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Trevor Lloyd (priest)

Archdeacon of Barnstaple

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 18, 2025
Entity authorityQ7839286 ↗
Source-derived summary

Bertram Trevor Lloyd (born 15 February 1938) is an Anglican priest and author.

Lloyd was educated at Highgate School and Hertford College, Oxford. He was ordained in 1964 and began his career with a curacy at Christ Church, Barnet and held incumbencies at Holy Trinity, Wealdstone and St Michael, Harrow until his archdeacon’s appointment. He was Archdeacon of Barnstaple from 1989 until his retirement in 2002.

Selected works

Selected works by Lloyd:

Informal Liturgy (1972)

Lay Presidency at the Eucharist?

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Trevor Lloyd (priest)” is archdeacon of Barnstaple. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Trevor, Lloyd and priest, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1938, 1964, 1989, 2002—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1938-02-15. For this dossier, Trevor, Lloyd and priest is the immediate research focus.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 18, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q7839286. VIAF identifies the subject as 79528056. The Library of Congress control number is n77016606. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1938, 1964, 1989 and 2002.

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This entry incorporates text from “Trevor Lloyd (priest)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.