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Rickard William Lloyd

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Rickard William Lloyd
MRCS LRCPEd
Born(1859-03-17)17 March 1859
Died24 April 1933(1933-04-24) (aged 74)
Kensington, London, England
NationalityBritish
EducationBedford Modern School
Alma materSt Bartholomew's Hospital
OccupationConsulting Anaesthetist
Known forAnaesthetist
Author

Rickard William Lloyd MRCS LRCPEd (17 March 1859 – 24 April 1933) was a Consulting Anaesthetist and author.[1][2]

Early life

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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]

Career

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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]

Authorship

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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]

Family life

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

Selected works

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  • 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]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g Who Was Who, Published by A&C Black Limited, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920-2014; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, April 2014
  2. ^ "Lloyd, Rickard William, (17 March 1859–24 April 1933), Consulting Anæsthetist West London Hospital and St Mark's Hospital". WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO. 2007. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U212980. ISBN 978-0-19-954089-1.
  3. ^ a b "Dr. Rickard William Lloyd". Br Med J. 1 (3777): 940. 1933. doi:10.1136/bmj.1.3777.940-b. PMC 2368701. PMID 20777569.
  4. ^ "The Lancet". google.co.uk. 1903.
  5. ^ Burdett, Sir Henry C. (1913). "Burdett's Hospitals and Charities". google.co.uk.
  6. ^ The Cult of Old Paintings and the Romney Case [Huntington V. Lewis and Simmons, relating to the authenticity of a picture attributed to Romney] ... Illustrated with sixteen plates. OCLC 752471645.
  7. ^ "Genealogy, Family Trees & Family History Records at Ancestry.co.uk". ancestry.co.uk.
  8. ^ The cult of old paintings and the Romney case. OCLC 15510545.
  9. ^ Lloyd, R. W. (1903). "The Field of View of the Anaesthetist". Br Med J. 1 (2198): 401–402. doi:10.1136/bmj.1.2198.401-a. PMC 2512847.