Rickard William Lloyd

Lloyd was born in Gibraltar[3] on 17 March 1859, the son of Major Edward Lloyd and the grandson of Sir Robert Stanford.[1] He was educated at Bedford Modern School and St Bartholomew's Hospital, London.[1]

In 1881 Lloyd served as a house-surgeon at the West London Hospital and St Mark's Hospital, subsequently serving at both hospitals for over thirty years. He was also House-Surgeon to St Peter's Hospital for Stone, an Anaesthetist at Guy's Dental School and a former President of the West London Medico-Chirurgical Society.[1][4][5] On retiring in 1914 he was appointed Honorary Consulting Anaesthetist of the West London Hospital.[1]

Lloyd was a contributor to various numerous journals, in particular the British Medical Journal.[1] 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 W 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'.[6]

Lloyd was unmarried and died in Kensington, London on 24 April 1933.[1][7] His obituary was published in the British Medical Journal.[3]

• The Cult of Old Paintings and the Romney Case, by Rickard W Lloyd, Published by Skeffington & Son Limited, 1917[8]
• The Field View of the Anaesthetist[9]