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John Lloyd (scholar)

John Lloyd (scholar)

British naturalist and scholar

John Lloyd FRS (25 January 1750 – 24 April 1815) was a British naturalist.[1]

He was the eldest son of Howel Lloyd of Hafodunos and Wigfair, was probably educated at Oxford University and then studied law at the Middle Temple, where he was called to the bar in 1781.[2]

A man with a wide interest in the natural sciences including seismology and astronomy, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1774.[3]

He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Flintshire from 1797 to 1799.[2]

He died unmarried in 1815.

Selected works

References

  1. [1]
    Geike, Archibald (1917). Annals of the Royal Society Club. London: Macmillan. p. 208.
  2. [2]
    "LLOYD, John (1750-1815), of Hafodunos and Wigfair, Denb. and Tyddyn, Flint". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 18 May 2016.
  3. [3]
    "Fellows details". Royal Society. Retrieved 18 May 2016.[permanent dead link]
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