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EDWARD Lhwyd, or Lloyd, was the natural fon of Edward Lloyd of
Llhan Vorda near Ofweflry in the county of Salop, efq; by Bridget,
fecond daughter of-Price, of Glanfrid in Cardiganfhire, efq. His
father was a man of difiblute life and morals, extremely extravagant in the
indulgence of his amours ; fo that although there had been a marriage
contraft drawn up between his parents, it was never executed. By his
prodigality having fo exhaufied his finances, that he was obliged to fell
his eftate to the anceflors of fir Watkin Williams, he died loon after his
ion’s birth, without being able to make any fuitable provifion for him, and
was buried at Ofweflry, March 3, 1662.
From the circumflances already mentioned, it is difficult to afcertain
the precife time or place of Edward Llwyd’s birth, or where he received the
early part of his education ; but from the regiiler of Jefus college in Oxford
it appears that he was born in the year of the reiteration, having been en-
tered in that college at the age of twenty two, Oft. 31, 1682, and
matriculated Nov. 17 following.
It is probable he had made fome progrefs in the iludy of natural hiilory
before his admifiion to the univerfity ; for in 1684 he was employed in di-
gelling the fpecimens, and comparing the catalogues, of Mr. Aihmole’s
colleftion, which in the preceding year had been fent to Oxford. In the
flation of under-keeper in that gentleman’s Mufeum, he continued till
1690, when he fucceeded to the head keeper's place, vacant by the re-
fignation of his friend and patron, Dr. Plot.
The great progrefs he made in thofe fludies, which the nature of his
office prompted him to purfue, is very vifible in his lythopbylacium Britan-
nicum: by which it appears that he had either vifited or fettled corre-
fpondences in almoft every part of Great Britain. In 1693 he was em-
ployed in collefting materials, relative to Wales, for the new edition of
Camden's Brittanma, at the defire, and probably expence, of Mr. Gibfon.
His extenfive knowledge of natural hiftory, as well as of antiquities,
had made him fufficiently known to the world; but as a complete ac-
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Llhan Vorda near Ofweflry in the county of Salop, efq; by Bridget,
fecond daughter of-Price, of Glanfrid in Cardiganfhire, efq. His
father was a man of difiblute life and morals, extremely extravagant in the
indulgence of his amours ; fo that although there had been a marriage
contraft drawn up between his parents, it was never executed. By his
prodigality having fo exhaufied his finances, that he was obliged to fell
his eftate to the anceflors of fir Watkin Williams, he died loon after his
ion’s birth, without being able to make any fuitable provifion for him, and
was buried at Ofweflry, March 3, 1662.
From the circumflances already mentioned, it is difficult to afcertain
the precife time or place of Edward Llwyd’s birth, or where he received the
early part of his education ; but from the regiiler of Jefus college in Oxford
it appears that he was born in the year of the reiteration, having been en-
tered in that college at the age of twenty two, Oft. 31, 1682, and
matriculated Nov. 17 following.
It is probable he had made fome progrefs in the iludy of natural hiilory
before his admifiion to the univerfity ; for in 1684 he was employed in di-
gelling the fpecimens, and comparing the catalogues, of Mr. Aihmole’s
colleftion, which in the preceding year had been fent to Oxford. In the
flation of under-keeper in that gentleman’s Mufeum, he continued till
1690, when he fucceeded to the head keeper's place, vacant by the re-
fignation of his friend and patron, Dr. Plot.
The great progrefs he made in thofe fludies, which the nature of his
office prompted him to purfue, is very vifible in his lythopbylacium Britan-
nicum: by which it appears that he had either vifited or fettled corre-
fpondences in almoft every part of Great Britain. In 1693 he was em-
ployed in collefting materials, relative to Wales, for the new edition of
Camden's Brittanma, at the defire, and probably expence, of Mr. Gibfon.
His extenfive knowledge of natural hiftory, as well as of antiquities,
had made him fufficiently known to the world; but as a complete ac-
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