Item VIII/iv/31 - Shakespeare; an Epistle to Mr. Garrick with an Ode to Genius

LLOYD, ROBERT, son of Pierson Lloyd (qv); bapt. St. John’s, Smith Square, Westminster 17 May 1733 (IGI); adm. (aged 7) Apr 1740 (Lloyd's); KS 1746; Capt. of the School 1750; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1751, adm. pens. 5 Jun 1751, scholar 24 Apr 1752; BA 1755; MA 1758; contributed to the periodical The Connoisseur, of which Bonnell Thornton (qv) and George Colman (qv) were joint editors; Usher at the School c. 1758; joined Charles Churchill (qv) in a career of reckless dissipation; author, The Actor, 1760; supervised the poetical department of the periodical The Library, 1761-2; a collection of his own poems was published in 1762; edited St. James’s Magazine 1762-3; arrested for debt and confined in the Fleet Prison; his comic opera, The Capricious Lovers, was produced at Drury Lane 28 Nov 1764; his Poetical Works were edited by Dr. Kendrick 1774 (see vol. i, 151-3, and vol. ii, 176-82, for his Prologues and other school verses); described by William Cowper (qv) in his Epistle to Robert Lloyd, Esq., as “… born sole heir and single/ Of dear Mat. Prior’s easy jingle”; d. in the Fleet Prison 15 Dec 1764. DNB.