Richard Hey Lloyd (25 June 1933 – 24 April 2021) was a distinguished British organist, choirmaster, and composer renowned for his contributions to church music.

Born near Stockport, Cheshire, he was a chorister at Lichfield Cathedral (1942–47) and later studied at Rugby School and Jesus College, Cambridge, as an organ scholar (1952–55), earning an MA, FRCO, and ARCM. After National Service and a post at SHAPE near Paris, he served as assistant organist at Salisbury Cathedral (1957–66) under Christopher Dearnley.

In 1966 he became Organist and Master of the Choristers at Hereford Cathedral, conducting the Three Choirs Festival in 1967, 1970, and 1973. He moved to the same role at Durham Cathedral in 1974, a position he held until 1985, when he became deputy headmaster of Salisbury Cathedral School. Ill health forced early retirement in 1988.

In retirement, based in Leominster, Herefordshire, Lloyd examined for the ABRSM for 44 years and focused on composition, producing around 600 works and arrangements. His accessible, finely crafted choral music, much written during his Durham years, is widely performed in cathedrals and parishes worldwide and has been praised as “some of the most rewarding church music of our time” (Gramophone). He received honours including FRSCM (2010) and Hon FGCM (2006).

He died in Hereford on 24 April 2021 after a short illness, survived by his wife Teresa (m. 1962) and their four daughters.