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Authorised form of nameLloyd; John Augustus (1800 - 1854); engineer and surveyor
Dates1800 - 1854
NationalityBritish
Place of birthLondon, England
Date of birth01 May 1800
Place of deathTherapia [Tarabya, Turkey], Asia
Date of death10 October 1854
Occupationengineer and surveyor
Research fieldSurveying
Engineering
ActivityEducation:
Private schools at Tooting and Winchester
Career:
Carried out a survey of the Winkworth mines, Derbyshire; the end of the Napoleonic wars prevented him from his desire of joining the army but was sent out to his elder brother, who was king’s counsel at Tortola, where he spent time surveying and learning languages; served on Simón Bolívar’s staff as captain of engineers, attaining the rank of lieutenant-colonel; granted permission by Bolivar to survey the Isthmus of Panama and report on the best means of inter-oceanic communication (1827); progress curtailed by disturbances at Cartagena where Lloyd was badly wounded (1828); completed the Panama survey; recommended a road on the route later adopted for the Panama Canal Railway; returned to England (1830); went to Mauritius and was appointed colonial civil engineer and surveyor-general (1831); climbed the Peter Botte (Pieter Both) Mountain (1831); carried out extensive public works in Mauritius and compiled a new map of Madagascar; left the island, reaching Europe via Ceylon (4 April 1849); sent as British chargé d'affaires to Bolivia (1851); began a mission in the Crimean War to stir up the Circassians, being kept in the Crimea following the battle of the Alma and died there of cholera (1854).
Memberships:
Institution of Civil Engineers 1849
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election11/03/1830
Age at election24
ProposerHenry Kater; Francis Beaufort; Henry Browne; Charles Konig; John Lewis Tiarks; Edmund Goodenough; Joseph Sabine
RelationshipsParents: John Lloyd of King's Lynn, Norfolk
Spouse: Fanny Drummond Lloyd
Image

Lloyd J A, IM002786.jpg

SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
References:
A W Skempton and Joyce Brown, 'John and Edward Troughton, Mathematical Instrument Makers' in NR 1972-3 vol 27 pp 233-262
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/41895239
CodeNA1394
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
EC/1830/12Lloyd, John Augustus: certificate of election to the Royal Society
MC/3/309Letter from John Augustus Lloyd, Port-Louis, Mauritius, to the Secretary of the Royal Society4 November 1843
IM/002786Lloyd, John Augustus1851
MC/1/291Letter from John Augustus Lloyd, 19 [John] Adam Street, Adelphi, to John George Children, Secretary of the Royal Society 16 March 1831
MS/425/10Copy letter, John William Lubbock, Treasurer of the Royal Society, to [John] Augustus Lloyd 17 March 1831
MS/426/77Copy letter from J W L [John William Lubbock], Treasurer of the Royal Society; to J R [John Rae] Reid-Bart M P12 January 1844
MC/4/161Letter from Lieutenant-Colonel [John Augustus] Lloyd, [colonial civil engineer], Mauritius, to the Secretary of the Royal Society3 November 1846
MS/426/384Copy letter from C R [Charles Richard] Weld, the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Captain [Sidney?] Shippard9 June 1849
MS/170Documents relating to John Augustus Lloyd's paper on the difference of level of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans1830
PT/19/13/2Plate, 'Navy well, Sheerness Yard' by unknown artist[1830]
PT/19/13/1Plate, 'Situation of the standard marks in the Isles of Grain and Sheppey' by unknown artist[1830]
PT/19/11Letter, regarding tides in Sheerness from J [James] Mitchell to John Augustus Lloyd6 June 1830
MC/1/233Letter from John Augustus Lloyd, 5 Whitehall Place, Gravesend, to Davies Gilbert, President of the Royal Society, Bridge Street, Westminster5 June 1830
MC/1/249Letter from John Augustus Lloyd, 2 Circus Street, Greenwich, to Davies Gilbert, President of the Royal Society 19 July 1830
PT/19/13Plates, relating to 'An account of operations carried on for ascertaining the difference of level between the River Thames at London Bridge and the sea; and also for determining the height above the level of the sea, &c. of intermediate points passed over between Sheerness and London Bridge' by John Augustus Lloyd[1830]
MC/1/248Letter from Dr. Peter Mark Roget, [Secretary of the Royal Society], to [John Augustus] Lloyd17 July 1830
MC/1/251Letter from John Augustus Lloyd, Greenwich, to Davies Gilbert, President of the Royal Society, Bodmyn, Cornwall28 July 1830
PT/19/12Letter, correcting tidal observations from John Hansfield to John Augustus Lloyd17 December 1830
MC/1/262Letter from John Augustus Lloyd, Admiralty Office, to Davies Gilbert10 December 1830
MC/1/289Letter from John Augustus Lloyd, 19 [John] Adam Street, Adelphi, to [Prince Augustus Frederick], the Duke of Sussex, President of the Royal Society, 15 March 1831
MC/1/300Letter from James Hudson, [Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society], to the Royal Society5 April 1831
MC/3Volume 3 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1839-1843
MC/3/116Letter from Major Edward Sabine, 3 St James's Place, to John Frederic Daniell, Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society17 November 1840
MC/3/117Letter from John Frederic Daniell, Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society, to Captain [John Augustus] Lloyd20 November 1840
MC/3/276Letter from John Augustus Lloyd, Port-Louis, Mauritius, to the Secretary of the Royal Society3 May 1843
PT/19/10Observations, from 'An account of operations carried on for ascertaining the difference of level between the River Thames at London Bridge and the sea; and also for determining the height above the level of the sea, &c. of intermediate points passed over between Sheerness and London Bridge' by John Augustus Lloyd[1831]
MC/1Volume 1 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1800-1831
MS/426/250Copy letter from C R [Charles Richard] Weld, the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Lieut Col J A [John Augustus] Lloyd, Mauritius15 January 1847
MC/4Volume 4 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1844-1850
AP/23/35Unpublished paper, 'Second series of approximate deductions made from about 50,000 observations taken during the years 1836, 1837 & 1838 at the Port Louis Observatory Mauritius, four times each day' by J A [John Augustus] Lloyd30 October 1839
AP/21/5Unpublished observations, 'Meteorological deductions made from observations made at the Observatory, Port Louis, Mauritius' by John Augustus Lloyd1837
MS/257/2/263Letter from John Frederick William Herschel, Feldhausen to John Augustus Lloyd, Port Louis, Mauritius12 March 1835
MA/150Meteorological observations at Port Louis, Mauritius, [by John Augustus Lloyd?]2 January 1833-31 December 1834
MA/151Meteorological observations at Port Louis, Mauritius, [by John Augustus Lloyd?]1 January-31 December 1835
MA/152Meteorological observations at Port Louis, Mauritius, by John Augustus Lloyd1 January-31 December 1836
MA/153Meteorological observations at Port Louis, Mauritius, by John Augustus Lloyd1 January 1837-30 December 1838
HS/11/294Letter, from John Augustus Lloyd to Sir John Herschel, dated at Mauritius10 February 1836
MS/233Operations connected with the Levellings carried across the Isthmus of Panama by John Augustus Lloyd
HS/11/298Letter, from John Augustus Lloyd to Sir John Herschel, dated at Mauritius7 November 1837
HS/11/295Incomplete letter, from John Augustus Lloyd to Sir John Herschel, dated at Mauritius15 April 1836
HS/11/296Incomplete letter, from John Augustus Lloyd to Sir John Herschel, dated at Mauritius2 November 1836
HS/19/242Table of expenses for the Port Louis observatory [Mauritius], by John Augustus Lloyd31 October 1837
HS/11/293Letter, from John Augustus Lloyd to Sir John Herschel, dated at Mauritius3 August 1835
HS/11/300Incomplete letter, from John Augustus Lloyd to Sir John Herschel, dated at Mauritius14 February 1836
HS/11/297Letter, from John Augustus Lloyd to Sir John Herschel, dated at Mauritius15 May 1837
HS/11/299Letter, from John Augustus Lloyd to [Sir William Nicolay, Governor of Mauritius, dated at MauritiusOctober 1837
HS/25/4/18Copy letter, from Sir John Herschel to John Augustus Lloyd, dated at Feldhausen5 December 1835
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