Ernest Bertram Lloyd FLS FRES (14 May 1881 – 9 June 1944) was an English naturalist, humanitarian, vegetarian, and campaigner for animal rights and welfare. He helped found and served as the secretary of the National Society for the Abolition of Cruel Sports.
Bertram Lloyd | |
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| Born | Ernest Bertram Lloyd 14 May 1881 London, England |
| Died | 9 June 1944 (aged 63) |
| Education | Merchant Taylors' School |
| Occupation(s) | Naturalist, humanitarian, activist |
| Spouse |
Sylvia Colenso (m. 1938) |
| Family | Lloyd family |
Biography
editLloyd was born in North London on 14 May 1881.[1] He was a member of the Lloyd banking family.[2] and educated privately at Merchant Taylors' School. He then spent two years in Germany, where he attained fluency in German. On his return to London, Lloyd worked for his family's business for a number of years, but his passions ultimately lay elsewhere.[3][4]
Lloyd was an active member of the Humanitarian League and was a close associate of Henry S. Salt, with whom he shared many intellectual and social interests. Salt dedicated his book The Call of the Wildflower to "My Friends W. J. Jupp and E. Bertram Lloyd", reflecting their strong connection. Lloyd also edited The Great Kinship: An Anthology of Humanitarian Poetry (1921), which included two poems authored by Salt. At Salt’s funeral, Lloyd honoured his friend by reading Salt’s self-written funeral address.[5]
Lloyd was a conscientious objector during the First World War.[2] In 1918, he published his first edited collection of anti-war poems Poems Written During the Great War, 1914–1918, the selected poems critiqued the idealisation and glamour of war.[6] In 1919, he published a further anti-war poetry collection The Paths of Glory.[7]
From 1920, he contributed to the ornithology magazine, British Birds.[3] In 1921, Lloyd published The Great Kinship, an anthology of humanitarian poetry.[8] In 1932, he helped found the National Society for the Abolition of Cruel Sports, where he worked as its Honorary Secretary for the remainder of his life.[3] From 1935, he was editor of the journal Transactions of the Hertfordshire Natural History Society.[1] Lloyd was also a member of the British Ornithologists' Union and a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London.[3]
In 1938, Lloyd married Sylvia Colenso in Cardigan, Wales.[9]
Lloyd suffered from poor health near the end of his life; he became a Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society two days before his death at Champneys, near Tring, on 9 June 1944, aged 63.[1] He composed his own epitaph, which ended "He cared not a farthing for Heaven or God, / But valued far more an inch of green sod."[1]
Selected publications
edit- (ed.) Poems Written During the Great War, 1914–1918. London: George Allen & Unwin. 1918.
- (ed.) The Paths of Glory: A Collection of Poems Written During the War, 1914-1919. London: George Allen & Unwin. 1919.
- (ed.) The Great Kinship: An Anthology of Humanitarian Poetry. London: George Allen & Unwin. 1921.
- On the Behaviour of Male Mallards with Broods. Macmillan. 1937.
- (ed.) Foxhunters' Philosophy: A Garland from Five Centuries (PDF). National Society for the Abolition of Cruel Sports. 1938.
- Poems and Miscellaneous Translations. Self-published. 1944.
- A Vile Sport: Facts about Otterhunting. National Society for the Abolition of Cruel Sports. 1945.
- (with James Edgar Dandy) Notes on the Flora of Pembrokeshire. 1948.
- Winter Trees and Tones. Biographical Note by Samuel Joseph Looker. Riverside Press. 1949.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link) - Humanitarianism and Freedom. 1949.
References
edit- ^ a b c d Benson, Robert B. (1945). "In memoriam Bertram Lloyd — 1881-1944". Transactions of the Hertfordshire Natural History Society and Field Club. 22: 57–59.
- ^ a b Preece, Rod (2011). Animal Sensibility and Inclusive Justice in the Age of Bernard Shaw. Vancouver, Canada: UBC Press. p. 158. ISBN 9780774821124.
- ^ a b c d Kirkman, F. B. (1944). "Obituary". British Birds. Vol. 38. London: H. F. & G. Witherby Ltd. p. 73.
- ^ W. E. G. (January 1945). "Obituary". Ibis. 87 (1): 112–113. doi:10.1111/j.1474-919X.1945.tb01364.x. ISSN 1474-919X.
- ^ "Bertram Lloyd". Henry S. Salt Society. Retrieved 7 November 2024.
- ^ Varty, Anne (2 January 2017). "Women's Poetry in First World War Anthologies and Two Collections of 1916". Women's Writing. 24 (1): 37–52. doi:10.1080/09699082.2016.1233772. ISSN 0969-9082. S2CID 163709694.
- ^ Kendall, Tim, ed. (2013). Poetry of the First World War: An Anthology. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. xxiv. ISBN 9780199581443.
- ^ Li, Chien-hui (2017). Mobilizing Traditions in the First Wave of the British Animal Defense Movement. London: Palgrave Macmillan. p. 293. ISBN 9781137526519.
- ^ Gammage, Nick. "The Colenso family and Elangeni". Amersham Museum. Retrieved 26 October 2019.
Further reading
edit- Looker, Samuel L. (1960). Bertram Lloyd: Humanitarian and Pioneer (PDF). Leicester: G. C. M. Printing Service Ltd.
External links
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