Education
Robert Lloyd was educated at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating Bachelor of Arts in 1755 and Master of Arts
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in 1758. He was author of the popular poem The Actor (1760) and the comic opera The Capricious Lovers (1764), first performed at Drury Lane just a few weeks before his death. He was co-author, with George Colman, of Ode to Obscurity and Ode to Oblivion, both published in the early 1760s, and both satires on the works of the poets William Mason and Thomas Gray.
Membership
He was also co-editor of Street James"s Magazine (1762-1763), and member of the infamous Nonsense Club of Old Westminster men with Bonnell Thornton, George Colman, William Cowper and others
