WILLIAM WATKISS

See also:

• LLOYD, EDWARD (1845— )
• LLOYD, WILLIAM (1627–1717)
• WILLIAM WATKISS LLOYD (1813–1893)

LLOYD (1813–1893)  , English man of letters, was born at Homerton, Middlesex, on the 11th of March 1813 . He received his early education at Newcastle-under-Lyme grammar school, and at the age of fifteen entered a family business in London, with which he was connected for thirty-five years . He devoted his leisure to the study of art, architecture, archaeology, Shakespeare, classical and modern languages and literature . He died in London on the 22nd of December 1893 . The work by which he is best known is The Age of Pericles (1875), characterized by soundness of scholarship, great learning, and a thorough appreciation of the period with which it deals, but rendered unattractive by a difficult and at times obscure style . He wrote also: Xanthian Marbles (1845); Critical Essays upon Shakespeare's Plays (1875); Christianity in the Cartoons [of Raphael] (1865), which excited considerable attention from the manner in which theological questions were discussed; The History of Sicily to the Athenian War (1872); 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 in blank verse) . A number of manuscripts still remain unpublished, the most important of which have been bequeathed to the British Museum, amongst them being: A Further History of Greece; The Century of Michael Angelo; The Neo-Platonists . See Memoir by Sophia Beale prefixed to Lloyd's (posthumously published) Elijah Fenton: his Poetry and Friends (1894), containing a list of published and unpublished works .