Robert Lloyd (1733-1764) was an English poet and satirist. He was educated at Westminister School and at Trinity College, Cambridge, from where he graduated in 1758. He was author of the popular poem "The Actor" (1760) and the comic opera "The Capricious Lovers" (1764), which was first performed at Drury Lane just a few weeks before his death. He was co-author, with George Colman, of Ode to Obscurity and Ode to Oblivion, both published in the early 1760s, and both satires on the works of the poets Mason and Thomas Gray. He was also co-editor of St. James Magazine (1762-3), and member of the infamous Nonsense Club of Old Westminster men with Bonnell Thornton, George Colman, William Cowper and others. Drury Lane is a street in the Covent Garden area of London, running between Aldwych and High Holborn. ... George Colman was the name of two English dramatists, father and son: George Colman the Elder George Colman the Younger This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... The Nonsense Club was an infamous and scandalous club of 18th century British satirists centred around Westminster School. ... Bonnell Thornton (1725-1768) was an English poet, essayist and critic. ... George Colman was the name of two English dramatists, father and son: George Colman the Elder George Colman the Younger This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Portrait of William Cowper attributed to Romney. ...

Lloyd was often in debt, and apparently died in Fleet Prison on December 15, 1764, shortly after the death of his lifelong friend Charles Churchill, to whose sister, Patty, he was engaged. The Dictionary of National Biography reads that Lloyd joined Charles Churchill in a "reckless career of dissipation", and Vulliamy, in his biography of Boswell, wrote that Lloyd extinguished himself [died] when he was thirty-one, ruined by his friendship with Churchill. Charles Churchill (February, 1731 - November 4, 1764), was an English poet and satirist. ...

This article incorporates text from: Cousin, John William (1910). A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. London, J.M. Dent & sons; New York, E.P. Dutton. A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature is a collection of biographies of writers by John W. Cousin, published around 1910. ...