John Horatio Lloyd (1 September 1798 – 17 July 1884) was an English barrister and Liberal MP for Stockport from 1832 to 1835. [1]
He was born the son of John Lloyd, attorney and Town Clerk of Stockport, and Mary Lott.
He was educated at Stockport Grammar School and Queen's College, Oxford. In 1823 he was made a fellow of both Queen's College, Oxford and Brasenose College, Oxford. [2]
He went up to London and was called to the Bar at the Inner Temple in 1826. In conjunction with William Newland Welsby he published in three parts "Reports of Mercantile Cases in the Courts of Common Law" in 1829 and 1830.
In 1832 he entered Parliament as Liberal MP for Stockport, following the passing of the Reform Bill, and held the seat until 1835.
After a period in Athens working for the Ionian Bank, he returned to England and his legal practice became very successful, particularly in regards to investments in railways, for which is developed the Lloyd's Bond. He became one of the directors of the London Pneumatic Despatch Company.
In his will, he bequeathed the sum of £92,000, [3] (equivalent to £9,804,500in 2020). [4]
He married Caroline Holland Watson, daughter of Major Holland Watson of the Stockport Volunteer Corps, on 7 September 1826. [5]
They had the following children
Mary Russell Mitford was an English author and dramatist. She was born at Alresford in Hampshire. She is best known for Our Village, a series of sketches of village scenes and vividly drawn characters based upon her life in Three Mile Cross near Reading in Berkshire.
Henry Labouchere, 1st Baron Taunton, PC was a prominent British Whig and Liberal Party politician of the mid-19th century.
William Saunders Sebright Lascelles PC was a British Whig politician. He served as Comptroller of the Household from 1847 to 1851.
Sir George Hayter was a notable English painter, specialising in portraits and large works involving in some cases several hundred individual portraits. Queen Victoria appreciated his merits and appointed Hayter her Principal Painter in Ordinary and also awarded him a Knighthood 1841.
William Bingham Baring, 2nd Baron Ashburton, was a British businessman and a Whig politician who later became a Tory.
Thomas Nelson, 2nd Earl Nelson, born Thomas Bolton, was the 2nd Earl Nelson.
Sir George Warrender of Lochend, 4th Baronet, PC, FRS, FRSE was a Scottish politician. In 1799, he succeeded to his father's baronetcy. Due to his lifestyle, he was nicknamed Sir Gorge Provender.
The following is a list of the published works of Mary Martha Sherwood. Because it relies on M. Nancy Cutt's annotated bibliography of Sherwood's books in Mrs. Sherwood and her Books for Children, this list does not include her many periodical articles, such as those she wrote for The Youth's Magazine. The list follows Cutt's generic divisions.
Richard William Penn Curzon-Howe, 1st Earl Howe,, was a British peer and courtier.
Sir Charles Wetherell was an English lawyer, politician and judge.
Colonel Standish Darby O'Grady, 2nd Viscount Guillamore from Cahir Guillamore, County Limerick, was an Anglo-Irish politician and British Army officer.
Samuel Trehawke Kekewich was an English Tory and later Conservative Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1826 to 1830 and from 1858 to 1873.
The Honourable Richard Watson was a British Whig politician who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Canterbury from 1830 to 1835 and briefly in 1852 for Peterborough.
George Watson-Taylor, of Saul's River, Jamaica, was the fourth son of George Watson. From 1810 he was the husband of Anna Susana Taylor, the daughter of Jamaican planter Sir John Taylor, 1st Baronet, and heiress of her brother Sir Simon Richard Brissett Taylor, 2nd baronet. Suffixing his name with that of his wife's family, he would become the richest planter on Jamaica. He used the proceeds to purchase Cavendish Square, Middlesex and Erlestoke Park, near Devizes, Wiltshire, becoming the Liberal MP for Devizes, an ardent campaigner for the retention of slavery, and a renowned fine art collector. Following the abolition of slavery his finances collapsed, and he died on 6 June 1841, in Edinburgh.
Lord Edward Thynne was an English nobleman. After a short career as an army officer, he sat in the House of Commons for two periods, separated by 26 years, and opposed parliamentary reform on both occasions.
Sir Richard Musgrave, 3rd Baronet was an Irish baronet and politician.
Horace Lloyd QC was an English barrister.
William Thompson was an English businessman who was Lord Mayor of London and Member of Parliament.
George Barrington, 5th Viscount Barrington, was a British minister and aristocrat.
Robert Bullock Marsham was an English academic, Warden of Merton College, Oxford for 54 years.