Lloyd Hesketh Bamford-Hesketh

Lloyd Hesketh Bamford-Hesketh (1788–1861) was the owner of the Gwrych Castle estate in the historic county of Denbighshire, Wales.

[5] Gwrych Castle was built by Lloyd as a memorial to his mother and her ancestors much to his own designs.

As a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, he took a keen interest in medieval architecture, art and archaeology.

[7] In 1825, Bamford-Hesketh married Lady Emily Esther Ann Lygon (1800–1873), the youngest daughter of the 1st Earl of Beauchamp.

Together, they were the parents of: At his death in 1861, the heir to Gwrych Castle and the estate was Lloyd's son Robert Bamford-Hesketh (1826-1894) who married Ellen Jones-Bateman in 1851.

Portrait of Bamford-Hesketh, c. 1810
Gwrych Castle, c.1840, designed by Lloyd Hesketh Bamford-Hesketh as own his home