Wilson Lloyd
Wilson Lloyd (3 September 1835 – 4 September 1908)[1] was an English iron founder and a Conservative Party politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1885 and 1895.
Lloyd was the son of Samuel Lloyd, known as “Quaker Lloydâ€, and his wife Mary Honychurch. His father had developed the Old Park Ironworks at Wednesbury and by the mid-19th century, Messrs. Lloyds Foster and Co. was the town’s leading ironworks, employing 1200 men. The family sold the Ironworks in 1867,[2]
Lloyd became a J.P. and an Alderman. He was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Wednesbury at the 1885 general election,[3] but lost the seat in the 1886 election.[4] He was Wednesbury’s second Mayor from 1888 to 1890.[2] At the 1892 general election, he was elected again as MP for Wednesbury,[5] but he did not stand again at the 1895 general election.[4]
References
- ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "W" (part 2)
- 1 2 Black Country Bugle Quaker Lloyd 4 May 2006
- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 25541. p. 6138. 18 December 1885. Retrieved 10 October 2010.
- 1 2 Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1974]. British parliamentary election results 1885–1918 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 204. ISBN 0-900178-27-2.
- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 26311. p. 4311. 29 July 1892. Retrieved 10 October 2010.
External links
- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Wilson Lloyd
| Parliament of the United Kingdom | ||
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| Preceded by Alexander Brogden |
Member of Parliament for Wednesbury 1885 – 1886 |
Succeeded by Philip Stanhope |
| Preceded by Philip Stanhope |
Member of Parliament for Wednesbury 1892 – 1895 |
Succeeded by Walford Davis Green |