A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Lloyd, George
LLOYD. (Captain, 1828. f-p., 13; h-p., 30.)
George Lloyd, born 13 Oct. 1793, is third son of John Lloyd, Esq. (Major in the 46th Regt., and Aide-de-Camp to Sir Henry Clinton during the American war, in which he received three wounds, the ultimate cause of his death), by Corbetta, daughter of the Rev. Geo. Holcombe, Archdeacon of Caermarthen, and Rector of Pwllcrochon, in Pembrokeshire. He is brother (with Major Wm. John Lloyd, R.A., who died at Brussels, 29 July, 1815, of a wound received at Waterloo) of the present John Wm. Lloyd, of Dan-yr-allt, co. Caermarthen, and South Park, Penshurst, Kent, and also of Lieut. Vaughan Lloyd, R.N. Capt. Lloyd, a distant relative of the late Admiral Wm. Lloyd, is nephew, by marriage, of the late Admiral Sir Herbert Sawyer, K.C.B.
This officer entered the Navy,. in the spring of 1804, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Princess Royal 98, Capts. Herbert Sawyer, Gardiner Henry Guion, and Robt. Carthew Reynolds, stationed in the Channel, where, until Feb. 1808, he continued to serve, as Midshipman, in the San Josef[1] and Hibernia, flag-ships of Sir Chas. Cotton and Earl St. Vincent, and Plover sloop, Capt. Philip Browne. While next employed, between the latter date and Jan. 1812, in the Volontaire 38, and Cambrian 40, each commanded by Capt. Chas. Bullen, we find him coming into frequent contact with the enemy both on board those frigates and in their boats, particularly at the defence of Tarragona, the destruction of the batteries at Palamos, the capture of 19 merchantmen at Cadaques and of others at Selva, and the cutting out of a French vessel from under the Medas Islands. After he had been for some time Master’s Mate of the Africa 64, bearing the flag in North America of Rear-Admiral Herbert Sawyer, and had for a short period acted as Lieutenant of the Rattler sloop, Capts. Alex. Gordon and John Thomson (under whom, it appears, he assisted at the capture of many vessels off New York and up the Chesapeake), Mr. Lloyd was confirmed to the latter vessel by commission dated 3 Nov. 1812. His next appointment was, 7 Dec. 1813, to the Trent 32, flag-ship on the Cork station of his friend Admiral Sawyer, who, on different occasions, allowed him to act as Commander of the Castilian 18, Pelican 18, and also of the Trent. On 1 Sept. 1814 Capt. Lloyd, then in command of the Castilian, fell in with the U.S. sloop Wasp of 22 guns, just as the latter had reduced H.M. brig Avon to the necessity of striking her colours. Having driven the American off the field, he immediately, in consequence of her repeated signals of distress, stood towards the British vessel, who, such had been her gallant resistance, went down almost before her crew could be removed.[2] Being officially promoted to the rank of Commander 8 Nov. 1815, Capt. Lloyd was in that capacity appointed, 22 Aug. 1827, to the Victor 18, fitting for the Jamaica station, where he made prize of Las Damas Argentinas, a notorious piratical schooner of 2 guns and 40 men, 28 of whom were hanged at St. Kitt’s. Since the receipt of his Post-commission, which bears date 26 Aug. 1828, he has been on half-pay. Agents – Goode and Lawrence.
- ↑ The San Josef formed part of the fleet: under Admiral Cornwallis when that gallant officer pursued the French into Brest 22 Aug. 1805.
- ↑ Mr. James, in his ‘Naval History,’ and Lieut. Marshall, in his ‘Naval Biography,’ erroneously represent the Castilian to have been commanded, on the occasion, by Capt. David Braimer.