ROBERT LLOYD BIOGRAPHY
ROBERT LLOYD BIOGRAPHY from the Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John Cousin.
LLOYD, ROBERT (1733-1764). —Poet, ed. at Westminster and Camb., pub. The Actor (1760), a poem which had considerable popularity, some miscellaneous verses, and a comic opera, The Conscious Lovers (1764). He was a friend of Churchill, who showed him much kindness in his frequent misfortunes; and on hearing of C.'s death he took to bed, and soon d. , apparently of a broken heart.