Christopher Lloyd (naval historian)

Christopher Lloyd ( born September 2, 1906 in India; † 31 March 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 the University of Oxford ( Lincoln College). After that, he was until 1934 at Bishop's University in Sherbrooke, and then at the Britannia Royal Naval College at Dartmouth, and from 1945 at the Greenwich. At first he was a lecturer and in 1962 professor. In 1966 he became Professor Emeritus.

He is well known for a book on the Royal Navy and the slave trade in 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 Navy 's Mirror of the Society for Nautical Research. 1952 to 1962 he was secretary of the Navy Records Society.

Writings

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: B.T. Batsford, 1963
  • JLS Coulter Medicine and the Navy, 1200-1900, Volume 3, 4, Edinburgh; London: E. & S. Livingstone, 1961, 1963 ( the first two volumes from 1957 by the surgeon in the Royal Navy ( Surgeon Commander) John Keevil )
  • William Dampier. London: Faber, 1966.
  • Pepys and his seamen: Samuel Pepys commemoration May 31, 1967 in the Parish Church of St. Olave, Hart Street, City of London. In 1967.
  • The British seaman 1200-1860: a social survey. London: Collins, 1968
  • 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.
  • Reviews of The New Cambridge Modern History, Volume 8, 9

As the editor:

  • Publisher: The Englishman and the sea, an anthology, London: Allen & Unwin, 1946
  • Publisher The voyages of Captain James Cook round the world; selected from his journals and edited by Christopher Lloyd. London: Cresset Press, 1949.
  • Published by RC Anderson: A memoir of James Trevenen, London: Navy Records Society, 1959.
  • Publisher with WG Perrin: The Keith papers: selected from the papers of Admiral Viscount Keith, London, Navy Records Society, 1927-1955. ( Lloyd published in 1955 Volume 2, 1796-1802, and Volume 3, 1803-1815, the librarian of the British Admiralty WG Perrin began the project in 1926 )
  • Editor Charles Johnson Lives of the most notorious pirates, London: The Folio Society, 1962.
  • Publisher: 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 Charles Cavendish Fulke Greville cricketer ( 1794-1865 ) )
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