Stacy Barcroft Lloyd Jr. (July 8, 1908 – December 6, 1994) was a businessman, horse breeder, dairy cattle farmer and yachtsman. He was the founder of the equestrian journal ''

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''. and a renowned tandem carriage driver.

Biography

Lloyd was born on July 8, 1908 at Ardmore,

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. The Lloyd family's social status in Philadelphia dates from the time of

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. Stacy Barcroft Lloyd Sr. was a banker, President of the

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. His mother was Eleanor Borroughs Morris, a descendant of brewer Mayor

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, founder of the Morris family, another prominent Philadelphia family. He graduated from Princeton University in 1930 and went on to become the publisher and editor of the Clarke Courier Weekly in Clarke County, Virginia. Lloyd's first marriage was November 25, 1932, to Rachel Lowe Lambert. They divorced in 1948. His children by Rachel Lambert were a son, Washington D.C. antiquarian Stacy Barcoft Lloyd, III, and daughter Eliza. Rachel Lambert was a close friend of

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and

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served as a flower girl at Eliza's wedding to

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. They divorced in 1948 and he remarried to Alice Babcock in 1950. They had a son Robin Lloyd, a writer and journalist, who was an announcer for

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. After Alice died in May 1980 of polio he remarried in 1981 to his 3rd wife Virginia Ida “Vidy” Boy-Ed. Vidy Boy-Ed was the daughter of German Naval Attache

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and Virginia G. Mackay-Smith, daughter of Bishop Alexander Mackay-Smith of the

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. During World War II he served in the

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of the

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as a Lieutenant Colonel in the

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. He shared a flat in

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with another OSS operative

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who later married Lloyd's ex wife Rachel. An avid foxhunter, Lloyd teamed up with fellow foxhunter Gerald Webb in 1937 to produce ''The Middleburg Chronicle,'' an eight-page pamphlet devoted to local equestrian and foxhunting news. Based in Middleburg (Loudoun County) Virginia, the publication expanded over the years to include national and global equestrian sports. In 1947, after Webb was killed while competing in the Fox Hunters’ Challenge Cup at the Grand National steeplechase meet (Md.) when his horse fell at a jump, Lloyd continued to manage the publication until 1954. During his 30 year marriage to his 2nd wife Alice, the couple lived on

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in the

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where they were among the biggest landowners on the island. He owned a dairy farm and raised beef cattle. He also owned and operated the local dairy bottling plant. Upon Alice's death he moved back to Virginia to reside in Clark County at his Long Pond Farm in Berryville, raising Welsh Cobs and a small herd of Charolais cattle with his 3rd wife Vidy. From 1981 until his death in 1994 Lloyd remained an avid horseman and carriage driving enthusiast and often was seen driving his tandem of horses at carriage driving meets. He resided with his wife Vidy in

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, spending their summers carriage driving and sailing at Mt. Desert Island in

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. He died in Berryville, Virginia December 6, 1994 as a result of a carriage driving accident while working with a young horse. He is buried in Forest Hill Cemetery in Northeast Harbor, Maine.

Notes

References

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Saint Paul School, Concord, N.H. Obituary: Stacy B. Lloyd
*https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/136539735/virginia-ida-lloyd *https://littlesis.org/person/98364-Stacy_Lloyd 1908 births 1994 deaths People from Delaware County, Pennsylvania Businesspeople from Pennsylvania 20th-century American businesspeople People from Berryville, Virginia People from Hancock County, Maine People of the Office of Strategic Services Military personnel from Philadelphia {{US-business-bio-1900s-stub