He researched the acoustics of vowel sounds and articulation, which he deemed “minute phonetics”.
[1] He was born in Liverpool on 14 October 1846, into the well-established family business of Richard Lloyd & Brothers.
His proposers were John Gray McKendrick, Alexander Buchan, James Thomson Bottomley and Magnus Maclean.
[4] Lloyd worked as a customs official and port gauger after he left the university.
[3] Lloyd was reported missing on 29 August 1906 while attending an Esperanto Congress in Geneva, and his body was found in the Rhône at Seyssel in France, close to the Swiss border.