Edward Lhuyd

Edward Lhuyd
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Lhuyd's bust outside the University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies in Aberystwyth
Born1660 (1660)
Loppington, Kingdom of England
Died30 June 1709(1709-06-30) (aged 48–49)
Oxford, Kingdom of England
Alma materUniversity of Oxford

Edward Lhuyd (/lɔɪd/ LOYD; Welsh: [ˈɬʊid]; 1660 – 30 June 1709), also known as Edward Lhwyd and by other spellings, was a British scientist, geographer, historian and antiquary. He was the second Keeper of the University of Oxford's Ashmolean Museum, and published the first catalogue of fossils, the Lithophylacii Britannici Ichnographia.

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