Family and Education

b. Aug. 1748, 1st s. of Edward Lloyd (d.1799) of Leaton Knolls, nr. Shrewsbury, Salop by Jane, da. and h. of Thomas Lloyd of Domgay. educ.1 Trinity, Oxf. 1764; I. Temple 1766. m. (?Oct.) 1777, Elizabeth, da. of Arthur Graham of Hockley Lodge, co. Armagh, coh. of her mat. gdfa. John, 1st Earl Ligonier, 4s. 4da.

Offices Held

Sheriff, Mont. 1789-90.

Biography

Lloyd resided on his mother’s ancient family estate in Montgomeryshire and was returned for the county on a vacancy in 1795.2 He gave an independent support to Pitt’s administration, but voted against it on the subject of the land tax (April-May 1798), supporting the view that there should be no new land tax without a tax on all property. Lloyd certainly spoke against the cavalry bill, 2 Nov. 1796, and he may have spoken again as ‘Mr Lloyd’ (there were three in the House then).3 An investor in East India Company stock, he died 19 Feb. 1799, shortly before his father, ‘enforcing general respect by his public merit’.4

Ref Volumes: 1790-1820

Author: R. G. Thorne

Notes

• 1. The suggestion in the Register of Harrow school that he was a pupil there 1770-1 is incorrect, though two of his sons were Harrovians.
• 2. Mont. Coll. xxxii. 229.
• 3. Geo. III Corresp. ii. 1459.
• 4. MI in Llandysilio church.