Shakespeare and the Law - Lloyd Davis Dedication

This Exhibition is dedicated to

Lloyd Benjamin Davis
1959-2005

But if the while I think on thee, dear friend,
All losses are restor'd and sorrows end.
Sonnet XXX

The Supreme Court of Queensland Library is honoured to dedicate this exhibition to Lloyd Benjamin Davis.
Lloyd was an inspiring teacher, a widely respected scholar, and a loving husband, father and friend. He died shortly before his dreams and plans for hosting Australia's first World Shakespeare Congress in Brisbane were realised. Lloyd's devotion to all things Shakespearian, his true humanism, reflected in deep scholarship, love of literature and learning, are commemorated here today.

And gladly wolde he lerne and gladly teche
Geoffrey Chaucer, General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales.

1959		1977-82		1985		1989-90		1994		1997-00		1998-00		2001		2005

Comments from some of Lloyd’s friends, colleagues and companions:

That was Lloyd: brilliant at many things;
good at everything by the simple application
of intelligence and good sense and willingness to try.
Professor Richard Fotheringham, Eulogy, 11 August 2005.

Lloyd was—to rework Chaucer—a very perfect gentleman and scholar, wise, considerate and dedicated to learning, friends, and family. In his living and in his dying he exhibited all of the virtues.
The Rev. Prof. John Morgan.