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Adm. sizar at ST JOHN'S, July 2, 1800. Of Flintshire. [3rd, but only surviving, s. of the Rev. John (perhaps of Queen's College, Oxford, 1776), R. of Caerwys, Flint [and Martha, dau. of Francis Williams, a Commissioner of Inland Revenue]. B. Nov. 10, 1783, at Caerwys.] School, Ruthin. ' Matric. Michs. 1800; Scholar, 1803; B.A. 1804; M.A. 1807. Fellow, 1810-12. Ord. deacon (Lichfield and Coventry) 1806; priest, 1807. Head Master of the Grammar School, Ashby-de-la-Zouch, 1811-14. After a year, wherein he had given satisfaction to the Trustees, started to take boarders, and eventually filled the house with them, refusing to instruct the Free Scholars except as a matter of favour. After repeated remonstrances the Trustees appointed another Head Master. Lloyd appealed to the Court of Chancery, but apparently without success. P.C. of Wigginton, Staffs., and Wilnecote, Warws., 1818-60. Married, Feb. 10, 1812, Anne, dau. of the Rev. Francis Blick, V. of Tamworth. Died Dec. 12, 1860, at Wilnecote. M.I., Wilnecote, and a memorial window in north transept of the church at Tamworth. Father of Francis L. (1836). (St John's Coll. Adm., IV. 362; Crisp, Visitation of England and Wales; N. Carlisle, Endowed Grammar Schools of England and Wales, I. 750; Foster, Index Eccles.; G. Mag., 1861, I. 111.)