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{{Short description|Welsh historian (1861–1947)}}
{{other people||John Lloyd (disambiguation)}}
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[[File:John Edward Lloyd (1894).jpg|thumb|right|Sir John Edward Lloyd (1894)]]
'''Sir John Edward Lloyd''' (5 May 1861 &ndash; 20 June 1947) was a Welsh historian.

== Early life and education ==
John Edward Lloyd was born in [[Liverpool]] on 5 May 1861. He was educated in the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth (which later become the [[University of Wales, Aberystwyth]]), which he left in 1881, and [[Lincoln College, Oxford]], from which he graduated in 1883 with a first class honours degree. Upon leaving Oxford in 1883, he obtained an academic position in his ''alma mater'' in Aberystwyth teaching history. In 1891 he applied for the post of College Principal. However, his application was unsuccessful, which prompted him to look for an academic post elsewhere, which he obtained shortly afterwards in [[Bangor University]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Pryce |first=Huw |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/J_E_Lloyd_and_the_Creation_of_Welsh_Hist/C1CuBwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=eluned+clunes+lloyd&pg=PA272&printsec=frontcover |title=J. E. Lloyd and the Creation of Welsh History: Renewing a Nation's Past |date=2011-05-15 |publisher=University of Wales Press |isbn=978-0-7083-2390-8 |pages=52 |language=en}}</ref>

Lloyd married Clementina (Tina) Miller within a year of arriving in Bangor, and they had two children, Edmund and [[Eluned Garmon Jones|Eluned]].<ref>Pryce, pp. 66-67.</ref> He was knighted in 1934.

==Career==
Lloyd became a much-published and famous [[Wales|Welsh]] [[historian]]. He wrote the first serious history of the country's formative years, ''A History of Wales from the Earliest Times to the Edwardian Conquest'' (1911) and ''Owen Glendower/Owain Glyn Dŵr'' (1931). And he was the first editor of 'Y Bywgraffiadur Cymreig', which was published posthumously in 1953. Its English counterpart, the ''[[Dictionary of Welsh Biography]]'', was published in 1959 with [[Robert Thomas Jenkins]] as its sole editor.

==Publications==
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The following publications are a selection of Lloyd's published output. See Garmon (1948) below and {{Internet Archive author |sname=John Edward Lloyd |sopt=t}} for additional publications.

===Articles===
*{{cite journal |last1=Lloyd |first1=John Edward |title=Welsh place-names: A study of some common name-elements |journal=Y Cymmrodor |date=1892 |volume=II |pages=15–60}}
*{{cite journal |last1=Lloyd |first1=John Edward |author-mask=—— |title=Hywel Dda: the historical setting |journal=Aberystwyth Studies |date=1928| volume=10 |pages=1–4}}
*{{cite journal |last1=Lloyd |first1=John Edward |author-mask=—— |title=The Welsh chronicles [Sir John Rhŷs Memorial Lecture]|journal=Proceedings of the British Academy |date=1928|volume=14 |pages=369–391}}

===Books===
*{{cite book |last1=Lloyd |first1=John Edward |title=Ail Lyfr Hanes (Hanes Cymru o 400 Hyd 1066 O.C.) |publisher=Cwmni'r Wasg Genedlaethol Gymreig |publication-date=1896 |publication-place=Caernarfon |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kKkNAAAAYAAJ
}}
*{{cite book |last1=Lloyd |first1=John |title=Historical Memoranda of Breconshire; a Collection of Papers from Various Sources Relating to the History of the County, Volume 1 |date=1903 |publisher=Ellis Owen, 'Brecon & Radnor Express Offices' |location=Brecon |url=https://archive.org/details/historicalmemora01lloyuoft/page/n7/mode/2up}}
*{{cite book |last1=Lloyd |first1=John |author-mask=—— |title=Historical Memoranda of Breconshire; a Collection of Papers from Various Sources Relating to the History of the County, Volume II |date=1904 |publisher=Bedford Press |location=London |url=https://archive.org/details/historicalmemora02lloyuoft/page/n7/mode/2up?q=%22great+forest+of+Brecknock%22}}
*{{cite book |last1=Lloyd |first1=John |author-mask=—— |title=The early history of the old South Wales iron works (1760 to 1840) |date=1906 |publisher=Bedford Press |location=London |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044050511500&view=1up&seq=204}}
*{{cite book |last1=Lloyd |first1=John Edward |title=A History of Wales from the Earliest Times to the Edwardian Conquest, Volume I |date=1911 |publisher=Longmans, Green, and Co |location=London |url=https://archive.org/details/historyofwalesfr01lloyuoft/page/n5/mode/2up}}
*{{cite book |last1=Lloyd |first1=John Edward |author-mask=—— |title=A History of Wales from the Earliest Times to the Edwardian Conquest, Volume II |date=1912 |publisher=Longmans, Green, and Co |location=London |url=https://archive.org/details/historyofwalesfr02lloyuoft/page/n7/mode/2up}}
*{{cite book |last1=Lloyd |first1=J.E. |title=Carnarvonshire |date=1914 |publisher=University Press |location=Cambridge |url=https://archive.org/details/carnarvonshire00lloy/page/n5/mode/2up}}

===Editorships===
*(With Hubert Lewis) {{cite book |last=Lloyd |first=J.E. |title=The ancient laws of Wales |date=1889 |publisher=Elliot Stock |location=London |url=https://archive.org/details/ancientlawsofwal00lewi/page/n3/mode/2up}}
*{{cite book |last=Lloyd |first=John Edward |title=Hywel Dda: Penn a Molyant yr Holl Vrytanyeit  (Brut y Tywysogion) 928-1928 |date=1928 |publisher=Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru |location=Caerdydd}}
*{{cite book |last=Lloyd |first=John Edward |date=1935 |author-mask=—— |title=A History of Carmarthenshire |volume=I |edition=1st
|publisher=London Carmarthenshire Society |publication-date=1935 |publication-place=Cardiff}}
*{{cite book |last=Lloyd |first=John Edward |date=1939 |author-mask=—— |title=A History of Carmarthenshire |volume=II |edition=1st
|publisher=London Carmarthenshire Society |publication-date=1939 |publication-place=Cardiff
}}
*(With R.T. Jenkins) {{cite book |last=Lloyd |first=John Edward |author-mask=—— |title=The Dictionary of Welsh Biography down to 1940 |publisher=Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion |publication-date=1959 |publication-place=London}}

==References==
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==Further reading==
===Articles===
*{{cite journal |last1=Jenkins |first1=R.T. |title=Syr John Edward Lloyd |journal=Y Llenor |date=1947 |volume=25 |pages=77–87}}
*{{cite dictionary  |last=Jenkins |first=Robert Thomas |contribution=Lloyd, Sir John Edward (1861 - 1947), historian, and first editor of Y Bywgraffiadur Cymreig |editor-last1=Johnston |editor-first1=Dafydd |editor-last2=Gruffydd Jones |editor-first2=Elin Haf |title=Dictionary of Welsh Biography |publisher=The National Library of Wales |date=2001 |location=Aberystwyth |url=https://biography.wales/article/s2-LLOY-EDW-1861#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=0&manifest=https%3A%2F%2Fdamsssl.llgc.org.uk%2Fiiif%2F2.0%2F5185130%2Fmanifest.json&xywh=68%2C521%2C1596%2C1287 |access-date=30 December 2024}} 
*{{cite journal |last1=Jones |first1=Garmon|title=A list of the published writings of the late Sir John Edward Lloyd |journal=Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies |date=1948 |volume=XII (4)|pages=96–105}}

===Books===
*{{cite book |last1=Pryce |first1=Huw |editor1-last=Davies |editor1-first=R.R. |editor2-last=Jenkins |editor2-first=Geraint H. |title=From medieval to modern Wales: Historical essays in honour of Kenneth O. Morgan and Ralph A. Griffiths |date=2004 |publisher=University of Wales Press |location=Cardiff |isbn=0-7083-1881-9 |chapter=From medieval to modern Wales: the Wales of John Edward Lloyd}}
*{{cite book |last1=Pryce |first1=Huw |title=J.E. Lloyd and the creation of Welsh history  Renewing a nation’s past |date=2011 |publisher=University of Wales Press |location=Cardiff |isbn=978-0-7083-2388-5}}
*{{cite book |last1=Pryce |first1=Huw |title=Writing Welsh history |date=2022 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford |isbn=978-0-19-874603-4}}

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