Robert Lloyd (courtier)

Robert Lloyd (floruit 1600–1625) was a courtier and Member of Parliament.

He was Member of Parliament for Ludlow in 1614 and Minehead in 1621.[1]

Lloyd was a "sewer" or server in the household of Anne of Denmark, the wife of James VI and I, and later became an administrator, as the queen's "Admiral".[2]

He was knighted in 1616. In October 1617 the queen dismissed him from her household, for obtaining property by deception. Nathaniel Brent wrote that when Lloyd enjoyed the queen's favour he slandered his colleagues in the household to her.[3] Samuel Daniel lost his place as a groom of the queen's privy chamber for visiting him.[4]

Lloyd bought the gatehouse of the Savoy Hospital in 1611, and owned a house in the vicinity of the Savoy and Hog Lane in London, known as Lloyd's Court, which he sold to Isaac Bringhurst in 1618.[5]

  1. ^ 'LLOYD (FLOYD, FLUDD), Robert, of The Savoy, Westminster and Leighton Hall, nr. Welshpool, Mont.' The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1604-1629, ed. Andrew Thrush and John P. Ferris, 2010
  2. ^ 'LLOYD (FLOYD, FLUDD), Robert, of The Savoy, Westminster and Leighton Hall, nr. Welshpool, Mont.' The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1604-1629, ed. Andrew Thrush and John P. Ferris, 2010
  3. ^ HMC 75 Downshire, vol. 6 (London, 1995), p. 300: Mary Anne Everett Green, Calendar State Papers Domestic, James I (London, 1858), p. 522, TNA SP 14/96 f.36.
  4. ^ Thomas Birch & Robert Folkestone Williams, Court and Times of James the First, vol. 2 (London, 1849), p. 77.
  5. ^ Charles Lethbridge Kingsford, The Early History of Piccadilly, Leicester Square, Soho and their Neighbourhood (Cambridge, 1925), p. 34.