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About James Lloyd, Il
Biography
Dr. James Lloyd II was born in Boston in 1728 to merchant Henry Lloyd and Rebecca Nelson, the daughter of King’s Chapel proprietor John Nelson. Rather than receiving part of the Lloyd family estate in Long Island, his father paid for Dr. Lloyd’s medical education in London. He returned to Boston in the mid 1750’s to practice medicine, becoming one of the first pediatricians and obstetricians in the area. Other famous physicians then trained under Dr. Lloyd, including Joseph Warren and King’s Chapel’s John Jeffries.
Despite personally being a Loyalist, Dr. James Lloyd remained in Boston and professionally continued to be a well-regarded physician in the Boston community throughout the American Revolution. As John Jeffries’ mentor, Dr. Lloyd helped treat the victims of the Boston Massacre alongside him and acted as an important medical advisor to Generals Gage and Howe while they were in Boston. Lloyd’s other mentee, Dr. Joseph Warren, actually lived with Dr. Lloyd for part of his young adult life and they developed a life-long friendship, perhaps one of the reasons why Warren’s funeral took place at King’s Chapel in 1775. Along with some other King’s Chapel physicians like Doctors Thomas Bulfinch, John Jeffries, and Silvester Gardiner, Dr. Lloyd was one of the leading physicians to inoculate patients against smallpox and supported the creation of inoculation hospitals at Castle William and Point Shirley.
The Lloyd family’s involvement at King’s Chapel goes back to the congregation’s founding. We have records that Dr. James Lloyd’s grandfather, James Lloyd I, financially contributed to the building of the original wooden chapel in 1688 and Dr. Lloyd II’s father, Henry Lloyd, was a church warden in the 1750s. Dr. Lloyd is listed as owning tomb number 8, which he possibly inherited from his father Henry Lloyd. At some point, however, the Lloyd family become members of Trinity Church, an Anglican daughter church of King’s Chapel, originally located next to the Old South Meeting House.
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James Lloyd, Il's Timeline
| 1728 |
1728
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Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States
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| 1766 |
1766
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| 1769 |
December 1769
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Boston, MA, United States
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| 1810 |
1810
Age 82
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