George Lloyd (archaeologist)
| George Lloyd | |
|---|---|
| Reverend | |
| Church |
1861 Thurstonland Dissenters' chapel 1860s Trimdon St Paul 1860s Church Gresley St George & St Mary 1871 Cramlington St Nicholas |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | 1861 or 1862 (deacon) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1820 Coleshill, Warwickshire |
| Died | 21 January 1885 (aged 64–65) Longbenton, North Tyneside, England |
| Buried | Cramlington, Northumberland, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Spouse | Sarah Sharkey Lloyd |
| Children | George William Lloyd (b. 1860) |
George Lloyd (1820 – 21 January 1885) was an English Anglican curate and archaeologist. He was the leading founding member of the Huddersfield Archaeological and Topographical Association, which became the Yorkshire Archaeological Society, and is now the Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society. The society was founded in 1863 for the purpose of funding and organising excavations at Slack Roman fort. The excavations were initially surpervised and documented by Lloyd. In the 1860s and 1870s he was curate of Thurstonland in West Yorkshire, Trimdon in County Durham, Church Gresley in South Derbyshire and Cramlington in Northumberland. He was an outspoken man who once received an assassination threat, and this character trait may possibly explain why he was never ordained as a priest.
George Lloyd was born in Coleshill, Warwickshire, in 1820. His whereabouts during his first forty years are unknown, but he may have spent some time in Ireland, since he edited a magazine in Belfast and married an Irish woman. His wife Sarah Sharkey Lloyd was born in Blackrock, Dublin in 1816 or 1822. She died in Blyth, Northumberland on 21 November 1885, aged 69 years. They had a son, George William Lloyd, who was born in London, Middlesex 1860. George William may have died in 1894 in Camberwell. By the beginning of 1885 Lloyd and his wife were living at Trimdon. He died on 20 January 1885 at Longbenton, aged 65 years and was buried at Cramlington.
In 1863 Lloyd took a leading part in founding Huddersfield Archaeological and Topographical Association. His efforts were supported by the Earl of Dartmouth who later funded the building of the Church of St Thomas, Thurstonland, and by Sir J.W. Ramsden. The association was founded to organise renewed excavations in response to the large number of ancient relics found in the neighbourhood of Slack Roman fort. The site, then known as Cambodunum, was first discovered in 1824. By May 1865 Lloyd was honorary secretary of the society, and was appealing in the press for excavation funds. On Saturday 3 June the society held its first formal meeting in which Lloyd was able to report some funding for excavation, and in which papers were read, describing in detail findings at the Slack site. By November of that year he was supervising excavations at Slack Roman fort. A Roman villa, a bath house with hypocaust, walls 3 feet (0.91 m) thick, a red tiled floor, pillars, silver coins of Vespasian and Nerva, and a gold ring were found. The original notes from the 1865–1866 excavation are lost. When he left the association, the Halifax Guardian said, "It would be difficult to find his equal as a disinterested, unprejudiced supervisor in these interesting excavations" which had been "already so signally successful." He resigned his membership on 10 September 1866 to take up a curacy in County Durham.
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