Nicholas Lloyd

son of George Lloyd a Minister of Gods word, was born at Wonson alias Wonsington near Winchester in Hampshire, educated in Wykehams School there, admitted Scholar of Wadham Coll. from Hart Hall 20. Oct. 1653 aged 19 years, and afterwards Fellow and Master of Arts. In the year 1665 when Dr. Blandford Warden of that Coll. became Bishop of Oxon, our author Lloyd was made his Chaplain (being about that time Rector of S. Martins Ch. in Oxon) and continued with him till he was translated to Worcester. At length the Rectory of Newington S. Marie near Lambeth in Surrey falling void, the said Dr. Blandford, as Bishop of Worcester, presented him to it, an. 1672. which he kept to his dying day. He hath written,

Dictionarium Historicum, Geographicum, Poeticum, gentium, hominum, deorum gentilium, regionum, insularum, locorum, civitatum, &c. ad sacras & profanas historias, poetarumꝫ fabulas intellegendas necessaria, nomina, quo decet ordine, complectens & illustrans, &c. Oxon. 1670. fol, mostly taken from the Dictionaries of Car. Stephanus and Phil. Ferrarius. Afterwards the author made it quite another thing, by adding thereunto, from his great reading, almost as much more matter as there was before, with many corrections, &c.—Lond. 1686. fol, whereunto is added a Geographical Index. An account of this book and of the authors first undertaking to write it, you may at large see in The universal historical Bibliotheque, &c. for the month of March 1686.—Lond. 1687. qu. cap. 12. p. 149, &c. written by Edm. Bohun Esq. Mr. Lloyd died at Newington before mention’d, on the 27. of Nov. in sixteen hundred and eighty,1680. and was buried in the Chancel of the Church there, leaving then behind him, among those that well knew him, the character of a harmless quiet man, and of an excellent Philologist.