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Authorised form of name	Lhuyd; Edward (1660 - 1709); naturalist and antiquary
Other forms of surname	Lhwyd
Dates	1660 - 1709
Nationality	British
Place of birth	Glan Ffraid, Llanfihangel Geneu'r Glyn, Cardiganshire, Wales
Date of birth	1660
Place of death	Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Date of death	30 June 1709
DatesAndPlaces	Burial: South aisle, St Michael's Church, Oxford
Research field	Palaeontology
	Botany
	Philology
Activity	Education: Jesus College, Oxford (matriculated 1682; no degree). MA honora causa (1701, Oxon) Career: Assistant to Robert Plot (FRS 1677); Under-keeper (1684), then Head Keeper (1690), Ashmolean Museum; travelled to Scotland (1699), Ireland (1700), Cornwall and Brittany (1701); arrested in Helston, Cornwall on suspicion of theft and in St Pol de Leon as a spy, but was released after 18 days imprisonment in Brest; collected natural history specimens for the Ashmolean Museum; employed by Dr Gibson to provided information on Wales for a new edition of Camden's 'Britannia'; MA granted on condition that he give six lectures a year on natural history; published 'Archaeologia Britannica' (1707); in opposition to Dr Woodward over creation of fossils; Superior Beadle of Divinity, Oxford (1709); died due to an attack of pleurisy, complicated by asthma
Membership category	Fellow
Date of election	30/11/1708
Other Royal Society activity	Proposed 24 November 1708
Relationships	Natural son of Edward Llwyd of Llanvorda, near Oswestry and Bridget, daughter of Mr Pryse of Gogerddan, Cardiganshire
Source	Sources: Bulloch's Roll; DNB; DSB; Foster Authority: Altname from DSB
Code	NA7782

Archives associated with this Fellow

RefNo	Title	Date
EL/L5/120	Letter, from Edward Lhwyd to Martin Lister, dated at Dol Gelhey	20 January 1694
CLP/9i/52/2	Plate, ten figures showing fossils of aquatic animals by William Jones	[1698]
CLP/9i/52/3	Plate, nine figures showing fossils of aquatic animals by William Jones	[1698]
CLP/9i/52/1	Manuscript, 'An explication of the figures in the plate with further remarks by another Fellow of the Royal Society' by Edward Lhwyd in a letter to Martin Lister	[1698]
EL/L5/118	Letter, from Edward Ludi to Christopher Hemmer	20 April 1693
EL/L5/119	Letter, from Edward Lhwyd to Martin Lister	1693
EL/I1/181	Letter, from Maurice Jones to Edward Lhwyd	1693
EL/L5/121	Letter, from Edward Lhwyd to Martin Lister	1693
EL/L5/122	Letter, from Edward Lhwyd to Martin Lister, dated at Oxford	1693
EL/L5/123	Letter, from Edward Lhwyd to Martin Lister, dated at Pembroke	5 June 1698
EL/D1/39	Letter, from Samuel Dale to Edward Lhwyd, dated at Braintree	February 1703
CLP/22i/73	Letter, Account of [Johann Jakob] Scheuchzer's book '[Ouresiphoites] Helveticus sive Itinera Alpina tria ... [Survey of Switzerland, or three Alpine travels]' from Edward Lhuyd to Richard Richardson	3 April 1708
EL/L6/1	Letter, from Johann Jakob Lungershausen to Edward Lhwyd	2 May 1695
CLP/22i/71	Paper, Account of 'Archaeologia Britannica [British archaeology]' by Edward Lhuyd	[1707]
CLP/9i/52	Paper, 'An explication of the figures in the plate with further remarks by another Fellow of the Royal Society' by Edward Lhwyd in a letter to Martin Lister	[1698]

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