Edward Lloyd was a British tenor singer who excelled in concert and oratorio performance, and was recognised as a legitimate successor of John Sims Reeves as the foremost tenor exponent of that genre during the last quarter of the nineteenth century.
Edward Lloyd, foremost English concert tenor of the 1880s and 1890s. The original performer of the 'soul' in Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius.
Edward Lloyd, 1899
Lloyd as caricatured by Lib for Vanity Fair, 1892
John Sims Reeves was an English operatic, oratorio and ballad tenor vocalist during the mid-Victorian era.
Reeves, c 1889.
Reeves with Catherine Hayes at La Scala, 1846
Reeves in the title role of Fra Diavolo, which he first performed in 1852 at Drury Lane.
1860s photograph of Reeves