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Bartholomew Lloyd

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300: 352: 225:, on 5 February 1772. He was the son of Humphrey Lloyd, himself the son of the Rev. Bartholomew Lloyd of the Abbey House of New Ross. His father died while he was still a boy, and an uncle, the Rev. John Lloyd, rector of Ferns and Kilbride, to whose care he had been given, also died shortly, so that he was left to struggle for himself. He entered Trinity College Dublin, in 1787, as a pensioner. In 1790, he was 517: 246: 35: 299: 256:
In 1821, and again in 1823, and 1825, he was elected regius professor of Greek in the university, and in 1823, and again in 1827, Archbishop King's lecturer in divinity. In 1831, he was elected Provost of the college, in succession to
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A plaque to Lloyd was erected at the Tholsel, New Ross, in 2018, organised by the National Committee for Commemorative Plaques in Science and Technology. It was unveiled by Trinity Provost, Professor
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of the College, in 1792, graduated B.A., and in 1796, he obtained a junior fellowship. He graduated M.A. in the same year, B.D. in 1805, and D.D. in 1808.
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Lloyd was married young to Eleanor McLaughlin, by whom he had ten children, four sons and six daughters. The eldest was
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Trinity's magnetic observatory was founded through Lloyd's influence. In 1835, he was appointed president of the
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there, he promoted significant curricular reforms, including the introduction of the teaching of
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Discourses, chiefly Doctrinal, delivered in the Chapel of Trinity College, Dublin
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Erasmus Smith's Professor of Natural and Experimental Philosophy
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Bust of Bartholomew Lloyd, displayed in the Long Room in TCD
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In addition to scientific papers, Lloyd was the author of:
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The Reverend

Provost of Trinity College Dublin
Samuel Kyle
Franc Sadleir
New Ross
County Wexford
Dublin
Trinity College Chapel
Humphrey
Alma mater
Trinity College Dublin
Provost of Trinity College Dublin
Trinity College Dublin
Erasmus Smith's Professor of Mathematics
calculus
New Ross
County Wexford
elected a Scholar
Erasmus Smith's Professor of Mathematics
William Magee
Erasmus Smith's Professor of Natural and Experimental Philosophy
William Davenport
Samuel Kyle
bishop of Cork and Ross
Royal Irish Academy
British Association
Dublin
apoplexy
Thomas Kirk

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