Lloyd, James, Dr.

Biography

James Lloyd was born in Oyster Bay, Long Island (NY), the youngest of ten children of Henry Lloyd and Rebecca Nelson Lloyd. James studied medicine in Boston and New England, and apprenticed with prominent obstetricians. In 1752 he began a surgery practice in Boston and became widely respected for his skill and for the introduction of new surgical methods to New England. Dr. James Lloyd was the first physician to practice mid-wifery in America, leading the way for a more scientific basis to obstetrics. Dr. Lloyd married the former Sarah Corwin [d. 1797], with whom he had a son, James, and a daughter Sarah, later Mrs. Leonard Bassal Borland. James, the younger, born in 1769, later became a United States Senator from Massachusetts. Dr. James Lloyd is believed to have commissioned a portrait of his nephew, Colonel Fitch, and nieces Anna and Sarah (the children of his sister Elizabeth Lloyd Fitch) from the artist John Singleton Copley. This painting is now in the NGA (1960.4.1). Dr. Lloyd is also the subject of a portrait in the NGA collection (1947.17.107). A moderate loyalist, Dr. Lloyd remained in Boston during the British occupation. He went to England in 1789 to obtain compensation for his losses, but was unable to do so without declaring himself a British subject, which he declined to do. Dr. Lloyd died in Boston in 1810. [Compiled from sources and references recorded on CMS]

Bibliography

1927

Barck, Dorothy C., ed. Papers of the Lloyd Family of the Manor of Queen's Village, Lloyd's Neck, Long Island, New York, 1654-1826. vols. New York, 1927: 2:889, 895, 899.

1928

Biographical Directory of the American Congress. 69th Congress, 2nd Session, House Document No. 789, Washington, 1928: 1233.

1933

Dictionary of American Biography 1933: 11:333.

1995

Miles, Ellen G. American Paintings of the Eighteenth Century. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1995: 289-291

Related Content