Charles Harford LLOYD

Background

LLOYD, Charles Harford was born in 1849 in at Thornbury, Gloucestershire. Youngest son of late Edmund Lloyd, Solicitor.

Education

Studied at Thornbury Grammar School, Rossall School. Magdalen Hall (Hertford College), Oxford. Open Classical Scholarship.

2nd Class Mod.; 2nd Class Final Theol. Scholar; Master of Arts. Doctor of Music Oxfordshire.

Career

First President of Oxford University Musical Club. Organist of Gloucester Cathedral, 1876. Organist of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, 1882.

Conducted, while at Gloucester, the Three-Choir Festivals of 1877 and 1880. At Oxford, the Choral and Orchestral Societies. At Eton, the Windsor and Eton Choral and Orchestral Societies.

Has at various times been Examiner in Music in the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, and London. Member of Council Royal College of Music and Royal College of Organists. Musical publications: Hero and Leander, Song of Balder, Andromeda, Longbeards’ Saga, Song of Judgment, Alcestis, etc.

Anthems, Services, Organ Pieces, Trio for Pianoforte, Clarionet, and Bassoon, etc. Honourable Royal Academy of Music, and Precentor and Musical Instructor, Eton College, since 1892.

Membership

Fellow of the Royal College of Organists. Clubs: Savile, United University.

Interests

• Figure skating, cycling, boating, golf.

Connections

Father:

Edmund Lloyd