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| Humphry Lloyd | |||
| Eldest son of the Rev Bartholomew Lloyd. | |||
| Date (from) | (Date to) | Event | |
| 4 December 1802 | Born. | ||
| 1819 | B.A. and Junior Fellow, Trinity College, Dublin. | ||
| 1827 | M.A. Trinity College, Dublin. | ||
| 18?? | Supervisor of Trinity College magnetic observatory (instruments devised by him and constructed under his superintendence). | ||
| 18?? | Member of British Association committee which resulted in programme for world wide observation of terrestrial magnetism. | ||
| 1831 | 1843 | Erasmus Smith's professor of natural and experimental philosophy (succeeding his father). | |
| 1833 | Experimental demonstration of conical refraction in biaxial crystals (as predicted by Sir William Rowan Hamilton). | ||
| 1840 | D.D. (Doctor of Divinity), Trinity College, Dublin. | ||
| July 1840 | Married Dorothea, only daughter of the Rev James Bulwer, rector of Hunworth-cum-Stody, Norfolk. | ||
| 1843 | Senior fellow, Trinity College, Dublin. | ||
| 1846 | 1851 | President of Royal Irish Academy. | |
| 1862 | R.I.A Cunningham gold medal. | ||
| 1862 | Vice-provost, T.C.D. | ||
| 1867 | Provost, T.C.D. | ||
| 17 January 1881 | Died (Dublin). | ||
| Literature: (DNB). | |||
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