Sir John Edward Lloyd (who wrote as
J. E. Lloyd) (5 May 1861 – 20 June 1947), was a
Welsh historian, the author of the first serious history of the country's formative years,
A History of Wales from the Earliest Times to the Edwardian Conquest, 2 vols. London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1911; Second edition 1912; Third edition 1939.