Dates

• Existence: 1875 - 10 February 1939

Biography

Godfrey Isaac Howard Lloyd was born in 1875 in Moseley, Worcestershire, the fourth of at least seven children of Howard Lloyd, a bank manager, and Matilda Booth. He studied at King Edward VI School, Birmingham, and then at Trinity College, Cambridge.

He became Professor of Economics at Firth College, Sheffield (which became part of the University of Sheffield), in 1900, until he moved to the University of Toronto as the Associate Professor of Political Economy in 1909. Whilst in Toronto, he published The Cutlery Trades: An Historical in the Economics of Small-scale Production (London: Longmans, Green and Co.,1913), based on the small-scale industries of Sheffield. Arthur Lismer, originally from Sheffield but also recently emigrated to Canada, produced the illustrations for this work.

Lloyd returned to England in 1915 and worked for the remainder of the War in the Ministry of Munitions. From 1920 to 1935 he was in the Department for Overseas Trade, eventually becoming the Director of the Trades and Economic Division in 1930.

He retired from public service in 1935, and used his wide knowledge of international trade acting as a liaison officer in the Economic and Financial Section of the League of Nations in Geneva for the next two years. He died in London on 10th February 1939, survived by his wife and two children.

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