Edward Lloyd (16 February 1815–8 April 1890) was a British publisher.
Born in Thornton Heath, Lloyd studied shorthand at the London Mechanics' Institution, then wrote a book on stenography. Before he was eighteen, he had opened shops in London to sell cheap books and valentines.[1]
From 1835, he began publishing cheap books, many being plagiarisations of Charles Dickens' work. In 1842 he moved into publishing periodicals, including Lloyd's Penny Weekly Miscellany, Lloyd's Penny Atlas and, most successfully, Lloyd's Illustrated London Newspaper [2] , which soon became Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper. This was enormously successful, and by 1872 was selling 500,000 copies an issue.[1]
Lloyd stopped publishing penny dreadfuls, and concentrated with promoting his newspaper as a respectable publication for the literate working class. He founded the Lloyd News, later known as The Sunday News, and also published the Daily Chronicle.[3]
He spent his weeks touring the country, looking for suitable advertising hoardings. He also set up his own printing works to publish the newspaper, supplied with esparto grass grown on 100,000 acres (400 km2) of land which he leased in Algeria.[1]
One of his printing works was in Sittingbourne, bought in 1863. [4] In 1912, with a workforce of 1,200 and output of 2,000 tonnes per week, the mill was one of the biggest in the world. [5]
In 1876, Lloyd purchased the Clerkenwell News, and transformed it into the Daily Chronicle, increasing circulation from 8,000 to 140,000.[1] He also installed a new paper making machine, the largest at the time, which is capable of producing 1,300 sq ft of paper per minute. Management of Sittingbourne Mill handed to his son, Frank Lloyd.[4]
In his spare time, Lloyd was active in Liberal Party politics and was a member of the Reform Club.[1]
He had three sons Arthur, Herbert and Frank Lloyd. Frank in 1890 took over the paper making business. The Sittingbourne Paper Mill becomes the largest in the world in 1910. In 1927 Frank died.[4] All the sons lived in Croydon.[6]
References [link]
- ^ a b c d e "Lloyd, Edward", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
- ^ https://newspapers.bl.uk/blcs/LloydsIllustratedNewspaper.htm
- ^ https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2528505
- ^ a b c "Paper Making along Milton Creek". miltoncreekmemories.co.uk. 2012. https://miltoncreekmemories.co.uk/paper/. Retrieved March 30, 2012.
- ^ https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/735736
- ^ https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2528505
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Edward Lloyd (tenor)
Edward Lloyd (7 March 1845 – 31 March 1927) was a British tenor singer who excelled in concert and oratorio performance, and was recognised as a legitimate successor of John Sims Reeves as the foremost tenor exponent of that genre during the last quarter of the nineteenth century.
Early training in choral tradition
Edward Lloyd was born in London, into a musical family. His father had, by invitation, assisted as a counter-tenor on 'Show Sundays' at Worthing when choral concerts were directed by the fourteen-year-old Sims Reeves. Young Lloyd began singing as a chorister at Westminster Abbey, and in 1866 became a member of both Trinity College and King's College chapels in the University of Cambridge. In 1869 he joined the choir of St Andrew's, Wells Street (under Barnby) and was engaged for the Chapel Royal in 1869–71. In 1871 he sang in the St Matthew Passion at the Gloucester Festival, and came prominently to public attention. He never sang in the theatre, possibly because he was short of stature (Charles Santley heard him described as 'a nice, plump little gentleman.'). In 1873 he made his first appearance at St James' Hall with the Royal Philharmonic Society. In the year of his retirement in 1900, he became the Gold Medallist of that Society.
Edward Lloyd (cricketer)
Edward Wynell Mayow Lloyd (19 March 1845 – 27 September 1928) was an English schoolmaster and a cricketer who played first-class cricket for Cambridge University and the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) between 1866 and 1868. He was born at Benares, India and died at Hartford Bridge, Hartley Wintney, Hampshire.
Lloyd was educated at Rugby School and at St John's College, Cambridge. As a cricketer, he was a middle-order right-handed batsman, and he was tried for matches for Cambridge University in both 1866 and 1868 – in one of the 1868 games, he played for the MCC against the university side – but he achieved little and was not awarded a Blue. He continued to play in minor matches after leaving Cambridge and appeared for both the Shropshire and Somerset teams in non-first-class matches, including one game for Somerset in 1879 that is the basis of disputes about the cricket career statistics of W. G. Grace (see Variations in first-class cricket statistics). In one of these minor matches featuring many of the players who were instrumental in the setting up of Somerset County Cricket Club, Lloyd made an unbeaten 100 for the Gentlemen of Somerset against the Gentlemen of Dorset.
