From November 1992 Salisbury Orchestral Society Programme

Richard Lloyd has been involved for most of his life in church music in one way or another. He was a chorister in Lichfield Cathedral and studied at Rugby and Cambridge. After National Service, during which time he acquired skills as a clerk and a tank gunner and compiled a guide to Paris restaurants, he spent some years as Assistant Organist at Salisbury Cathedral and was Conductor of the Salisbury Musical Society. He was appointed Conductor of the SOS in 1964. He was Organist at Hereford and then Durham before returning to Salisbury to teach at the Cathedral School. His stay was curtailed by illness and he now spends much of his time writing church music to order. He writes little during the cricket season and there are other interests to occupy him - reading, walking, the theatre, unspoilt hostelries and listening to music. He is married and has four daughters.

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