[2] Lloyd was educated at Shrewsbury and St John's College, Cambridge, graduating with a B.A.
He was ordained deacon by the Bishop of Lichfield in 1848 and priest in 1849 and began his career with a curacy at Lilleshall, Shropshire.
[5] He was chaplain to the 1st Shropshire Rifle Volunteers, first chairman of the Shrewsbury Schools Board, chairman of the governors of Shrewsbury School, vice-president of the Shrewsbury School of Science and Art, Chaplain to the Salop Infirmary, member of the council of Lichfield Theological College, and vice-president of the Church Mission for the Deaf and Dumb.
[6] He married, on 21 August 1849, Sophia Elizabeth (died 1858), eldest daughter of the Reverend Percival Spearman Wilkinson of Mount Oswald, County Durham.
[7] Lloyd died aged 71 at Edgmond rectory, of pneumonia, in February 1896, and was buried on 29 February at the General Cemetery in Longden Road, Shrewsbury, after a funeral service at St Mary's Church in the same town.