wit.  He died at Ruthin in September, 1663.

David Lloyd, M.A., was born at Trawsvynydd, Merionethshire, in 1635, and educated at Ruthin School.  He removed thence to Oriel College, Oxford, where he graduated, and obtained a college living.  He subsequently retired to Wales, where he was appointed chaplain to Bishop Barrow, who, besides other preferment, gave him a canonry in the diocese of St. Asaph.  He was afterwards vicar of Northop, where he resided for several years; he published several works, of which the principal are “Worthies of the World,” 1665, octavo; “Memories of Statesmen and Favourites of England,” octavo.  He was zealous and industrious in the discharge of his clerical duties, and esteemed by all for his charitable disposition.  On finding his health decaying, he retired to the place of his nativity, where he died in 1691.

Henry Lloyd was the son of a clergyman in Wales, where he was born in 1729.  His early education he received from his father, who instructed him in the classics and mathematics.  Being intended for the army, he went abroad, and was at the battle of Fontenoy; he afterwards travelled in Germany, and resided in Austria for some years, where he was appointed aid-de-camp to Marshal Lascy, and received higher promotion.  In 1760 he commanded a large detachment of cavalry and infantry, which was destined to observe the motions of the Prussians.  He executed this service with great success; but soon after, for some reason, he threw up his commission in disgust.  He was next employed by the King of Prussia, and served in two campaigns until the peace.  On the breaking out of the war between the Turks and Russians, he offered his services to Catherine the Second, who made him a major-general, and he greatly distinguished himself at the seige of Silistria in 1774, and subsequently he had the command of 30,000 men in the war with Sweden.  After his return to England, he published several works on military tactics, which are highly thought of, and placed him in a high rank as a military writer.  He died at Huy, in the Netherlands, in 1783.

Hugh Lloyd, D.D., was a native of South Wales, where he was born in the year 1589, and having been brought up for the church, and having received an University education, he became rector of Llangatoc, in Breconshire, and archdeacon of St. David’s.  In 1660 he was advanced to the bishopric of Llandav, where he continued until his death, which took place in 1667, and he was buried in his cathedral.

Humffrey Lloyd, D.D., was born in 1610, at Trawsvynydd, Merionethshire.  He received an academical education; and having taken orders, he became in time, a prebendary of York, and vicar of Rhiwabon, in Denbighshire, and likewise a prebendary of Chester; out of which he was ejected in the great rebellion; but living to be restored in 1660, he was made canon of St. Asaph the following year, and in 1667 dean of the same cathedral; in 1673 he was raised to the bishopric of Bangor.  He was a great benefactor to his cathedral, and greatly increased the revenues of his see.  He died in 1688.

John Lloyd, D.D., was a native of Caermarthenshire, where he was born in 1638.  He was entered at Merton College, Oxford, whence he removed to Jesus College, where he graduated, and of which in time he became prebendary.  He also discharged the office of vice-chancellor in that University with great satisfaction, and was held in high esteem for his piety and learning.  In 1686 he was promoted to the bishopric of St. David’s, but by reason of ill health he removed to Oxford, and died at Jesus College in 1687.

Nicholas Lloyd, an eminent divine, and philological writer, was born in Flintshire in 1634.  He received his education at Winchester School, and Wadham College, Oxford, where he obtained a fellowship.  He was for some years rector of Newington Butts, near London, to which he had been appointed by the Bishop of Worcester, to whom he was chaplain.  He died there in 1680.  He published an excellent and highly esteemed “Historical and Geographical Dictionary,” in Latin, which has been the basis of many similar compilations.

William Lloyd, D.D., an eminent prelate, was the son of the Rev. Richard Lloyd, Rector of Tilehurst, Berks, who came from Henblas, in Anglesea, and was born at his father’s living in 1627.  At the early age of eleven he was entered at Oriel College, Oxford, whence he removed to New College, and subsequently to Jesus College, where he became successively a scholar and fellow.  Having taken orders in 1648, he was presented to the rectory of Bradfield, Berks, in 1654, which he afterwards resigned.  He was appointed chaplain to Charles the Second, and prebendary of Salisbury, then rector of St. Mary’s, in Reading, and archdeacon of Merioneth; four years after, he was made dean of Bangor.  After various other preferment, he was advanced to the bishopric of St. Asaph in 1680.  He was one of the seven bishops who were committed to the Tower for subscribing and presenting a petition to King James, deprecating his assumed power of suspending the laws against popery.  Bishop Lloyd having heartily concurred in the Revolution, was appointed lord almoner to King William, and in 1692 he was translated to Lichfield and Coventry, and thence in 1699 to Worcester.  His writings, which relate to history and divinity are greatly prized, and are distinguished for the learning and acute judgment exhibited in them.  He died in 1717.

William Lloyd, D.D., was a native of Wales, and was educated at St. John’s College, Cambridge, and graduated there.  Having taken orders, he obtained various preferment, and in 1675 he was made bishop of Llandaff, from whence he was translated to Peterborough in 1679, and thence in 1685 to the see of Norwich, out of which he was ejected for not taking the oath to King William and Queen Mary.  He retired to Hammersmith, near London, where he died in 1710.

Edward Llwyd, M.A., an eminent British antiquary and naturalist, was a native of Cardiganshire, where he was born about 1670.  At the age of seventeen, he was entered at Jesus College, Oxford, where he graduated.  He succeeded Dr. Plot, the keeper of the Ashmolean Museum, and applied himself with great diligence to the study of the language of the early Britons, and for that purpose he travelled in the countries where it still remained.  After having visited Ireland, Scotland, Cornwall, and Bretagne, and making himself perfect in the various dialects, he published the results of his accurate observations in the “Archæologia Britannica,” which was the first volume of a series on a great plan, which he did not live to carry on; and his death taking place before the ample materials which he had provided were properly arranged for the press, the whole of his manuscripts were sold to Sir Thomas Sebright, but not before Jesus College and the University had refused to purchase them.  They subsequently came to the possession of Colonel Johnes, of Havod, and were mostly burnt in the fire which nearly destroyed that gentleman’s mansion.  He died in 1709.  He was also author of “Lithophylacii Britannici Ichnographia,” and a catalogue of the manuscripts in the Ashmolean Museum, besides several papers published in the Philosophical Transactions.

Humfrey Lloyd, M.A., a learned antiquary and historian, was born in the town of Denbigh in 1527.  He was entered a gentleman commoner of Brazen-nose College, Oxford, where he graduated in 1551, and studied