Richard Lewis Lloyd died in New York on June 19th, 1937, at the age of 67.
An American citizen of English descent, he was born at Massillon, Ohio, and entered the Washington University of St. Louis in 1887, graduating in mining in 1891. In the following year he was employed by the Butte and Boston Smelter, Butte, Montana, first as labourer, and for the next four years as foreman, furnace man, and assistant superintendent successively.
From 1896 to 1898 he was superintendent of the Deadwood and Delamare Smelter, South Dakota, and for the following five years general foreman and metallurgist at the Boston and Montana Smelter at Great Falls, Montana, where he first met Colonel A.S. Dwight. In 1903 he became superintendent of the reduction division at the Cananea Smelter, Sonora, Mexico, and in 1906 was appointed general metallurgist to the Braden Copper Co., Chile.
From 1908 to 1910 he was general superintendent of the mines and smelter of the Teziutlan Copper Co., La Aurora, Mexico, and from 1910 to 1912 was engaged in general metallurgical consulting work. From 1912 onwards he was vice-president of the Dwight and Lloyd Metallurgical Co. and of the Dwight and Lloyd Sintering Co. — companies formed to exploit the well-known roasting and sintering process of which he was co-inventor with Colonel Arthur S. Dwight, Hon. M.Inst.M.M.
Mr. Lloyd was elected a Member of the Institution in 1926.
Vol. 47, Trans IMM 1937-8, pp.544-5
