Christopher Lloyd (historian)

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Christopher Lloyd (born September 2, 1906 in India , † March 31, 1986 ) was a British naval historian. He was a professor at the Royal Naval College in Greenwich (London) .

Lloyd attended Marlborough College and studied at Oxford University ( Lincoln College ). Then he was until 1934 at the Bishop's University in Sherbrooke and then at the Britannia Royal Naval College in Dartmouth and from 1945 at the one in Greenwich . First he was a lecturer and from 1962 a professor. In 1966 he retired.

He is known, among other things, for a book about the Royal Navy and the slave trade from 1949, wrote about social history and medical history of the Royal Navy, including The British Seaman (1968).

1970 to 1979 he was editor of The Marine´s Mirror of the Society for Nautical Research . From 1952 to 1962 he was secretary of the Navy Records Society .

Fonts

Naval history:

  • Captain Marryat and the old navy . London; New York: Longmans, Green and Co, 1939.
  • Pacific horizons: the exploration of the Pacific before Captain Cook . London: G. Allen and Unwin Ltd., 1946
  • Lord Cochrane : seaman-radical-liberator . London: Longmans, Green, 1947.
  • The Navy and the slave trade: the suppression of the African slave trade in the nineteenth century . London; New York: Longmans, Green, London, Cass, 1968 (first 1949)
  • Captain Cook . London: Faber and Faber, 1952
  • The nation and the navy; a history of naval life and policy . London: Cresset Press, 1954.
  • Sir Francis Drake . London: Faber and Faber, 1957, 1979
  • The capture of Quebec . London: Batsford, 1959
  • with PK Kemp: The brethren of the coast: the British and French buccaneers in the South Seas , London: Heinemann, 1960
  • with J. Douglas-Henry: Ships & seamen, from the Vikings to the present day: a history in text and pictures , London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1961.
  • St. Vincent & Camperdown . London: BT Batsford, 1963
  • with JLS Coulter Medicine and the Navy, 1200-1900 , Vol. 3, 4, Edinburgh; London: E. & S. Livingstone, 1961, 1963 (the first two volumes from 1957 are from the surgeon in the Royal Navy (Surgeon Commander) John Keevil)
  • William Dampier . London: Faber, 1966.
  • Pepys and his seamen: Samuel Pepys commemoration 31 May, 1967: in the Parish Church of St. Olave, Hart Street, City of London. 1967.
  • The British seaman 1200-1860: a social survey . London: Collins, 1968
  • with Bryan Ranft: Greenwich: palace, hospital, college , London: Royal Naval College, 1969.
  • Mr. Barrow of the Admiralty: a life of Sir John Barrow , 1764-1848 . London: Collins, 1970.
  • Sea fights under sail . London: Collins, 1970.
  • Nelson and sea power . London: English Universities Press, 1973.
  • The Nile Campaign: Nelson and Napoleon in Egypt . Newton Abbot: David and Charles; New York: Barnes and Noble, 1973.
  • The search for the Niger . London: Collins, 1973.
  • Atlas of maritime history . London: Hamlyn for Country Life, 1975.
  • English corsairs on the Barbary coast . London: Collins, 1981.
  • Contributions to The New Cambridge Modern History , Vol. 8, 9

As editor:

  • Publisher: The Englishman and the sea, an anthology , London: Allen & Unwin, 1946
  • Editor The voyages of Captain James Cook round the world ; selected from his journals and edited by Christopher Lloyd. London: Cresset Press, 1949.
  • Editor with RC Anderson: A memoir of James Trevenen , London: Navy Records Society, 1959.
  • Editor with WG Perrin: The Keith papers: selected from the papers of Admiral Viscount Keith , London, Navy Records Society, 1927–1955. (edited by Lloyd in 1955 Volume 2, 1796-1802, and Volume 3, 1803-1815, the British Admiralty Librarian WG Perrin began the project in 1926)
  • Charles Johnson Lives of the most notorious pirates , London: The Folio Society, 1962.
  • Editor: The health of seamen: selections from the works of Dr. James Lind , Sir Gilbert Blane and Dr. Thomas Trotter , London: Navy Records Society, 1965.

Otherwise:

  • Fanny Burney . London: Longmans, Green, 1936.
  • Publisher: The diary of Fanny Burney , London: R. Ingram, 1948
  • Publisher: The Greville memoirs, London: R. Ingram, 1948 (diary of the cricketer Charles Cavendish Fulke Greville (1794–1865))

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personal data
SURNAME Lloyd, Christopher
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British naval historian
DATE OF BIRTH September 2, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH India
DATE OF DEATH March 31, 1986