Bartholomew Lloyd

Bartholomew Lloyd (5 February 1772 to 24 November 1837) was an Irish mathematician and academic who served as the 27th Provost of Trinity College Dublin from 1831 to 1837. He was born in New Ross, County Wexford, lost his father while still a boy and then the uncle who took him in, and entered Trinity College Dublin in 1787. He was elected a Scholar in 1790, graduated BA in 1792, obtained a junior fellowship in 1796 and later took his BD in 1805 and DD in 1808. His whole career was spent at Trinity College. As Erasmus Smith's Professor of Mathematics from 1813 he promoted significant curricular reforms, including the introduction of the teaching of calculus.