Real name: William Francis Lloyd

Effective period / Period of releases: 1909

He was born William Francis Lloyd on 6th September 1862 at 31 Exeter Street, Marylebone.
In October 1882 he was appointed tenor in the choir of St George, Campden Hill, Kensington.
In October 1890 he was appointed Principal Tenor of St Marylebone parish church.
Until January 1895 he used the name "Francis Lloyd" and thereafter became "Lloyd Chandos".
In April 1896 he was tenor soloist in 'Messiah' at the Royal Albert Hall with Esther Palliser, Clara Butt, Charles Santley, and conducted by Sir Joseph Barnby.
On 16 November 1898, in Sunderland, he sang "Onaway, awake, beloved!" in the first public performance Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's "Hiawatha's Wedding Feast".
His last known concert was at the Oakfield Congregational Church, Shepherd's Bush, in aid of the Lord Mayor's Fund for Distressed Mining Areas, with Carrie Tubb and Thalben Ball.
He died in Bexhill-on-Sea on 9th August 1950, aged eighty-seven.