Stacy Barcroft Lloyd III was an award winning foreign service officer, rare book antiquarian and Washington, DC bookstore owner.
Mr. Lloyd was the son of Rachel “Bunny” Mellon, the Listerine fortune heiress who later married Paul Mellon, an art collector and patron, philanthropist and horse breeder. He was raised at the Mellon farm in Upperville, Va. His father and namesake was a Virginia publisher who helped found the equestrian journal the Chronicle of the Horse.
Stacy Barcroft Lloyd III was born in Millwood, Va., on Sept. 23, 1936. He graduated in 1960 from Middlebury College in Vermont and began his career aboard the hospital ship Hope, traveling to Peru and Saigon.
In the early years of America’s entry into the Vietnam War, Mr. Lloyd became a U.S. Information Service field officer in a remote area of northeastern Laos. He spoke the language of the mountain tribesmen, among whom he was trying to promote a sense of identity and loyalty with the Laotian governing authorities.
In 1968, Mr. Lloyd he was the first recipient of the Averell Harriman Award, which honors outstanding work among young Foreign Service officers.
After five years with the Foreign Service in Laos and two in Washington, Mr. Lloyd left the State Department and spent a year as a writer and researcher for newspaper columnist Jack Anderson.
He later opened an antiquarian and travel bookstore in Georgetown called Lloyd Books, where published authors were known to browse on the third floor. Customers could get discounts on their purchases with correct answers on a daily travel quiz. The staff made a practice of celebrating such little-known events as the mailman’s birthday.
Lloyd died on March 16, 2017 at the age of 80.
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