Bartholomew Lloyd

Life
1772-1837; ed. TCD, MA 1796; DD 1808; Erasmus Smith Prof. of maths, 1813; introduced the teaching of calculus at TCD; Regius Prof. of Greek 1821, 1823, 1823; Smith Prof. of natural and experimental philosophy, 1822; king’s lect. in divinity, 1823 and 1827; provost of TCD, 1831-37; pres. RIA 1835; d. of apoplexy; cur. in College Chapel; the Lloyd Exhibitions founded in his memory, 1839; there is a marble bust by Thomas Kirk in the Long Room of TCD Library; works incl. Treatise on Analytic Geometry (1819) and Discourses, Chiefly Doctrinal, delivered at the Chapel of Trinity College (1826); An Elementary Treatise of Mechanical Philosophy (also 1826). ODNB [WIKI]

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