Sir John Edward Lloyd (5 May 1861 – 20 June 1947) was a Welsh historian.

Early life and eduction

John Edward Lloyd was born in

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on 5 May 1861. He was educated in the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth (which later become the

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), which he left in 1881, and

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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

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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

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. 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 ''

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'', was published in 1959 with

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as its sole editor.

Publications

The following publications are a selection of Lloyd's published output. See Garmon (1948) below and for additional publications.

Articles

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Books

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Editorships

*(With Hubert Lewis) * * * *(With R.T. Jenkins)

Early life and eduction

Career

Publications

Articles

Books

Editorships

References

Further reading

Articles

Books