George Christopher Lloyd

George Christopher Lloyd (1861-1942)

1922 Sec. Iron and Steel Inst.; s. of Rev. Charles A. Lloyd. Ed. Moravian School, Konigsfeld, Baden. Training: Robert Stephenson and Co., Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Extra 1st Class Engr.'s B.O.T. Cert. Career: Mar. Engr. with Lamport and Holt, Liverpool, and with Compania Trasatlantica de Vapores Correos, Barcelona; represented Mirrlees Watson Co., Ltd., in Germany, Austria and France-; Asst. Engr. with Jeremiah Head and Son, representing the Wellman Seaver Morgan Co., Cleveland, Ohio; Asst. Sec., Iron and Steel Inst., then Sec. Inst. E.E., now Sec. Iron and Steel Inst. Address: 28, Victoria Street, London, S.W.I.

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1942 Obituary.

GEORGE CHRISTOPHER LLOYD, formerly Secretary of The Iron and Steel Institute, died on July 10th, 1942, after a few days’ illness; he was in his eighty-second year. Born on April 30th, 1861, he was the second of four sons of the late Reverend Charles A. Lloyd, Rector of Rand, Lincolnshire. He received his early education from his father and then spent some years at the Moravian School at Konigsfeld in Baden. On his return to England he served a five-years’ apprenticeship with Messrs. Robert Stephenson & Co., of Newcastle-on-Tyne. Until 1891 he served as a marine engineer, obtaining a Board of Trade Extra First Class Engineer’s Certificate and sailing with Messrs. Lamport & Holt of Liverpool and with the Spanish Royal Imperial Steamship Co. “ Compania Transatlantica ” to Central and South America, the East Indies and China. The next few years were spent with various engineering companies in London and Glasgow. He represented the Mirrless Watson Co., Ltd,, in Austria, France and Germany, and later joined the staff of Messrs. Jeremiah Head & Son, now incorporated in the Wellman Smith-Owen Engineering Corporation, Ltd.

In 1900, when thirty-nine years of age, he joined the staff of The Iron and Steel Institute. This was to become his life’s work, for, with the exception of four years spent as Secretary of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, his connection with The Iron and Steel Institute was maintained for over forty years. He served as Secretary from 1909 to 1933 and was nominated Honorary Secretary on his retirement. His period of office as Secretary covered the prosperous pre-war years, the war of 1914-1918 and the difficult years that followed; under his wise guidance the Membership increased as the result of service rendered; the number and importance of papers published was maintained; the Library was greatly extended and the abstraction of British and Foreign literature was put on a proper basis; the Institute began to take a lively interest in co-operative research. It was, however, in maintaining and extending the foreign connections of the Institute that Mr. Lloyd’s best work was done, for he was fluent in several languages. Official visits were paid to Canada and the United States as well as to Austria, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, France, Luxemburg, Italy, Spain and Sweden, and on these, as on many other occasions, he represented the Institute with modest dignity and native charm.

Mr. Lloyd was a member of Council of the Chartered Institute of Secretaries, a Vice-President of the International Association for Testing Materials, and Joint Secretary of the Empire Mining and Metallurgical Congress held at Wembley in 1924. He published the Annual Statistical Reports of the Iron, Steel and Allied Trades Federation from 1915 onwards until the National Federation of Iron and Steel Manufacturers took over this duty, when he joined the Statistical Committee. He was also a Member of the Statistical Committee of the Imperial Mineral Resources Bureau. In 1918 he prepared the first edition of The Report on the Sources and Production of Iron and Other Metalliferous Ores Used in the Iron and Steel Industry of the United Kingdom at the request of the Advisory Council of Scientific and Industrial Research. Among honours conferred upon him were the Legion of Honour and the Swedish Order of the North Star.

By Mr. Lloyd’s death his many friends among the Members have been deprived of one whom they all, young and old alike, held in affectionate respect. Most of those now living will remember him as he was in later years, when his hair had turned white and his hearing was a little less erect—a courteous, dignified gentle-man, typical of an earlier generation; but in his prime he had been a tall and distinguished man with black hair and moustaches, a strikingly handsome and vigorous personality. He never looked his age, and to the very last retained his physical strength to a remarkable degree, while his intellect remained unimpaired. After his retirement he continued to take a kindly interest in the activities of the Institute, where he could often be seen taking a short rest in the Library during one of his visits to town. He always took the greatest interest in the welfare of his staff, who mourn his loss no less than his many other friends.

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1942 Obituary

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