John Edward Lloyd

Lloyd was initially educated in a private school, 'Chatham Institute', in Liverpool.^[1] Having succeeded in his 'Oxford Local Examinations',^[2] in 1877 Lloyd enrolled in the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, Wales, the first constituent college in the federal University of Wales, in which two years later, he passed 'the matriculation examination for London University'.^[3] However, 'his sights were set on Oxford'^[3] and in 1881 he enrolled in Lincoln College, Oxford.^[4] In 1883 he graduated from the college with a first class honours degree in Classical Moderations.^[5] Upon leaving Oxford in 1883, Lloyd then obtained his first academic position in Aberystwyth teaching English history.^[6] In 1891 he applied for the post of its College Principal. However, his application was unsuccessful. Feeling slighted, he looked for an academic post elsewhere, which he obtained shortly afterwards in Bangor University.^[7]

Within a year of arriving in Bangor, Lloyd married Clementina (Tina) Miller, a former student from Aberdeen, Scotland, who had attended his history classes.^[8] They had two children, Eluned, who was born in 1897, and Edward, who was born in 1904.^[9] He was knighted in 1934.

Lloyd became a much-published and famous Welsh historian. In 1906 he made a substantial contribution to the history of iron production in South Wales with his illustrated The early history of the old South Wales iron works (1760 to 1840)^[10], which was based upon what came to be called the Maybery Papers after their initial custodian, Arthur Maybery, solicitor of Brecon^[11]. In 1911 and 1912 he had published the first serious history of the country's formative years with his two-volume A History of Wales from the Earliest Times to the Edwardian Conquest.^[12][13] In 1919 he was admitted as a Fellow to the Society of Antiquaries of London.^[14] And in 1932 he had published his Owain Glyn Dŵr (Owen Glendower).^[15] 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.

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John Edward Lloyd

The following publications are a selection of Lloyd's published output. See Jones (1948) under 'Further reading' and Works by or about John Edward Lloyd at the Internet Archive for additional publications.