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He was the son of [[George Lloyd (scholar)|George Lloyd]] and his wife Susanna(h) Horton, sister of [[Sir William Horton, 1st Baronet]]. He |
He was the son of [[George Lloyd (scholar)|George Lloyd]] and his wife Susanna(h) Horton, sister of [[Sir William Horton, 1st Baronet]]. He was apprenticed to the cloth trade in [[Leeds]]. He went into business there in the 1760s on his own account, with the Gautier brothers, and then with Horace Cattaneo in the export trade from 1776. Accumulating a business fortune, he bought [[Stockton Hall, Yorkshire|Stockton Hall]].<ref>{{cite ODNB|id=39688|first=Daniel Stearne|last=Hollis, III|title=Lloyd, Gamaliel}}</ref><ref name="Burke1834">{{cite book|author=John Burke|title=A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland Enjoying Territorial Possessions Or High Official Rank, But Uninvested with Heritable Honours|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UJFIAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA244|year=1834|publisher=H. Colburn|pages=244–5}}</ref><ref name="GM">{{cite book|author=Sylvanus Urban|title=The Gentleman's Magazine: and Historical Chronicle|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nLAUAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA377|year=1817|page=377}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Richard George Wilson|title=Gentlemen Merchants: The Merchant Community in Leeds, 1700-1830|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oh4NAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA22|year=1971|publisher=Manchester University Press|isbn=978-0-7190-0459-9|page=22}}</ref> |
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[[Christopher Wyvill]], the moderate who had founded the Yorkshire Association, was active at that time in campaigning for electoral reform; and Lloyd offered help in corresponding with provincial centres of population.<ref>{{cite book|author=Eugene Charlton Black|title=The Association: British Extraparliamentary Political Organization, 1769-1793|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A1Sw-IZGLJ4C&pg=PA49|year=1963|publisher=Harvard University Press|isbn=978-0-674-05000-6|pages=49–50}}</ref> Both were involved in Yorkshire [[abolitionism]] of the later 1780s.<ref>{{cite book|author=Christopher Leslie Brown|title=Moral Capital: Foundations of British Abolitionism|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TaI--qgb1QcC&pg=PA445|date=1 December 2012|publisher=UNC Press Books|isbn=978-0-8078-3895-2|page=445 note 68}}</ref> Lloyd also corresponded in 1780 with [[Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Christopher Wyvill|title=Political papers, chiefly respecting the attempt of the county of York, and other considerable districts, commenced in 1799 ... to effect a reformation of the parliament of Great-Britain: collected by C. Wyvill|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tSQIAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA1-PR254|year=1794|page=254}}</ref> He kept up his relationship with Wyvill. In 1793, by which time he was in [[Suffolk]], at [[Bury St Edmunds]], he helped circulate Wyvill's ''Letter'' to [[William Pitt the younger]].<ref>{{cite book|author=J. E. Cookson|title=The Friends of Peace: Anti-War Liberalism in England 1793-1815|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Yzg8AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA263|date=21 January 1982|publisher=CUP Archive|pages=263–|id=GGKEY:YWLZ4DKWF40}}</ref> |
Lloyd was mayor of Leeds in 1778–9, and joined the Yorkshire Association in 1780.<ref name="Burke1834"/><ref name="GM"/>[[Christopher Wyvill]], the moderate who had founded the Yorkshire Association, was active at that time in campaigning for electoral reform; and Lloyd offered help in corresponding with provincial centres of population.<ref>{{cite book|author=Eugene Charlton Black|title=The Association: British Extraparliamentary Political Organization, 1769-1793|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A1Sw-IZGLJ4C&pg=PA49|year=1963|publisher=Harvard University Press|isbn=978-0-674-05000-6|pages=49–50}}</ref> Both were involved in Yorkshire [[abolitionism]] of the later 1780s.<ref>{{cite book|author=Christopher Leslie Brown|title=Moral Capital: Foundations of British Abolitionism|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TaI--qgb1QcC&pg=PA445|date=1 December 2012|publisher=UNC Press Books|isbn=978-0-8078-3895-2|page=445 note 68}}</ref> Lloyd also corresponded in 1780 with [[Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Christopher Wyvill|title=Political papers, chiefly respecting the attempt of the county of York, and other considerable districts, commenced in 1799 ... to effect a reformation of the parliament of Great-Britain: collected by C. Wyvill|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tSQIAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA1-PR254|year=1794|page=254}}</ref> He kept up his relationship with Wyvill. In 1793, by which time he was in [[Suffolk]], at [[Bury St Edmunds]], he helped circulate Wyvill's ''Letter'' to [[William Pitt the younger]].<ref>{{cite book|author=J. E. Cookson|title=The Friends of Peace: Anti-War Liberalism in England 1793-1815|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Yzg8AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA263|date=21 January 1982|publisher=CUP Archive|pages=263–|id=GGKEY:YWLZ4DKWF40}}</ref> |
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Revision as of 11:51, 31 January 2017
Gamaliel Lloyd (1744–1817) was an English merchant and political radical, a supporter of the Yorkshire Association.
Life
He was the son of George Lloyd and his wife Susanna(h) Horton, sister of Sir William Horton, 1st Baronet. He was apprenticed to the cloth trade in Leeds. He went into business there in the 1760s on his own account, with the Gautier brothers, and then with Horace Cattaneo in the export trade from 1776. Accumulating a business fortune, he bought Stockton Hall.[1][2][3][4]
Lloyd was mayor of Leeds in 1778–9, and joined the Yorkshire Association in 1780.[2][3]Christopher Wyvill, the moderate who had founded the Yorkshire Association, was active at that time in campaigning for electoral reform; and Lloyd offered help in corresponding with provincial centres of population.[5] Both were involved in Yorkshire abolitionism of the later 1780s.[6] Lloyd also corresponded in 1780 with Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet.[7] He kept up his relationship with Wyvill. In 1793, by which time he was in Suffolk, at Bury St Edmunds, he helped circulate Wyvill's Letter to William Pitt the younger.[8]
Works
Lloyd wrote in Arthur Young's Annals of Agriculture, during the 1790s..[9][10]
Family
Lloyd married Elizabeth Attwood. They had a son, William Horton, and two daughters, Mary Horton, and Anna Susannah who married Leonard Horner.[2]
Notes
- ^ Hollis, III, Daniel Stearne. "Lloyd, Gamaliel". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/39688. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ a b c John Burke (1834). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland Enjoying Territorial Possessions Or High Official Rank, But Uninvested with Heritable Honours. H. Colburn. pp. 244–5.
- ^ a b Sylvanus Urban (1817). The Gentleman's Magazine: and Historical Chronicle. p. 377.
- ^ Richard George Wilson (1971). Gentlemen Merchants: The Merchant Community in Leeds, 1700-1830. Manchester University Press. p. 22. ISBN 978-0-7190-0459-9.
- ^ Eugene Charlton Black (1963). The Association: British Extraparliamentary Political Organization, 1769-1793. Harvard University Press. pp. 49–50. ISBN 978-0-674-05000-6.
- ^ Christopher Leslie Brown (1 December 2012). Moral Capital: Foundations of British Abolitionism. UNC Press Books. p. 445 note 68. ISBN 978-0-8078-3895-2.
- ^ Christopher Wyvill (1794). Political papers, chiefly respecting the attempt of the county of York, and other considerable districts, commenced in 1799 ... to effect a reformation of the parliament of Great-Britain: collected by C. Wyvill. p. 254.
- ^ J. E. Cookson (21 January 1982). The Friends of Peace: Anti-War Liberalism in England 1793-1815. CUP Archive. pp. 263–. GGKEY:YWLZ4DKWF40.
- ^ Arthur Young (1793). Annals of Agriculture and Other Useful Arts. Arthur Young. p. 154.
- ^ Annals of Agriculture and Other Useful Arts. 1796. p. 298.