Gamaliel Lloyd
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 went into the cloth trade in Leeds in the 1760s, with the Gautier brothers, and then with Horace Cattaneo in the export trade from 1776. He was mayor of Leeds in 1778–9, and joined the Yorkshire Association in 1780.[1][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.[4] Lloyd also corresponded in 1780 with Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet.[5] 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.[6]
Works
Lloyd wrote in Arthur Young's Annals of Agriculture, during the 1790s..[7][8]
Family
Lloyd married Elizabeth Attwood. They had a son, William Horton, and two daughters, Mary Horton, and Anna Susannah who married Leonard Horner.[1]
Notes
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ 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 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.