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Lloyd, Robert, 1733-1764
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1733-1764
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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.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.