Henry Lloyd Loring

Henry Lloyd Loring was the firstArchdeacon of Calcutta, serving from 1814 until his death on 4 September 1822.

The grandson of Joshua Loring, an 18th-century colonial American naval officer in British service (and a great great great great grandson to immigrant Thomas Loring) he was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, graduating BA in 1806 and becoming a Fellow a year later.

His brother, John Wentworth Loring, KCH, KCB was a Royal Navy officer of the early nineteenth century best known for his service in the Napoleonic Wars as a frigate commander; and his nephew, William Loring, KCB, the first Commander-in-Chief of the Australia Station.