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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19196, 12 June 1924, Page 8

Who was the Lloyd who gave his name for nil time to two of tho most famous shipping organisations in (ho world, Lloyd's and Lloyd's Register? Very little is known of hirn exrept that he was a Welshman, opened a coffee-house in Lombard street some 230 years ago, and bound his customers to him by publishing three times a week a news-sheet, called "Lloyd's News," filled with commercial intelligence from British ports and the principal European cities. He also started sales <.;id auctions for the disposal of commodities as varied as ships and horses and wines and spirits and farms. For more than half a century all the clocks on the Royal estate at Sandriiigham have been k<>pt half an hour ahead of Greenwich time. Tho idea was introduced by th? late King- Edward VII when he was Prince of Wales, and was borrowed from a neighbour, the late Earl of Leicester, to whom at Holkham, in the early days of their married life, the then Prince and Princess of Wales were frequent visitors. It was the Earl's custom to keep all tho clocks a* Holkham Hall half an hour fast to secure nunduality. so punctual was King Edwatr. : u keeping his appointments that he gained the reputation of "never he'ir.i' late." Only' a brave man wants to know what other people think of him.