He was born in
Mount Ida, Virginia on May 3, 1857, to John Janney Lloyd and Eliza Armistead Selden. He was educated at the
Virginia Polytechnic Institute, the
University of Virginia, the
Virginia Theological Seminary with a
D.D., and later he attended
Roanoke College. He entered the ministry of the
Episcopal Church and was ordained deacon on June 25, 1880, and priest on June 24, 1881. He then served as a missionary in
Prince Edward County, Virginia till 1885. Between 1885 and 1899, he was rector of
St Luke's Church in
Norfolk, Virginia. From 1900 until 1909 he was general secretary of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society. He married Elizabeth Robertson Blackford on June 30, 1880. He died on July 22, 1936, in
Darien, Connecticut. ==References==