{{short description|Royal Navy officer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2022}} {{Infobox military person |honorific_prefix = Admiral |name = Rodney Lloyd |honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|CB}} |birth_date=3 July 1841 |death_date={{death-date and age|16 May 1911|3 July 1841}} |birth_place= |death_place= |image= |caption= |nickname= |allegiance= {{flagicon|United Kingdom}} United Kingdom |service_years= |rank= Admiral |branch= 23px Royal Navy |commands=Jamaica station<br>Malta Dockyard |unit= |battles= |awards=Companion of the Order of the Bath |other_work= }} Admiral '''Rodney Maclaine Lloyd''' {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|CB}} (3 July 1841 – 16 May 1911) was a Royal Navy officer who became Admiral Superintendent of Malta Dockyard.
He was the third son, and fifth child, of Edmund and Catherine Elizabeth Lloyd who were living at Fairfield House in Castle Street, Thornbury.<ref>{{Cite web|date=18 September 2020|title=Descendants of William Harford|url=http://www.pennyghael.org.uk/Harford.pdf}}</ref>
==Naval career== Lloyd became Commodore in Charge at Jamaica, with his broad pennant in the troopship HMS ''Urgent'', in September 1889 and, having been promoted to rear admiral on 4 March 1894, he became Admiral Superintendent of Malta Dockyard in February 1897.<ref>Clowes, The Royal Navy. Vol. VII. p. 8</ref> He was promoted to vice admiral on 10 August 1900, and retired at his own request on 1 September 1902,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=27471|page=5752|date=5 September 1902}}</ref> though was promoted to full admiral on the retired list on 16 June 1904.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=27692|page=4259|date=5 July 1904}}</ref> Lloyd sometimes sat as a nautical assessor with the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.<ref>[https://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKPC/1907/1907_11.html ''The Ship "Albano" and her freight v The Allan Line Steamship Company Limited'', [1907<nowiki>]</nowiki> UKPC 11.]</ref>
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Lloyd, Rodney}} Category:1841 births Category:1911 deaths Category:Companions of the Order of the Bath Category:Royal Navy admirals