Lloyd's building consists of three main towers and three service towers around a central, rectangular space. Its core is the large Underwriting Room on the ground floor, which houses the Lutine Bell within the Rostrum. Also on the first floor is loss book which for 300 years has had entries of significant losses entered by quill. The Underwriting Room (often simply called "the Room") is overlooked by galleries, forming a high atrium lit naturally through a huge barrel-vaulted glass roof. The first four galleries open onto the atrium space, and are connected by escalators through the middle of the structure. The higher
E. S. Lloyd Christopher Lloyd. Lloyd arrived in Madras on 21 December 1894 and served as Assistant Collector and Magistrate. In September 1902, he was appointed District Collector and magistrate, Bangalore. Lloyd was appointed President of Madras Corporation in 1906 and served till 1910. In his later life, Lloyd served as Revenue Secretary and Finance Secretary of Madras Presidency. For a brief while in 1923, he also acted as Chief Secretary. Lloyd died in 1945. Lloyd was made a Companion of the Order of the Star of India in the New Year Honours of 1924. E. S. Lloyd Ernest Sampson Lloyd (26 May