Thomas Lloyd (priest)
Thomas Bucknall Lloyd (23 May 1824 - 25 February 1896) was Archdeacon of Salop from 1886 until his death.[1]
Lloyd was the maternal grandson of Samuel Butler, Bishop of Lichfield. He was born at Shrewsbury, eldest son of John Thomas Lloyd of The Stone House, Shrewsbury, and his wife Harriet, Butler's daughter.[2]
Lloyd was educated at Shrewsbury and St John's College, Cambridge, graduating with a B.A. in 1846 and M.A. in 1849.[3] While at Cambridge he was the Cox in the 1846 Boat Race; and was awarded a blue.
He was
He was chaplain to the 1st Shropshire Rifle Volunteers, first chairman of the Shrewsbury Schools Board, chairman of the governors of Shrewsbury School, vice-president of the Shrewsbury School of Science and Art, Chaplain to the
He married, on 21 August 1849, Sophia Elizabeth (died 1858), eldest daughter of the Reverend Percival Spearman Wilkinson of Mount Oswald, County Durham. By her he had one son and four daughters.[2]
The
Lloyd died aged 71 at Edgmond rectory, of pneumonia, in February 1896, and was buried on 29 February at the General Cemetery in Longden Road, Shrewsbury, after a funeral service at St Mary's Church in the same town.[6]
References
- ^ Deaths. The Times (London, England), Friday, Feb 28, 1896; pg. 1; Issue 34825
- ^ ISBN 2-940085-02-1.Under family history 'Lloyd (Baronet)'
- ^ Venn, John & Venn, John Archibald. Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900, Cambridge University Press Part II vol. iv p193
- ^ .thePeerage.com
- ^ Crockford's Clerical Directory, 1891. Crockford. p. 813.
- ^ a b "Death of Archdeacon Lloyd". Shrewsbury Chronicle. 28 February 1896. p. 6.
- ISBN 0-903802-30-9.Chapter 10: Cherry Orchard, the Growth of a Victorian Suburb.