Sir John Edward Lloyd (5 May 1861 – 20 June 1947) was a Welsh historian.
Early life and eduction
John Edward Lloyd was born in
Liverpool
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on 5 May 1861. He was educated in the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth (which later become the
University of Wales, Aberystwyth), which he left in 1881, and
Lincoln College, Oxford
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, from which he graduated in 1883 with a first class honours degree. Upon leaving Oxford in 1883, he obtained an academic position in his ''alma mater'' in Aberystwyth teaching history. In 1891 he applied for the post of College Principal. However, his application was unsuccessful, which prompted him to look for an academic post elsewhere, which he obtained shortly afterwards in
Bangor University
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Lloyd married Clementina (Tina) Miller within a year of arriving in Bangor, and they had two children, Edmund and
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[Pryce, pp. 66-67.] He was knighted in 1934.
Career
Lloyd became a much-published and famous
Welsh historian
A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human species; as well as the ...
. He wrote the first serious history of the country's formative years, ''A History of Wales from the Earliest Times to the Edwardian Conquest'' (1911) and ''Owen Glendower/Owain Glyn Dŵr'' (1931). And he was the first editor of 'Y Bywgraffiadur Cymreig', which was published posthumously in 1953. Its English counterpart, the ''
Dictionary of Welsh Biography'', was published in 1959 with
Robert Thomas Jenkins as its sole editor.
Publications
The following publications are a selection of Lloyd's published output. See Garmon (1948) below and for additional publications.
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Editorships
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References
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1861 births
1947 deaths
Alumni of Lincoln College, Oxford
20th-century Welsh historians
Members of the Cambrian Archaeological Association
19th-century Welsh historians
Welsh politicians
Welsh book editors
Celtic studies scholars
Historians of Wales
Knights Bachelor
Alumni of Aberystwyth University