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 treat with the Six Nations at Fort Stanwix; and in 1774 he was made Brigadier-General, and commanded the Virginia troops at Point Pleasant, gaining a victory over the most formidable Indian force that ever assembled in the Old Dominion. He was a member of the conventions of March and June 1775; and was made Colonel in the War of the Revolution. He drove Lord Dunmore from Gwynne's Island, and was on duty in the lower part of the State, when he contracted a fever of which he died, in Bedford County, Virginia, in 1780. Drake says: "His military abilities were highly valued by Washington; and his statue fills one of the pedestals around the Washington monument at Richmond. His brothers, all distinguished in the military annals of the State, were Samuel, Thomas, Charles, and William." 37*

Lloyd, Bartholomew, D.D., Provost of Trinity College, was born at New Ross 5th February 1772. He entered College as a pensioner in 1787; his talents and industry soon asserted themselves, and in 1790 he gained a scholarship. For some years he filled the office of college tutor. In 1796 he was elected Junior Fellow, and in 1813 was appointed Professor of Mathematics; in 1822 he took the chair of Natural Philosophy, and in 1831 was elevated to the provostship. Dr. Lloyd vigorously and successfully exerted himself to raise the status of Trinity College, especially in mathematics; he re-arranged the college terms, and initiated several improvements, such as the new squares to the college buildings. The Quarterly Review (No. 78) speaks highly of his well-known Treatise on Mechanical Philosophy; while "Dr. Whewell places Lloyd among that new generation of mathematicians in whose hands it is reasonable to suppose the analytical mechanics of light will be improved as much as the analytical mechanics of the solar system was by the successors of Newton." 40 Dr. Waller writes: "The merits and learning of this distinguished man have been commemorated by many eloquent eulogies, as the most devoted, the most enlightened, and the most energetic governor the University ever possessed. Above all, the University herself has shown her sense of her deep obligations to him by instituting mathematical exhibitions which bear his name." Dr. Lloyd was President of the British Association on its first visit to Ireland in 1835. He died 24th November 1837, 146 aged about 65. His masterly treatise on Analytic Geometry held a high place as a text-book for many years. 40 116(11) 146

Lodge, John, the distinguished archivist, was born in England early in the 18th century, and was educated at Cambridge University. In 1744 was published at Dublin a Report of the Trial in Ejectment of Campbell Craig, taken in shorthand by him. In 1751 "Mr. John Lodge, of Abbey-street," was appointed Deputy-Keeper of Bermingham Tower Records. Three years afterwards his Peerage of Ireland was published in 4 vols. 8vo. in Dublin. In 1759 he was appointed Deputy-Clerk and Keeper of the Rolls. In 1770 he published anonymously The Usage of Holding Parliaments in Ireland, and in 1772, also anonymously, a valuable collection of historical tracts entitled Desiderata Curiosa Hihernica, 2 vols. 8vo. Mr. Lodge died at Bath, 22nd February 1774. His wonderful collection of indexes remained in the possession of his family for nine years, until 1783, when they were deposited in the office of the Civil Department of the Chief-Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant, in return for a life pension of £100 a year to his widow, and £200 a year to his son, the Rev. William Lodge. A transcript of a portion of these manuscripts sold at Sir William Betham'a sale for £155. These documents were largely drawn upon by Mr. Lascelles [See Lascelles, Rowley] in his Liber Munerum Hibernioe. Mr. Lodge's first wife is reported to have been a Hamilton of the Abercorn family, his second, Edwarda Galland. He was a great expert in shorthand, and almost all his note-books are full of it. Dr. Reeves writes: "In the department of genealogy he was the most distinguished compiler that Ireland has produced. Archdall is to him what Harris is to Ware. His industry was unbounded, his appetite for compilation insatiable, and his accuracy such as stamps all that he did and all that he has left with unfailing reliability." Mervyn Archdall, in the preface to his edition of Lodge's Peerage of Ireland, published in 7 vols, in 1789, writes: "When I reflect on the performance which, though imperfectly, I have attempted to revise, then do I deplore, and I am sure my readers will accompany me, the death of my much valued friend the author. To the desire of improving his Peerage of Ireland, whilst in the various offices, as Deputy-Keeper of the Records in Bermingham Tower, Keeper of the Rolls in the High Court of Chancery, and Registrar of the Court of Prerogative, and to the necessary attendance on the duties of his employments, the public owe his loss." It is to be regretted that so little is known concerning the life of this unassuming man— one of the ablest and most pains- 292