Ernest Marsh Lloyd (September 1840 – 11 January 1922) was a British soldier and historian, a contributor to the Dictionary of National Biography and the Cambridge Modern History.
His early career was spent mainly on coastal defences work at Dover, the Isle of Portland, Hobart, Hong Kong, and Tynemouth.
In 1872 he was appointed as Instructor and Professor of Fortification at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, and remained there for ten years.
[1] Lloyd was elected as a vice-president of the Royal Historical Society and was vice-chairman of the Epsom Board of Guardians and a member of the Athenæum Club.
[1] In 1862, at St Mary's, Dover, Lloyd (then of Amwell House, Hoddesdon) married Rosa Harriette Davies, of Christchurch, Hampshire,[2] and they had four children.