William Watkiss Lloyd (11 March 1813 – 22 December 1893) was an English writer with wide interests.
These included fine art, architecture, archaeology, Shakespeare, and classical and modern languages and literature.
[1] Lloyd was born at Homerton, then in Middlesex, and educated at Newcastle-under-Lyme High School.
[2][3] The work for which Lloyd is best known is The Age of Pericles (1875), which is notable for its scholarship and appreciation of its period, but hampered by a difficult and at times obscure style.
The most important of these were bequeathed to the British Museum, including: These are discussed in a "Memoir" by Sophia Beale, prefixed to Lloyd's posthumously published Elijah Fenton: his Poetry and Friends (1894), which contains a list of his published and unpublished works.