Born on January 6th, 1854, the second son of John Lloyd, of Small Heath, Birmingham, who taught anatomy for many years in Queen's College. After education at King Edward's School, Birmingham, he entered the office of the *Birmingham Daily Post* as a proof reader, but at the age of 21 he left journalism for medicine. He entered at the old school of Queen's College, with its teachers, Gamgee, Lawson Tait, and Furneaux Jordan, and rapidly showed himself a successful prize-winner. After qualifying he was appointed House Surgeon at the Queen's Hospital, and then continued his studies in London and Newcastle-upon-Tyne. In 1881 he was elected Casualty Surgeon to the Queen's Hospital, and in 1883 Hon Surgeon. He held the latter appointment to the time of his death. He lectured for many years on operative surgery in the Medical School, and in 1910, on the retirement of Bennett May, was appointed to the joint Chair of Surgery with Gilbert Barling, and undertook the greater part of the work. But, as though he were insufficiently employed, he sought and obtained the post of Visiting Surgeon to the Poor Law Infirmary, and was thus involved in many operations. He was an Examiner in Surgery to the University of Durham, and at the time of his death was Consulting Surgeon to the Children's Hospital, the Dental Hospital, and the West Bromwich Hospital. He was at one time Surgical Assistant at the General Hospital, Birmingham, and lectured on physiology at the Midland Institute. He was also Professor of Operative Surgery at the University, and was a St John Ambulance Lecturer and Lecturer to the Birmingham Athletic Institute. He was Acting Surgeon in 1889 to the 1st Warwickshire Volunteers, and received a Commission as Lieutenant-Colonel RAMC (T) on the formation of the Territorial Army, being also appointed Officer Commanding the 1st South General Hospital, South Midland Division. In the Birmingham Branch of the British Medical Association he held most of the offices, was President in 1903-1904, and for some years was a Member of the Central Council. His contemporaries spoke highly of his skill in surgery, mentioning his work in kidney and gall-bladder surgery as his most valuable contribution. Despite an unsatisfactory state of health, Jordan Lloyd worked to the last day of his life and abated none of his professional and philanthropic activities. He spoke in public a few days before his death, and on the morning of Friday, April 4th, 1913, had done a hard morning's operating at the Queen's Hospital before driving home to Edgbaston. He was feeling tired, and at his house was seized with a heart attack, which, in an interval, he was able to describe as terrible. He died almost immediately afterwards. He had done four or five operations on the Friday morning, and unfortunately one of the patients, a child, stopped breathing. He performed artificial respiration himself, and had the satisfaction of seeing it recover, but it is only too probable that he gave his own life in exchange. He was survived by his widow, eldest daughter of Mercer H Simpson, of Birmingham, whom he had married in 1887, and by three daughters and a son. An early portrait of him accompanies his biography in the *Provincial Medical Journal* (Leicester, 1892, xi, 281), and another later one accompanies his life in the *British Medical Journal* (1913, i, 798). The Jordan Lloyd Ward in the Queen's Hospital, Birmingham, was endowed in his memory. His two addresses were: 22 Broad Street, Birmingham, and The Mythe, Ampton Road, Edgbaston. Publications:- "Nephrotomy for Renal Calculus." - *Lancet*, 1883, i, 948. "Practical Observations in Kidney Surgery." - *Birmingham Med Rev*, 1886, xx, 262. "Practical Observations on Cerebral Surgery." - *Ibid*, 1889, xxv, 65. Many other articles are published in the *Birmingham Med Rev*, of which he was editor from 1886-8.