Ernest Bertram Lloyd (14 May 1881 – 9 June 1944) was active in the Humanitarian Movement and in 1932 helped found the National Society for the Abolition of Cruel Sports.1 In his free time he was a keen field naturalist. In 1938 Bertram Lloyd married Sylvia Colenso in Cardiganshire.
Bertram Lloyd was a member of the Humanitarian League and was a close friend of Henry S. Salt, both men shared similar interests. Salt’s book The Call of the Wildflower was dedicated to “To My Friends W. J. JUPP and E. BERTRAM LLOYD.” Bertram edited “The Great Kinship: An Anthology of Humanitarian Poetry” (Allen & Unwin 1921) which featured two poems by Henry Salt. At Salt’s funeral, Lloyd read out Salt’s self-penned funeral address.
He was the Honorary Secretary of the National Society for the Abolition of Cruel Sports (NSACS). His contribution to the humanitarian movement was acknowledged in “Bertram Lloyd, Humanitarian and Pioneer” by Samuel J. Looker and “In Memoriam Bertram Lloyd—1881-1944” by Robert B. Benson.
Bertram Lloyd Bibliography
Poems Written During the Great War, 1914-1918: An Anthology, Edited by Bertram Lloyd, G. Allen & Unwin Limited, 1918, 111 pages
The Paths of Glory: A Collection of Poems Written During the War, 1914-1919, Edited by Bertram Lloyd, G. Allen & Unwin Limited, 1919, 119 pages
The Great Kinship: An Anthology of Humanitarian Poetry, Edited by Bertram Lloyd, G. Allen & Unwin Limited, 1921, 271 pages
On the Behaviour of Male Mallards with Broods, By Bertram Lloyd, Macmillan, 1937, 3 pages
Foxhunters’ Philosophy. A Garland from Five Centuries, Edited by Bertram Lloyd, National Society for the Abolition of Cruel Sports, 1938, 24 pages
Poems and Miscellaneous Translations, By Bertram Lloyd, 1944, 39 pages
A Vile Sport: Facts about Otterhunting, By Bertram Lloyd, National Society for the Abolition of Cruel Sports, 1945, 16 pages
Notes on the Flora of Pembrokeshire, By Bertram Lloyd, James Edgar Dandy, 1948, 8 pages
Winter Trees and Tones, By Bertram Lloyd, Biographical Note by Samuel Joseph Looker, Riverside Press, 1949, 38 pages
Humanitarianism and Freedom, By Bertram Lloyd, 1949
Further Reading:
- Bertram Lloyd, Humanitarian and Pioneer by Samuel J. Looker, Privately Printed, 1960, 16 pages.
- Ibis (The International Journal of Avian Science) Tribute
- British Birds Obituary, June 1944-Dec 1945, p. 73
- In Memoriam Bertram Lloyd—1881-1944 by Robert B. Benson, Transactions of the Hertfordshire Natural History Society and Field Club, Vol. XXII, Part 3, 1945
- In Memoriam Bertram Lloyd—1881-1944 by Robery B. Benson ↩︎