About Wilson Lloyd
Lived 1835 – 1908 (aged 73). Wilson Lloyd was a British politician.
Wilson Lloyd (3 September 1835 – 4 September 1908) was a British iron founder and a Conservative Party politician who twice sat in the House of Commons between 1885 and 1895.
Lloyd was the son of Samuel Lloyd (1795-1862), known as "Quaker Lloyd", and his wife, the abolitionist Mary Honychurch Lloyd. 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,
Lloyd became a J.P. and an Alderman. He was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Wednesbury at the 1885 general election, but lost the seat in the 1886 election. He was Wednesbury's second Mayor from 1888 to 1890. but he did not stand again at the 1895 general election.
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Who was Wilson Lloyd?
British politician
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Wilson Lloyd was born on 3 September 1835 in Wednesbury.
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Wilson Lloyd died on 4 September 1908 in Wednesbury.
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Wilson Lloyd was a politician.
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