Name William Lloyd | Role Writer | |
Died December 22, 1893, London, United Kingdom Books The History of Sicily to the Athenian War: With Elucidations of the Sicilian Odes of Pindar | ||
William Watkiss Lloyd (11 March 1813 – 22 December 1893), was an English writer with an interest in fine art, architecture, archaeology, Shakespeare, and classical and modern languages and literature.
Life
Lloyd was born at Homerton, then in Middlesex, and educated at Newcastle-under-Lyme High School. At the age of 15 he entered a family tobacco business in London, where he remained until his retirement in 1864. In 1868 he married Ellen Brooker Beale (d. 1900). He died in London.
The work for which he is best known is The Age of Pericles (1875), which is notable for its scholarship and appreciation of its period, but hampered by a difficult and at times obscure style. He wrote also:
A number of manuscripts remain unpublished, the most important of which have been bequeathed to the British Museum, including:
These are discussed in "Memoir" by Sophia Beale, prefixed to Lloyd's posthumously published Elijah Fenton: his Poetry and Friends (1894), which contains a list of published and unpublished works.