LLOYD, JOHN (1558? - 1603), cleric and scholar
Date of birth: 1558?
Date of death: 1603
Gender: Male
Occupation: cleric and scholar
Area of activity: Religion; Scholarship and Languages
Author: Robert Thomas Jenkins
Born at Denbigh, he was a near relative of Humphrey Llwyd (c. 1527 - 1568). All that is known of him can be read in D.N.B. He was at Winchester and New College, Oxford, was Fellow of New College 1579-96, received the college living of Writtle (Essex) in 1598; died in 1603, and was buried at Writtle.
He published Josephus on the Maccabees (with a Latin translation) in 1590, and Barlaam's tract on the Papacy in 1592.
Authors
- Emeritus Professor Robert Thomas Jenkins, (1881 - 1969)
- Revised by the editorial team, 2023
- ODNB: Llwyd, Humphrey(1527–1568)
Further reading
Published date: 1959
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