Robert Lewis-Lloyd

Robert Lewis-Lloyd (9 January 1836 – 7 September 1915) was a Welsh rower and barrister who was High Sheriff of Radnorshire and who umpired the Boat Race between 1881 and 1888.

Lewis-Lloyd was born at Cardigan, Ceredigion, the son of Thomas Lewis-Lloyd of Nantgwyllt, Radnorshire and his wife Anna Davies. One of his sisters was the mountaineer Emmeline Lewis Lloyd.

He was educated at Eton College and was admitted at Trinity College, Cambridge, but migrated to Magdalene College, Cambridge. Lewis-Lloyd rowed for Cambridge in the Boat Race in the 1856 race when they won and in the 1857 race. He was C.U.B.C. President in 1858 when Cambridge won the Boat Race again, and also won the Grand Challenge Cup at Henley Royal Regatta. He was president for the 1859 race when Cambridge sank in the Boat Race.

Lewis-Lloyd was admitted at the Inner Temple on 18 January 1860 and was called to the bar on 6 June 1864. He married Mary Anne Jane Lewis on 6 June 1865.