William Watkiss Lloyd
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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.<ref>Template:Cite DNBSupp</ref>
Life
Lloyd was born at Homerton, then in Middlesex, and educated at Newcastle-under-Lyme High School. At the age of 15 he entered a family tobacco business in London, where he remained until his retirement in 1864. In 1868 he married Ellen Brooker Beale (died 1900). He died in London.Template:Sfn<ref>H. R. Tedder, "Lloyd, William Watkiss (1813–1893)", rev. Richard Smail, ODNB, Oxford University Press, 2004. Retrieved 26 September 2014, pay-walled.</ref>
Works
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. He also wrote:
- Xanthian Marbles (1845)
- Critical Essays upon Shakespeare's Plays (1875)
- Christianity in the Cartoons [of Raphael] (1865), which excited considerable attention from the way in which theological questions were discussed.
- The History of Sicily to the Athenian War with elucidations of the Sicilian odes of Pindar (1872)<ref>Online</ref>
- Panics and their Panaceas (1869)
- An edition of Much Ado about Nothing, "now first published in fully recovered metrical form" (1884) – the author held that all the plays were originally written throughout in blank verse.<ref name="EB1911">{{#if: |
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A number of his manuscripts remain unpublished. The most important of these were bequeathed to the British Museum, including:
- A Further History of Greece
- The Century of Michaelangelo
- The Neo-Platonists
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Lloyd's posthumously published Elijah Fenton: his Poetry and Friends (1894), which contains a list of his published and unpublished works.<ref name="EB1911"/><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>