him to the Earl of Pembroke, a great patron of the fine arts, who also supplied him with the means of visiting Italy, for the purpose of studying landscape painting.  While at Venice, the works of Paladio inspired him with a taste for architecture, in the practice of which he arrived at unrivalled excellence.  His reputation recommended him to the notice of Christiern the Fourth, King of Denmark, who bestowed on him the post of first architect.  Having returned to England, he was appointed architect to the Queen, and Prince Henry, and afterwards to the Board of Works.  His acknowledged taste in classical architecture obtained for him sufficient employment from court, and many of the nobility and gentry, so that he realized a handsome fortune.  Many proofs exist of the elegant taste of this great architect; and he was also commissioner for the repairing of St. Paul’s Cathedral, all of which was ruined by the great fire; but it was subsequently rebuilt after Jones’s original design.  During the civil war he was forced to pay a fine on account of his known attachment to the royal family; and being distressed at the ruin of the royal cause, and worn down with suffering and old age, he died in July, 1652.  He was a good geometrician, and well skilled in various branches of literature and science; but as an author he only published a curious treatise, to attempt to prove that Stonehenge was a Roman temple.

John Jones, L.L.D., an eminent divine and philologist, was a native of Caermarthenshire.  He was educated at the Dissenting College of Hackney; and he became tutor in several Dissenting academies successively in Wales and England.  He finally settled in London, where he spent his time in editing his numerous works; among the most popular of which are his “Greek and English Lexicon,” and his “Grammar,” both Greek and Latin, besides other works on education; and he likewise was held in great esteem as a private tutor.  He died in London in 1827.

William Jones, an eminent mathematician, was born in the Isle of Anglesey in 1680.  At a very early age he applied himself diligently to the study of mathematics; and in his twenty-second year he published a “Compendium of the Art of Navigation,” which was much approved of.  He began his career in teaching these sciences on board of a man-of-war; and he was present at the capture of Vigo.  On his return to England, he gave instructions in the mathematics in London, and having attracted the notice of some influential men, he was appointed by Lord Hardwicke secretary of the peace.  He enjoyed the friendship of the great mathematicians and writers of the age, among whom were Newton, Halley, Head, and Dr. Johnson.  He was member of the Royal Society, and then vice-president.  He was author of several valuable papers on mathematics, which were published in the Philosophical Transactions.  He died of a polypus in the heart in July, 1749.

Sir William Jones, the celebrated oriental scholar, was the son of the subject of the preceding article, and was born in London, September, 1746.  He received his early education at Harrow School, where he was sent in his eighth year.  He very soon attracted the notice of the masters by his splendid genius; and in 1764, he was entered at University College, Oxford.  While here, he supported, at his own expense, a native of Aleppo, for the purpose of acquiring the true pronunciation of the Arabic.  And having undertaken the office of tutor to Lord Althorpe, he went with him to the German Spa, where he perfected himself in the German language; and on his return, he distinguished himself by translating the “Life of Nadir Shah” into French, which language he wrote with much elegance.  He obtained a college fellowship, and afterwards entered himself as a law student in the Temple.  In 1772, he published some poems, and in the same year was elected a fellow of the Royal Society; and in 1774, he was called to the bar; about two years after, he was made commissioner of bankrupts.  In the mean time, he published several works, chiefly in oriental literature, which excited the admiration of the world; and at the same time he was advancing rapidly in professional reputation.  In an election for the University of Oxford he offered himself as a candidate, where, however, though respectably supported, he did not succeed.  On the accession of the Shelburne administration, he obtained what had long been the summit of his ambition—the appointment of Judge in the Supreme Court of Judicature in Bengal, to which he was nominated in 1783, and received the honour of knighthood.  He married Miss Shipley, the daughter of the Bishop of St. Asaph; and in the same year he arrived at Calcutta.  While in India, he wrote numerous translations from the Hindostanee, and formed there a society, similar to the Royal Society of London, of which he was chosen the first president.  He next undertook to compile a complete digest of the Hindoo and Mohammedan laws, which was not however completed by him.  In 1794, he was seized with an inflammation of the liver, and died on the 27th of April, in the forty-eighth year of his age.  Few men have died more respected and lamented than Sir William Jones: his genius and profound learning had attracted the praise of all; and as a linguist, he has not been surpassed, for he knew no less than twenty-nine languages, and most of them critically.  All his works were collected and published by his widow, in six volumes, quarto.

Lloyd, Lord Kenyon, was born in Gredington, Flintshire, in 1732.  He was the second son of a gentleman of independent fortune, and was originally intended to be brought up as a solicitor, and he was under the instruction of an eminent lawyer at Nantwich.  In consequence of the death of an elder brother, he was entered at the Middle Temple, and after being called to the bar, he attended various circuits before he obtained any practice, which caused him to despair of succeeding in his profession, and think of applying himself to divinity, and taking orders.  Active attention, however, and indefatigable industry, brought him at length to notice and extensive practice.  He confined himself afterwards entirely to the Court of Chancery, where he obtained the most distinguished celebrity, although he ranked high as a common lawyer.  He conducted the defence of Lord George Gordon, when he was tried for high treason.  In 1780 he was appointed Lord Chief Justice of Chester, and he twice filled the office of Attorney-general.  On the death of Sir John Sewell, he accepted the office of Master of the Rolls, and in 1788 he succeeded Lord Mansfield as Lord Chief Justice of the King’s Bench, where he gave the greatest satisfaction by his integrity and able administration of justice.  He died in 1802, in his seventieth year.

David Lloyd, L.L.D., was born at Llanidloes, Montgomeryshire, in the year 1603.  He was entered at the age of fourteen at All Soul’s College, Oxford, where he afterwards became a fellow.  Having taken orders, he obtained the rectory of Trevdraeth, in Anglesea, in 1641, which he resigned on his presentation to Llangynhaval in the following year, and became successively vicar of Llanvair, in Dyfryn Clwyd, and warden of Ruthin, and prebendary of Chester; out of all of which he was ejected after the breaking out of the civil war, and for his loyalty he was a great sufferer.  On the accession of Charles the Second, he was restored to his benefices, and promoted to the deanery of St. Asaph in 1660.  He was esteemed an ingenious man, and a good poet; and he published several pieces which were prized for their