David Lloyd (Royal Navy officer)
David Lloyd | |
|---|---|
| Died | 1714? |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation | Royal Navy captain |
David Lloyd (died 1714?) was a British Royal Navy captain and Jacobite agent.
Biography
Lloyd was in 1672 appointed lieutenant of the Henry. In 1677 he was promoted to be captain of the Mermaid, and during the next three years commanded the Reserve, Dover, and Crown in the Mediterranean. In May 1687 he was appointed to the Sedgemoor. At the time of the revolution he commanded one of the ships under
battle of Barfleur
, and afterwards with the Duke of Marlborough. Both in 1690 and in 1692 he was proclaimed a traitor, and orders were issued for his apprehension. But then and afterwards he escaped the threatened dangers and continued to act as a go-between from James to his partisans in England. After the death of James II he appears to have retired into private life, but continued to reside in France. He is said to have returned to England in 1714. He seems to have died suddenly in 1716. He is described as a man of honest purpose, possessed of a fund of quaint though rough humour.
References
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Laughton, John Knox (1893). "Lloyd, David (d.1714?)". In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 33. London: Smith, Elder & Co.