John Lloyd FRS (25 January 1750 – 24 April 1815) was a British naturalist. He was the eldest son of Howel Lloyd of

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and Wigfair, was probably educated at

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and then studied law at the

Middle Temple The Honourable Society of the Middle Temple, commonly known simply as Middle Temple, is one of the four Inns of Court exclusively entitled to call their members to the English Bar as barristers, the others being the Inner Temple, Gray's Inn ...

, where he was called to the bar in 1781. A man with a wide interest in the natural sciences including seismology and astronomy, he was elected a

Fellow of the Royal Society Fellowship of the Royal Society (FRS, ForMemRS and HonFRS) is an award granted by the judges of the Royal Society of London to individuals who have made a "substantial contribution to the improvement of natural knowledge, including mathemat ...

in 1774. He was the

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(MP) for

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from 1797 to 1799. He died unmarried in 1815.

Selected works

"An Account of the Late Discovery of Native Gold in Ireland,"
Letter from John Lloyd, Esq. F.R.S. to Sir Joseph Banks, Bart. KB PRS. ''Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London,'' Vol. 86 (1796), pp. 34–37.

References

External links

Royal Society The Royal Society, formally The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, is a learned society and the United Kingdom's national academy of sciences. The society fulfils a number of roles: promoting science and its benefits, re ...

—John Lloyd was elected to membership in the Society in 1774; and his nomination letter has been posted with other membership records at the Royal Society web site.

Those who nominated him for membership in the society were:

Daines Barrington Daines Barrington, FRS, FSA (1727/2814 March 1800) was an English lawyer, antiquary and naturalist. He was one of the correspondents to whom Gilbert White wrote extensively on natural history topics. Barrington served as a Vice President of t ...

;

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; Charles Blagden;

William Roy Major-General William Roy (4 May 17261 July 1790) was a Scottish military engineer, surveyor, and antiquarian. He was an innovator who applied new scientific discoveries and newly emerging technologies to the accurate geodetic mapping of ...

; John Walsh;

Samuel Horsley Samuel Horsley (15 September 1733 – 4 October 1806) was a British churchman, bishop of Rochester from 1793. He was also well versed in physics and mathematics, on which he wrote a number of papers and thus was elected a Fellow of the Royal So ...

; Joseph Banks; Edward King;

Charles Francis Greville Charles Francis Greville PC FRS FRSE FLS FSA (12 May 1749 – 23 April 1809) was a British antiquarian, collector and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1774 to 1790. Early life Greville was the second son of Francis Greville ...

; Francis Wollaston; Constantine Phipps; Richard Penneck;

Owen Salusbury Brereton Owen Salusbury Brereton, (1715 – 8 September 1798), born Owen Brereton, was an English antiquary. Life Brereton was born in London in 1715, the son of Thomas Brereton, M.P. for Liverpool, by his first wife, Miss Trelawney. His father had inher ...

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