Montague Loyd 1683/4-1723

Montague LOYD or LLOYD 1683/4-1723

Loyd's bookplate (British Museum Franks Collection *231)

Biographical Note

Son of John Loyd, of London. BA Trinity College, Cambridge 1703, fellow 1705, MA 1706, BD 1713, DD 1717. Rector of Barnwell, Northamptonshire 1714.

Books

Loyd used an engraved armorial bookplate, dated 1706, Franks 18492/*231 (reworked); the extent and disposition of his library is not known. The administration of his estate was registered in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury in 1723.

Sources

• Gambier Howe, E. R. J. Franks bequest: catalogue of British and American book plates bequeathed to the ... British Museum. London, 1903.
• Venn, J. and J. A., Alumni Cantabrigienses, Cambridge, 1922.
• Administration document of Loyd's estate, The National Archives PROB 3/22/56.