Arthur Thomas Lloyd (1917–2009) was a

local historian Local history is the study of history in a geographically local context, often concentrating on a relatively small local community. It incorporates cultural history, cultural and social history, social aspects of history. Local history is not mer ...

of the

New Forest The New Forest is one of the largest remaining tracts of unenclosed pasture land, heathland and forest in Southern England, covering southwest Hampshire and southeast Wiltshire. It was proclaimed a royal forest by William the Conqueror, featu ...

region of

Hampshire Hampshire (, ; abbreviated to Hants.) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South East England. It is bordered by Berkshire to the north, Surrey and West Sussex to the east, the Isle of Wight across the Solent to the south, ...

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, and a writer and teacher.

Life

Arthur Lloyd was a history teacher at

Ashley Ashley is a place name derived from the Old English words '' æsċ'' (“ash”) and '' lēah'' (“meadow”). It may refer to: People and fictional characters * Ashley (given name), a list of people and fictional characters with the given name ...

Secondary School in

New Milton New Milton is a market town and civil parish in the New Forest District, New Forest district, in southwest Hampshire, England. To the north is in the New Forest and to the south the coast at Barton-on-Sea. The town is equidistant between Lymi ...

from 1946 until his retirement from teaching in 1977. From the 1960s, he wrote articles in the ''Hampshire Magazine'' and in the publications of the Hampshire Field Club and Archaeological Society on a variety of local subjects. Of particular value was his analysis of the death of William II where he demonstrated that the traditional location for the King's death marked by the Rufus Stone near Minstead was the result of little more than a 17th-century story. Lloyd himself argued that William II had been killed somewhere near Beaulieu. His other works included accounts of the medieval salt-making industry in southwest

. From 1988, he was the honorific President of the

Lymington Lymington is a port town on the west bank of the Lymington River on the Solent, in the New Forest (district), New Forest district of Hampshire, England. The town faces Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, to which there is a Roll-on/roll-off, car ferry s ...

and District Historical Society. He was the first recipient of

's Citizen of the Year award in 2005. Mosaics in Station Road, New Milton, were dedicated to his memory in 2009.Newsletter, Summer 2009
, New Milton Town Council, retrieved 20 December 2011

Written works

Articles

*A. T. Lloyd, (1961) ''The Shakers of Hordle''. Hampshire Magazine, November 1961 *A. T. Lloyd, (1962) ''Where did Rufus Die?''. Hampshire Magazine, vol. 2, no. 11, September 1962 *A. T. Lloyd, (1965) ''A New Look at the New Forest''. Hampshire Magazine, March 1965 *A. T. Lloyd, (1967) ''The Salterns of the Lymington Area''. Proceedings of the Hampshire Field Club xxiv, 1967, 86-102 *A. T. Lloyd, (1971) ''The Meaning of Place Names''. Hampshire Magazine, 1971 *A. T. Lloyd, (1986) ''Mary Ann Girling and the Hordle Shakers''. Hampshire Magazine, September 1986 *A. T. Lloyd, (1988) "The salt industry of the Lymington area". Hampshire Field Club and Archaeological Society, New Forest Section, ''Report'' No. 26, 1988, pp. 12–14 *Arthur Lloyd, (1994), ''Milton and New Milton''. Hampshire Field Club and Archaeological Society Section Newsletters, New Series, 22 (21 on cover), Autumn 1994, pp 34–5

Books

*A. T. Lloyd, (1966) ''The Salterns of Lymington, Milford & Hordle''. Christchurch: Red House Museum *A. T. Lloyd (1992) ''Lymington Index Of Local History: Based Chiefly On 'King's Old Times Re-Visited and Bibliography' ''. Lymington: Buckland Trust *A. T. Lloyd, (1996) ''New Milton in Old Picture Postcards''. Europese Bibliotheek B.V. *Arthur T. Lloyd, J. E. S. Brookes, (1996), ''The History of New Milton and its Surrounding Area Centenary Edition''. *Arthur T. Lloyd, (1996) ''The Salterns of the Lymington Area: a history of coastal salt production in the Lymington area''. Lymington: St Barbe Museum *Arthur Lloyd, (2000) ''The Death of Rufus''. Lyndhurst: New Forest Ninth Centenary Trust. *Arthur Lloyd, (2001) ''South west Hampshire in Domesday 1066–1086 (The New Forest in Domesday Book 1086)''

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lloyd, Arthur 1917 births 2009 deaths Schoolteachers from Hampshire People from New Milton 20th-century English historians