A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Lloyd, William Hayman
LLOYD. (Lieut., 181.5. f-p., 24; h-p., 18.)
William Hayman Lloyd, born in July, 1792, is son of Wm. Lloyd, Esq., Surgeon, of London.
This officer entered the Navy, in Dec. 1805, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Caesar 80, Capt. Thos. Geo. Shortland, to which ship, bearing the successive flags of Rear-Admirals Sir Rich. John Strachan, Hon. Robt. Stopford, and Wm. Albany Otway, he continued attached as Midshipman and Master’s Mate until June, 1811. He was in consequence present, during the year 1809, at the destruction of three French frigates under the batteries of Sable d’Olonne, in the attack also on the enemy’s shipping in Aix Roads, and in the operations against Walcheren, where he served in an armed transport at the bombardment of Flushing, and commanded a gun-boat until its final evacuation by the British. On leaving the Caesar, Mr. Lloyd successively joined the Venerable and Tigre 74’s, Capts. Sir Home Popham and John Halliday; by the latter of whom, during Lord Wellington’s occupation of the lines of Torres Vedras, he was there intrusted with the command of a signal station for five months. The ship into which he was next received was the Pembroke 74, Capt. Jas. Brisbane, under whom, it appears, he beheld the fall of Genoa in April, 1814. In the ensuing summer he went on a timber-getting voyage to South America, as Second-Master of the Serafis store-ship, Master-Commander Wm. Lloyd; and on his return to England, in Aug. 1815, he found that he had been awarded a commission dated 6 Feb. in that year. From Dec. 1822 until the close of 1833, and from 13 May, 1841, until the summer of 1844, Lieut. Lloyd held appointments in the Coast Guard. He is now on half-pay.
He married the only daughter of Lieut. Jas. Nichols, formerly Resident Agent of Transports at Gibraltar, by whom he has issue two sons and five daughters.