Background
Lloyd was born in Gibraltar on 17 March 1859, the son of Major Edward Lloyd and the grandson of Sir Robert Stanford.
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Rickard William Lloyd
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He was educated at Bedford Modern School and Street Bartholomew"s Hospital, London.
Career
In 1881 Lloyd served as a house-surgeon at the West London Hospital and Saint Mark"s Hospital, subsequently serving at both hospitals for over thirty years. He was also House-Surgeon to Street Peter"s Hospital for Stone, an Anaesthetist at Guy"s Dental School and a former President of the West London Medico-Chirurgical Society. On retiring in 1914 he was appointed Honorary Consulting Anaesthetist of the West London Hospital.
Lloyd was a contributor to various numerous journals, in particular the British Medical Journal.
He also took a particular interest in old paintings and was the author of "The Cult of Old Paintings and the Romney Case", which included a foreword by Sir Edward Poynter. In his foreword to the book Sir Edward Poynter says "Rickard West Lloyd has set forth in an amusing and interesting way the difficulties that beset the cult of old paintings, to say nothing of the snares".
