William Whitelocke Lloyd

A SOLDIER ARTIST IN ZULULAND
William Whitelocke LLoyd and the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879
by David Rattray

Featuring previously unpublished watercolour paintings and sketches of the Anglo-Zulu War. As an officer of the 24th Regiment of Foot, Lieutenant William Whitelocke Lloyd (1856-1897) saw active service in the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879. He was also an artist of considerable talent. On his return to civilian life he became the official artist for the P&O and Union Castle Lines, and several books were published of his artwork. But the watercolour paintings and sketches he made during the Anglo-Zulu War have remained unpublished and unknown for more than a century.
From the sea voyage to Cape Town and throughout the Zulu campaign, to the time he departed, the paintings give a graphic rendition, as accurate and informative as it is beautiful, of key events in the campaign, including the aftermath of the battles of Isandlwana and Rorke's Drift, the death of the Prince Imperial and the final battle of Ulundi.
In the accompanying text details are given of the progress of the 24th Regiment in parallel with the wider story of the campaign. The use of original diaries and source material infuses the stories of individuals with life, and the paintings themselves shed new light on many of the events of the war. This will be essential reading for anyone with an interest in the Anglo-Zulu War.
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"The wedding of William Whitelocke Lloyd (standing centre) and Catherine Anna Mona Brougham in 1885. daughter of Very Rev. Henry William Brougham D.D. Dean of Lismore. George Whitelocke-Whitelocke Lloyd is believed to be the man seated to the left of the bride, while the lady whom upon whom William rests his left hand must be his stepmother, Lady Anne Margaret Butler, 2nd daughter of Richard Somerset, 3rd Earl of Carrick. The brides father Very Rev. Henry William Brougham may be the man on the back row, left side, looking at the bride as she is looking at him."

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"Lloyd left the army in 1882 and returned to Ireland where he was married in the summer of 1885 to Catherine Brougham, a daughter of the Dean of Lismore Cathedral, Co. Waterford.[xviii] They settled in Glandore, Co. Cork, where they had two children, Percy and Winifred.

He became a professional illustrator and was commissioned by the Peninsula and Orient Steamship Company (P&O) to draw pen and ink sketches that could be sold to their passengers as a keepsake for their voyage. The work brought him all over the world and he would go on to produce three books of sketches of life on board these luxury liners and the exotice places through which they passed.

Although he also produced a collection of largely humorous sketches of military life called ‘On Active Service’, Lloyd never published his Zulu works.

Perhaps he had planned to but he was tragically killed in the autumn of 1897 when he fell 20 feet from a tree that he was pruning at Glandore. He was just 41 years old. There is a memorial to his memory in Lismore Cathedral.

His only son Percy ultimately succeeded to Strancally Castle but, burdened with debt, sold most of the contents during the 1930s and the house itself was sold in 1959.[xxii]

Winifred managed to keep hold of her father’s Zululand album which, following her death in Cork in 1976, she left to a family called Becher who had cared for her in her old age.
Source Turtle Bunbury. "

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Lismore Cathedral.

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His wife's grave Catherine Anna St Barrahanes, Castlehaven. Co Cork Irland

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Strancally Castle

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LLOYD, WILLIAM WHITELOCK.
SKETCHES TAKEN WITH 1ST BATTALION 24TH REGT. IN BRITISH KAFFARIA. NATAL. ZULULAND AND ON THE VOYAGE HOME.
Estimate: 40,000 - 60,000 GBP 
LOT SOLD. 49,250 GBP  

SKETCHES  TAKEN  WITH  1ST  BATTALION  24TH  REGT.  IN  BRITISH  KAFFARIA.  NATAL.  ZULULAND  AND  ON  THE  VOYAGE  HOME.  

Album  containing  100  watercolours  and  24  pen  and  ink  or  pencil  sketches  (also  one  photograph)  with  captions  in  pencil  (on  the  mount)  and  some  in  ink  (on  the  image),  drawn  by  a  soldier  on  active  service  during  the  Anglo-Zulu  War,  highly  accomplished,  accurate  and  detailed  illustrations  of  the  conflict  and  its  landscape  including  Rorke's  Drift  House  in  the  weeks  immediately  after  the  battle  there,  views  of  troops  movements  during  the  Battle  of  Ulundi,  the  battlefield  at  Isandlhwana,  the  location  where  the  Prince  Imperial  was  killed,  many  landscape  views  of  Zululand  including  a  three-page  panorama  of  the  Valley  of  Ulundi  and  a  two-page  panorama  of  the  2nd  Division  Camp  in  Zululand,  troops  advancing  through  Zululand,  laager,  camps  and  settlements  (such  as  Fort  Napier,  Maritzburg),  studies  of  soldiers  and  Zulus,  also  other  South  African  scenes  and  views  of  Madeira,  Tenerife  and  other  ports  visited  on  the  return  voyage  to  England,  all  sketches  mounted  in  the  album,  109  pages,  plus  blanks,  with  12  modern  protective  leaves  interleaved,  oblong  folio  (285  x  370mm),  1878-79,  half  black  morocco,  album  leaves  with  nicks  and  tears  professionally  repaired,  four  stubs,  tears  to  two  album  leaves  where  items  have  apparently  been  removed,  rebacked.

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Some of Whitelock's Work.