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Charles Lloyd (8 September 1835 – 8 October 1908)[1] was a pipe organ builder based in Nottingham who flourished between 1859 and 1908.[2]
Family
He was born in London on 8 September 1835, the son of shoemaker Samuel Lloyd. He was baptised on 18 March 1838 in St Pancras New Church. In 1851, at age 15, he was an apprentice organ builder.
He married Mary Ann Dennison (b c. 1841 in Nottingham) in 1864.
Background
Charles Lloyd had previously worked for Samuel Groves of London. Lloyd set up in business first with Lorenzo Valentine and shortly afterwards with Alfred Dudgeon. Their workshop was at 52A Union Road, near the centre of Nottingham. The company Valentine and Dudgeon was started in 1859. They were soon at work installing organs in places of worship in and around the Nottingham area. Lloyd was commissioned by Sydney Pierrepont, 3rd Earl Manvers of Holme Pierrepont, to construct and exhibit a two manual and pedal organ at the Birmingham Trades Exhibition in 1865. It won Lloyd a gold medal award for its workmanship and tone. After the exhibition, the organ was moved back to Nottingham and installed in St. Edmund's Church, Holme Pierrepont.
Lloyd & Dudgeon were partners until the death of Albert Dudgeon on 6 February 1874.[3] The company name was then changed to Charles Lloyd & Co., Church Organ Builders, Nottingham.
When the Great Central Railway was brought to Nottingham in 1896, land occupied by the Lloyd business had to be cleared to make way for the Victoria Station. Lloyd moved to 79 Brighton Street, St Ann's.
In 1909, his son, Charles Frederick Lloyd took over the business and it continued until 1928 with no change to the name. The company was then acquired by Roger Yates.
Company names and addresses
Lloyd and Valentine 1859 – 1860, Bilbie Street, Nottingham
Lloyd and Valentine 1861, 19 William Street, and 6 Sherwood Street, Nottingham
Lloyd and Dudgeon 1862 – 1876, 52A Union Road, Nottingham
Charles Lloyd & Co. 1876 – 1896, 52A Union Road, Nottingham
Charles Lloyd & Co. 1896 – 1928, 79 Brighton Street, St Ann's, Nottingham
Apprentices
His first apprentice was Ernest Wragg of Carlton who, after his period of training, set up as an organ builder himself in 1894 on Carlton Road, Thorneywood, as E. Wragg & Son, Organ Builders.
The second was John Compton, born in Measham, Leicestershire. He entered into organ building first at Birmingham, then with Brindley of Sheffield, then in Nottingham under Charles Lloyd. When free of his apprenticeship in 1902, along with an organ builder named Musson of Woodborough Road, Nottingham, they became Compton & Musson.
St. Giles Church, West Bridgford, Nottingham 1899 at a cost of £500. It was a three manual and pedal with choir organ prepared for.[43] It was rebuilt and enlarged by Henry Willis & Sons in 1952, and removed in 1993.[44]
Ebenezer Methodist Church, Newhall, Derbyshire ca. 1900[45] (in 2008 installed in Swadlincote Baptist Church)[46]
Christ Church, St Albans, Hertfordshire, ca. 1900 rebuilt and enlarged[47]
^"NEW CHURCHES IN NOTTINGHAM". Nottinghamshire Guardian. 16 September 1864. p. 5. Retrieved 31 January 2016 – via British Newspaper Archive.
^"Opening of a New Organ at St. John's Church". Nottingham Journal. England. 27 May 1865. Retrieved 5 November 2022 – via British Newspaper Archive.
^"THE NEW ORGAN FOR ALL SAINTS' CHURCH, NOTTINGHAM". Nottinghamshire Guardian. 7 July 1865. p. 8. Retrieved 31 January 2016 – via British Newspaper Archive.
^"OPENING OF A NEW ORGAN AT HYSON GREEN CHURCH". Nottinghamshire Guardian. 22 December 1865. p. 11. Retrieved 31 January 2016 – via British Newspaper Archive.
^"RE-OPENING OF BROAD-STREET BAPTIST CHAPEL". Nottinghamshire Guardian. 20 August 1869. p. 5. Retrieved 31 January 2016 – via British Newspaper Archive.
^"OPENING OF THE NEW ORGAN". Derbyshire Advertiser and Journal. 2 December 1870. p. 3. Retrieved 31 January 2016 – via British Newspaper Archive.
^"Codnor Parish Church". Derbyshire Courier. England. 9 December 1876. Retrieved 17 June 2017 – via British Newspaper Archive.
^"FINDERN". Derby Mercury. 9 August 1876. p. 8. Retrieved 31 January 2016 – via British Newspaper Archive.
^"OPENING OF A NEW CHURCH AT THORESBY PARK". Nottinghamshire Guardian. 24 November 1876. p. 8. Retrieved 31 January 2016 – via British Newspaper Archive.
^"RESTORATION OF BURTON JOYCE CHURCH". Nottinghamshire Guardian. 30 May 1879. p. 3. Retrieved 31 January 2016 – via British Newspaper Archive.
^"OPENING OF THE NEW ORGAN AT ST. THOMAS'S CHURCH". Nottingham Evening Post. 2 November 1882. p. 8. Retrieved 31 January 2016 – via British Newspaper Archive.
^"REOPENING OF A CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH AT RIDDINGS". Nottinghamshire Guardian. 30 March 1883. p. 5. Retrieved 31 January 2016 – via British Newspaper Archive.