History of Mount Ida, (Alexandria (city) County) Virginia United States of America

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A Biography of Arthur Selden Lloyd

Arthur Selden Lloyd, clergyman, was born at Mount Ida, Alexandria county, Va., May 3, 1857; son of John Janney and Eliza Armistead (Selden) Lloyd, and grandson of John and Rebecca (Janney) Lloyd and of Wilson Cary and Mary (Armistead) Selden. He attended the Potomac academy at Alexandria, Va.; studied at the University of Virginia, 1874-77, and was graduated from the Theological Seminary of Virginia in 1880. He was married June 30, 1880, to Lizzie Robertson, daughter of William Willis and Mary (Robertson) Blackford. He was ordered deacon in 1880; ordained priest in 1881, and served as a missionary in the diocese of Virginia, 1880-85. He was rector of St. Luke's, Norfolk, Va., 1885-99, and was elected general secretary of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America in October, 1899. The honorary degree of D.D. was conferred on him by Roanoke college in 1898.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor