George Lloyd (scholar)

George Lloyd (1708 – 4 December 1783) was an English Fellow of the Royal Society.

George Lloyd was the son of Gamaliel Lloyd, a merchant and manufacturer in Manchester, and his wife, Sarah.[1] He was born in 1708 and took the degree of M.B. at Queens' College, Cambridge in 1731. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1737, being sponsored as "a gentleman well-skilled in mathematical knowledge and natural philosophy".[2][3] He rented Alkrington Hall from the Lever family before buying Hulme Hall as his residence.[1] Lloyd sold Hulme Hall in 1764 to Francis Egerton, 3rd Duke of Bridgewater, who had to pay a large amount of money to acquire it so that he could continue construction of his eponymous canal.[4]

Lloyd later lived in York and, finally, in Barrowby, near Leeds, where he died on 4 December 1783. He was buried nearby at Swillington.[1]

Lloyd married twice, to Eleanor Wright and to Susannah Horton. With Eleanor he had a son, John, who was later elected FRS as his father had been. With Susannah he had sons called Gamaliel, George and Thomas, and daughters called Anne, Susannah and Elizabeth.[1]

Lloyd was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of the West Riding of Yorkshire in 1779.[1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Burke, John (1847). A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain & Ireland. 1. H. Colburn. pp. 751–752.
  2. ↑ "Lloyd, George (LLT726G)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  3. ↑ "Archive: Past Fellows: George Lloyd". The Royal Society. Retrieved 30 May 2013.
  4. ↑ Malet, Hugh (1977). Bridgewater, the Canal Duke, 1736-1803. Manchester University Press. pp. 80, 98. ISBN 978-0-71900-679-1.
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