Charles Lloyd (philanthropist)

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Charles Lloyd (1748–1828) was an English banker and philanthropist.

Portrait of Charles Lloyd Esqr (4671615)

Life[]

Born in Birmingham 22 August 1748, Lloyd was the second son of Sampson Lloyd, Quaker manufacturer and banker, a member of the Society of Friends, by his second wife, Rachel, daughter of Nehemiah Champion III of Bristol. He was educated at a school run by Ephraim Goodere, and then began work in his father's counting-house.[1][2]


After his father's death, Lloyd carried on the banking business with success. He was also a preacher and influential Quaker. He was a pioneer abolitionist working for the emancipation of the West Indian slaves, a supporter of the Bible Society and of non-sectarian education, and one of the founders of the Birmingham General Hospital.[1]

Lloyd died on 16 January 1828. His residence, Bingley House, near Birmingham, gave its name to Bingley Hall.[1]

Works[]

Lloyd published a number of translations:[1]

  • Translation of the Twenty-fourth Book of the Iliad of Homer, for private circulation in 1807 and 1810, Birmingham; in heroic couplets, after William Cowper, anonymous.
  • The first seven books of the Odyssey, 1810, Birmingham.
  • Metrical translations of Horace, between 1808 and 1812, in the Gentleman's Magazine.
  • The Epistles of Horace translated into English Verse, 1812, Birmingham, printed for private circulation.
  • Translation in heroic couplets of the Alcaic ode on the death of Samuel Parr by Charles Wordsworth, in Wordsworth's Annals of my Early Life, London, 1891.

Family[]

Lloyd married, on 13 May 1774, Mary, daughter of James Farmer of Birmingham; they had 15 children. His eldest son was Charles Lloyd (1775–1839) the poet; his eldest daughter, Priscilla, married Christopher Wordsworth.[1] Another daughter Anna Braithwaite was a Quaker preacher who toured Britain, Ireland and the United States several times.[3]

Notes[]

  1. ^ a b c d e Lee, Sidney, ed. (1893). "Lloyd, Charles (1748-1828)" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 33. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  2. ^ Fyfe, Christopher. "Lloyd, Charles". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/16820. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  3. ^ Edward H. Milligan, ‘Braithwaite, Joseph Bevan (1818–1905)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 9 April 2017
Attribution

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Lee, Sidney, ed. (1893). "Lloyd, Charles (1748-1828)". Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 33. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

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