Arthur Lloyd (10 April 1852 – 27 October 1911) was a minister of the Church of England, fellow and Dean of Peterhouse, Cambridge, academic, translator, and biographer.

He was educated at Brewood Grammar School, Staffordshire, St John's College and Peterhouse, Cambridge where he obtained a First Class degree in Classics in 1874.

[1] Lloyd was consecrated as a deacon in 1875 and as a priest in 1876 in the Church of England by William Jacobson, the Bishop of Chester.

Immediately prior to setting out for Japan he served jointly as the rector of Norton parish and as vicar of Hunstanton, Norfolk.

[2] Much of Lloyd's early studies of Japanese Buddhism were published in the Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan.