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Edward Lhuyd (sometimes rewritten as
Llwyd in recent times) (
1660–
June 30,
1709) was a
Welsh naturalist,
botanist,
linguist,
geographer and
antiquary.
Lhuyd was born in
Loppington,
Shropshire, the illegitimate son of Edward Lloyd of Llanforda, Oswestry and Bridget Pryse of Llan-ffraid, near Talybont, Ceredigion, and was a pupil and later a master at Oswestry Grammar School. His family belonged to the gentry of south-west
Wales; though well-established, his family wasn't well-off, and his father experimented with agriculture and industry in a manner that brought him into contact with the new science of the day. He attended
grammar school in
Oswestry and went up to
Jesus College, Oxford in
1682 but dropped out before his
graduation. In
1684, he was appointed assistant to
Robert Plot, the
Keeper of the
Ashmolean Museum and replaced him as Keeper in
1690; he held this post until
1709.
Whilst employed by the Ashmolean he travelled extensively. A visit to
Snowdonia in
1688 allowed him to construct for
John Ray's Synopsis Methodica Stirpium Britannicorum a list of
flora local to that region. After
1697, Lhuyd visited every county in Wales, and then travelled to
Scotland,
Ireland,
Cornwall, and
Brittany. In
1699, with financial aid from his friend
Isaac Newton, he published
Lithophylacii Britannici Ichnographia, a catalogue of
fossils collected from places around
England, mostly Oxford, and now held in the Ashmolean. In
1707, having been assisted in his research by fellow Welsh scholar
Moses Williams, he published the first volume of
Archaeologia Britannica: an Account of the Languages, Histories and Customs of Great Britain, from Travels through Wales, Cornwall, Bas-Bretagne, Ireland and Scotland. This book is an important source for its linguistic description of the
Cornish language.
In
1701, Lhuyd was made
MA honoris causa by the University of Oxford, and he was elected Fellow of the
Royal Society in
1708. Lhuyd died of
pleurisy in Oxford in 1709.
The Snowdon lily
Lloydia serotina bears his name, as does
Cymdeithas Edward Llwyd, the National Naturalists' Society of Wales.
He is responsible for the first scientific description and naming of what we'd now recognize as a
dinosaur: the
sauropod tooth Rutellum implicatum (Delair and Sarjeant, 2002).
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