Arthur Lloyd (bishop)
{{Short description|British Anglican bishop}}
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{{Infobox Christian leader
| honorific_prefix = The Right Reverend
| name = Arthur Lloyd
| title = Bishop of Newcastle
| image = Arthur Thomas Lloyd Bishop of Newcastle.jpg
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| caption = Photograph of Lloyd as Bishop of Newcastle
| church = Church of England
| diocese = Diocese of Newcastle
| term = 1903–1907
| predecessor = Edgar Jacob
| successor = Norman Straton
| other_post = Vicar of Newcastle Cathedral {{nowrap|(1882–1894)}}
Bishop of Thetford {{nowrap|(1894–1903)}}
| ordination = 1869 (priest)
| ordained_by = Samuel Wilberforce
| consecration = 1894
| consecrated_by = Edward White Benson
| birth_date = {{birth date|df=y|1844|12|13}}
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| death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|1907|5|29|1844|12|13}}
| death_place = South Kensington, County of London, {{nowrap|United Kingdom}}
| buried = Benwell, Northumberland
| nationality = British
| religion = Anglican
| residence = Benwell Towers (bishop's palace; at death)
| parents = Henry & Georgiana Etough
| spouse = none
| children =
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| alma_mater = St Edmund Hall, Oxford
}}
Arthur Thomas Lloyd (13 December 1844{{snd}}29 May 1907)Death of the Bishop Of Newcastle The Times Thursday, 30 May 1907; pg. 8; Issue 38346; col B was an Anglican bishop. He served as Bishop of Thetford (suffragan bishop to the Bishop of Norwich, 1894–1903) and as Bishop of Newcastle (1903–1907).
Family and education
The son of Henry W. Lloyd, vicar of Cholsey,{{Church Times | title = The Bishop of Newcastle | archive = 1903_02_27_270 | issue = 2092 | date = 27 February 1903 | page = 270 | accessed = 10 April 2017 }} and Georgiana Etough,{{Who's Who | title=Lloyd, Arthur Thomas | id = U188263 | type = was | volume = 1920–2016 | edition = April 2014 online | access-date = 10 April 2017 }} and a brother to F. C. Lloyd (who became vicar of Cholsey, 1890–1895,{{Church Times | title = Church news: preferments and appointments | archive = 1890_02_28_210 | issue = 1414 | date = 28 February 1890 | page = 210 | accessed = 10 April 2017 }}{{Church Times | title = Church news: preferments and appointments | archive = 1895_10_04_338 | issue = 1706 | date = 4 October 1895 | page = 338 | accessed = 10 April 2017 }} and later vicar of Kew, Surrey), Arthur was educated at Magdalen School and St Edmund Hall, Oxford.
Priest
Ordained a priest by Samuel Wilberforce, Bishop of Oxford, on 21 February 1869 at St Luke's Maidenhead,Ordinations – Oxford The Times Monday, 22 February 1869; pg. 9; Issue 26367; col F{{Church Times | title = Church news: ordinations | archive = 1869_02_26_085 | issue = 317 | date = 26 February 1869 | page = 85 | accessed = 10 April 2017 }} his first post was as his father's curate at Cholsey (1868–1873), his second was curate-in-charge of Watlington, Oxfordshire (1873–1876), from where he moved to become vicar of Aylesbury"The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory" London, John Phillips, 1900 (1876–1882). After some time as the first vicar of Newcastle upon Tyne after the parish church became Newcastle Cathedral (he was also an honorary canon and rural dean), he was appointed to be vicar of North Creake and Archdeacon of Lynn, becoming also the first modernIn the modern era > Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975–76. London: Oxford University Press, 1976. {{ISBN|0-19-200008-X}} Bishop of Thetford (suffragan to the Bishop of NorwichThe Times, Friday, 16 November 1894; pg. 8; Issue 34423; col E Ecclesiastical intelligence) in 1894.
Bishop
He was ordained and consecrated a bishop by Edward White Benson, Archbishop of Canterbury, at Westminster Abbey, on St Luke's Day (18 October) 1894.{{Church Times | title = Church news | archive = 1894_10_19_1094 | issue = 1656 | date = 19 October 1894 | page = 1094 | accessed = 10 April 2017 }} In 1903 he was translated (he was nominated on 11 May and installed on 4 June) to become the third Bishop of Newcastle and died in post four years later.
Death and legacy
A bachelor who had "always lived" with his sisters, Lloyd died on 29 May 1907 at his sister's house in South Kensington, London.{{Church Times | title = Death of The Bishop of Newcastle | archive = 1907_05_31_706 | issue = 2314 | date = 31 May 1907 | page = 706 | accessed = 10 April 2017 }} He was buried "as a commoner" on 3 June at St James's parish church, Benwell, where he had lived at Benwell Towers, the bishop's palace; there is, however, an alabaster memorial to him at Newcastle Cathedral.[https://www.victorianweb.org/sculpture/pomeroy/64.html Victorian Web — Lloyd's effigy] (Accessed 10 April 2017) The cathedral memorial was unveiled at a large service on 29 July 1919.{{Church Times | title = The late bishop Lloyd | archive = 1909_08_06_162 | issue = 2428 | date = 6 August 1909 | page = 162 | accessed = 10 April 2017 }} On 11 March 2012, Martin Wharton, Bishop of Newcastle, rededicated Lloyd's grave at Benwell, following its restoration after serious neglect.[http://www.newcastle.anglican.org/news-and-events/news-article.aspx?id=256 Diocese of Newcastle — Bishop of Newcastle rededicates predecessor’s restored grave]{{Dead link|date=June 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} (Accessed 10 April 2017)
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Category:People educated at Magdalen College School, Oxford