Rickard William Lloyd MRCS LRCPEd (17 March 1859 – 24 April 1933) was a Consulting

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and author.''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

Early life

Lloyd was born in

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on 17 March 1859, the son of Major Edward Lloyd and the grandson of Sir Robert Stanford. He was educated at

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and

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Career

In 1881 Lloyd served as a house-surgeon at the West London Hospital and

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, 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. On retiring in 1914 he was appointed Honorary Consulting Anaesthetist of the West London Hospital.

Authorship

Lloyd was a contributor to various numerous journals, in particular the

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. 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

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. In his foreword to the book

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'.

Family life

Lloyd was unmarried and died in

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on 24 April 1933. His obituary was published in the ''British Medical Journal''.

Selected works

* ''The Cult of Old Paintings and the Romney Case'', by Rickard W Lloyd, Published by Skeffington & Son Limited, 1917 * ''The Field View of the Anaesthetist''

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lloyd, Rickard William 1859 births 1933 deaths British anaesthetists Alumni of the Medical College of St Bartholomew's Hospital People educated at Bedford Modern School