# Rodney Lloyd

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{{short description|Royal Navy officer}}
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|honorific_prefix = [Admiral](/source/Admiral_(Royal_Navy))
|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}}
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|allegiance= {{flagicon|United Kingdom}} [United Kingdom](/source/United_Kingdom)
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|branch= 23px [Royal Navy](/source/Royal_Navy)
|commands=[Jamaica station](/source/Jamaica_Station_(Royal_Navy))<br>[Malta Dockyard](/source/Malta_Dockyard)
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[Admiral](/source/Admiral) '''Rodney Maclaine Lloyd''' {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|CB}} (3 July 1841 – 16 May 1911) was a [Royal Navy](/source/Royal_Navy) officer who became Admiral Superintendent of [Malta Dockyard](/source/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](/source/Jamaica), with his [broad pennant](/source/broad_pennant) in the [troopship](/source/troopship) [HMS ''Urgent''](/source/HMS_Urgent_(1855)), in September 1889 and, having been promoted to [rear admiral](/source/rear_admiral) on 4 March 1894, he became Admiral Superintendent of [Malta Dockyard](/source/Malta_Dockyard) in February 1897.<ref>Clowes, The Royal Navy. Vol. VII. p. 8</ref> He was promoted to [vice admiral](/source/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](/source/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](/source/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>

==References==
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{{s-ttl|title=[Admiral Superintendent, Malta Dockyard](/source/Malta_Dockyard)|years=1897–1900}}
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Category:1841 births
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Category:Companions of the Order of the Bath
Category:Royal Navy admirals

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