Horace Lloyd QC (August 1828 – 30 March 1874) was an English barrister.
[1] In 1873 Lloyd attracted unwanted attention when he was found guilty of an assault on John Henry Champion Coles in Cookham, Berkshire.
[3] He married Adelaide Barbara Atkinson, daughter of John Atkinson, in St Peter’s Church, Dublin on 28 August 1855,[4] and they had two children: After the death of her husband Adelaide Lloyd (Atkinson) began to abuse her daughter, who at the time of Horace’s death was only sixteen years of age.
[5] It ranged from ‘perpetual snubbing in private and public sarcasm, rudeness and savage scoldings’ to physical violence.
[5] Inevitably, Constance could not have gone through this ‘without some mark on the character being left’, Otho later recalled.