Background
Lloyd was born at Devonport on 20 December 1842. He was the son of Francis Brown Lloyd, a west country doctor, who afterwards took orders, by his wife Margaret, daughter of George Christian.
Lloyd was born at Devonport on 20 December 1842. He was the son of Francis Brown Lloyd, a west country doctor, who afterwards took orders, by his wife Margaret, daughter of George Christian.
He was educated at Bristol and Stratford-on-Avon grammar schools, and proceeded to Guy"s Hospital, where he became Member Royal College of Surgeons and Licentiate of the Society of Apothecaries in 1866.
He held the position of house-surgeon in the Peterborough Infirmary for three years, and in 1870 he bought a practice at Saint Albans. Lloyd was a successful physician and a diligent antiquary. He studied the history of the abbey of Saint Albans, and was consulted by Mr.
Henry Hucks Gibbs as to the restoration of the screen.
He published "An Account of the Altars, Monuments, and Tombs in Saint Albans Abbey," Saint Albans, 1873, 4to, a translation with notes from the "Annales" of John of Amundesham. He also wrote many papers on archæological subjects, of which one on "The Shrines of Saint Albans and Saint Amphibalus" (1872), and one on "The Paintings on the Choir Ceiling of Saint Albans Abbey" (1876), were published separately.
He also contributed to the "Lancet" and "British Medical Journal.".