EDWARD

See also:

• EDWARD LLWYD (166o-1709)

LLWYD (166o-1709)  , British naturalist and antiquary, was born in Cardiganshire in 166o . He was educated at Jesus College, Oxford, but did not graduate; he received the degree of M.A. however in 1701 . In 169o, after serving for six years as assistant, he succeeded R . Plot as keeper of the Ashmolean museum, a position which he retained until 1709 . In 1699 he published Lithophylacii Britannici Ichnographia, in which he described and figured various fossils, personally collected or received from his friends, and these were arranged in cabinets in the museum . They were obtained from many parts of England, but mostly from the neighbourhood of Oxford . A second edition was prepared by Llwyd, but not published until 176o . He issued in 1707 the first volume of Archaeologia Britannica (afterwards discontinued) . He was elected F.R.S. in 1708 . He died at Oxford on the 3oth of June 1709 .