LLOYD

lloyd, william watkiss (1813-1893), english man of letters, was born at homerton, middlesex, on the 11th of march 1813. he received his early education at newcastle-under-lyme grammar school, and at the age of fifteen entered a family business in london, with which he was connected for thirty-five years. he devoted his leisure to the study of art, architecture, archaeology, shakespeare, classical and modern languages and literature. he died in london on the 22nd of december 1893. the work by which he is best known is _the age of pericles_ (1875), characterized by soundness of scholarship, great learning, and a thorough appreciation of the period with which it deals, but rendered unattractive by a difficult and at times obscure style. he wrote also: _xanthian marbles_ (1845); _critical essays upon shakespeare's plays_ (1875); _christianity in the cartoons_ [of raphael] (1865), which excited considerable attention from the manner in which theological questions were discussed; _the history of sicily to the athenian war_ (1872); _panics and their panaceas_ (1869); an edition of _much ado about nothing_, "now first published in fully recovered metrical form" (1884; the author held that all the plays were originally written in blank verse). a number of manuscripts still remain unpublished, the most important of which have been bequeathed to the british museum, amongst them being: _a further history of greece_; _the century of michael angelo_; _the neo-platonists_. see memoir by sophia beale prefixed to lloyd's (posthumously published) _elijah fenton: his poetry and friends_ (1894), containing a list of published and unpublished works.