| 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
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| 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 |
| EL/L5/118 | Letter, from Edward Ludi to Christoph Hemmer | 20 April 1693 |
| 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/L5/119 | 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] |