place: | Tyburn, London, England |
| Beatified Date: | 15 December 1929 |
| Beatified By: | Pope Pius XI |
The individual commonly known as Richard Flower was born Richard Lloyd, probably around 1566, 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]