Horace Lloyd QC (August 1828 – 30 March 1874) was an English barrister.

Background

He was the son of John Horatio Lloyd and Caroline Watson. He was educated at

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. He was called to the bar in the Middle Temple in 1852. He was appointed

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on 21 February 1868. In 1873 Lloyd attracted unwanted attention when he was found guilty of an assault on John Henry Champion Coles in Cookham,

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. He died on 30 March 1874.

Family

He married Adelaide Barbara Atkinson, daughter of John Atkinson, in St Peter’s Church, Dublin on 28 August 1855, and they had two children: *Otho Holland Lloyd * Constance Mary Lloyd who married

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After the death of her husband Adelaide Lloyd (Atkinson) began to abuse her daughter, who at the time of Horace’s death was only sixteen years of age. Otho, Constance’s brother remembered the suffering his sister faced. It ranged from ‘perpetual snubbing in private and public sarcasm, rudeness and savage scoldings’ to physical violence. This included, ‘threatening with the fire-irons or having one’s head thumped against the wall’. Inevitably, Constance could not have gone through this ‘without some mark on the character being left’, Otho later recalled.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Lloyd, Horace 1828 births 1874 deaths Alumni of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge 19th-century King's Counsel