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Rh  and New Orleans. On his return to England he brought with him the bodies of Generals Gibbs and Pakenham. He became a Rear-Admiral 22 July, 1830; and a Vice- Admiral 10 Jan. 1837.

In 1790 Vice- Admiral Lloyd was High Sheriff for Caernarvon; as he was, in 1820, for Anglesey. At the period of his death he was a Deputy-Lieutenant for the latter county, and a Magistrate for both. He married, first, in 1789, Elizabeth Charlotte, daughter of Henry Gibbs, Esq., of Portsmouth, Surveyor-General of Customs; and secondly, 28 Nov. 1839, Ellen, daughter of the late Thos. Roberts, Esq., Surgeon, of Garth View, Bangor, North Wales. His only daughter was the wife of the late Capt. Thos. Parry Jones Parry, R.N.

 LLOYD. 

, born 29 Jan. 1795, is brother of

This officer entered the Navy, 10 June, 1809, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 74, Capt. Robt. Waller Otway; previously to accompanying whom, in the summer of 1811, into the 74, he participated, as Midshipman, in a very gallant skirmish in which the British with a slender force beat back a powerful division of the French Toulon fleet; witnessed a disastrous yet most valorous attack made by Capt. Eras. Wm. Fane on the enemy’s shipping in the mole of Palamos; and contributed to the capture, 31 March, 1811, of Le Dromadaire store-ship, of 20 guns and 150 men. On leaving the, in which ship, commanded the greater part of the time by Capt. Thos. Baker, he had escorted convoy to the West Indies and back, Mr. Lloyd, in June, 1813, rejoined the Ajax, then again under the orders of Capt. Otway, with whom he served at the reduction, in the following Sept., of the town of St. Sebastian, and at the capture, 17 March, 1814, of L’Alcyon French corvette, of 16 guns and 120 men. After cruizing for ten months on the Irish station as Master’s Mate of the 38, Capt. Jas. Rich. Dacres, and for two more as Acting-Lieutenant of the 24, Capt. Rich. Spencer, he was confirmed in his present rank by commission dated 20 Sept. 1815. His last appointments were, in 1816-17, to the again, Capt. Robt. Wauchope, 10, Capt. John Theed, and  74, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Robt. Plampin – all on the St. Helena station, whence he returned in Sept. 1820.

Lieut. Lloyd married Augusta, daughter of John Adams, Esq., of Lydstep House, co. Pembroke.

 LLOYD. 

(a) entered the Navy, 1 May, 1797, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 74, Capt. John Knight, stationed in the North Sea; served as Midshipman, from Jan. 1798, until wrecked 4 Nov. 1800, in the  74, commanded in the Channel and Mediterranean by Capts. Joseph Ellison and Thos. Sotheby; and in Jan. 1801 joined the 74, Capts. John Sutton and Rich. Goodwin Keats. While under the latter officer we find him sharing in Sir Jas. Saumarez’ action in the Gut of Gibraltar 12 July, 1801, accompanying Lord Nelson to the West Indies and back in 1805 in pursuit of the combined squadrons of France and Spain, and on 6 Feb. 1806 enacting a part in the action off St. Domingo. Immediately after the latter event he returned to England as Acting-Lieutenant of the, Capt. Chas. Gill; and on 9 June in the same year he was officially promoted. His succeeding appointments were – 25 July, 1806, to the 64, Capts. Geo. Eyre, Ross Donnelly, and Edwin Henry Chamberlayne, in which ship he beheld the attack on Monte Video in Feb. 1807 – 28 April, 1808 (he had left the in the preceding Dec), and 7 Jan. 1809, to the  and  sloops, Capts. Geo. Barne Trollope and Thos. Rich. Toker, employed on the Baltic and North Sea stations – and lastly, 12 Sept. 1814, after 10 months of half-pay, to the, Capt. Hall, with whom he cruized in the Channel and on the American coast until his return home in Aug. 1815. He accepted his present rank 19 Aug. 1840.

Commander Lloyd is a Police-Magistrate at Port Elizabeth, Cape of Good Hope.

 LLOYD. 

(b) died 12 July, 1847, at Montreal, of typhus fever, contracted while ministering to the wants of the sick and destitute Irish immigrants.

This officer passed his examination in 1826; and for his conduct as Mate of the 74, Capt. John Acworth Ommanney, at the battle of Navarin, where he was wounded, was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 22 Oct. 1827. He remained thence-forward on half-pay.

 LLOYD. 

, born in July, 1792, is son of Wm. Lloyd, Esq., Surgeon, of London.

This officer entered the Navy, in Dec. 1805, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 80, Capt. Thos. Geo. Shortland, to which ship, bearing the successive flags of Rear-Admirals Sir Rich. John Strachan, Hon. Robt. Stopford, and Wm. Albany Otway, he continued attached as Midshipman and Master’s Mate until June, 1811. He was in consequence present, during the year 1809, at the destruction of three French frigates under the batteries of Sable d’Olonne, in the attack also on the enemy’s shipping in Aix Roads, and in the operations against Walcheren, where he served in an armed transport at the bombardment of Flushing, and commanded a gun-boat until its final evacuation by the British. On leaving the, Mr. Lloyd successively joined the and  74’s, Capts. Sir Home Popham and John Halliday; by the latter of whom, during Lord Wellington’s occupation of the lines of Torres Vedras, he was there intrusted with the command of a signal station for five months. The ship into which he was next received was the 74, Capt. Jas. Brisbane, under whom, it appears, he beheld the fall of Genoa in April, 1814. In the ensuing summer he went on a timber-getting voyage to South America, as Second-Master of the store-ship, Master-Commander Wm. Lloyd; and on his return to England, in Aug. 1815, he found that he had been awarded a commission dated 6 Feb. in that year. From Dec. 1822 until the close of 1833, and from 13 May, 1841, until the summer of 1844, Lieut. Lloyd held appointments in the Coast Guard. He is now on half-pay.

He married the only daughter of Lieut. Jas. Nichols, formerly Resident Agent of Transports at Gibraltar, by whom he has issue two sons and five daughters.

 LOCH. 

, born in April, 1788, is youngest son of Geo. Loch, Esq., of Drylaw, co. Edinburgh, by Mary, daughter of John Adam, Esq., of Blair, co. Kinross, sister of the Right Hon. Wm. Adam, Lord Chief Commissioner of the Scotch Jury Court, and aunt of the present, Governor of Greenwich Hospital. Capt. Loch (whose grandmother was herself the grand-daughter of David, fourth Earl of Buchan) is uncle of, and of

This officer entered the Navy, 1 Sept. 1799, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 100, Capt. Andrew Todd, bearing the flag of Lord Keith; and on 17 of the following March narrowly escaped involvement in the destruction of that ship, being on board when she took fire in Leghorn Roads. After he had further served with Lord Keith, as Midshipman, in the and  74’s, and  80, and had assisted in the  at the blockade of Genoa, he removed to the  14, Capt. John Stewart.