Alexander Lloyd, 2nd Baron Lloyd

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Arms of Lloyd of Dolobran, Montgomeryshire, Wales (of which family were the Lloyd Quakers, bankers and steel manufacturers of Birmingham: Azure, a chevron between three cocks argent armed crested and wattled or[1]

Alexander David Frederick Lloyd, 2nd Baron Lloyd MBE (30 September 1912 – 5 November 1985), was a British Conservative politician.

Lloyd was the only son of

Second World War and was appointed an MBE in 1945.[2]

He succeeded his father in the barony in 1941 and took his seat on the Conservative benches in the

Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department from 1952 to 1954, and under Churchill and later Sir Anthony Eden as Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies from 1954 to 1957. He was a Deputy Lieutenant of the county of Hertfordshire.[2]

Lord Lloyd was in business, serving as president of the Commonwealth and British Empire Chambers of Commerce in 1957, a director of Lloyds Bank and of Beehive Insurance, and chairman of the London board of the National Bank of New Zealand in 1978.[2]

Lord Lloyd married Lady Victoria Jean Marjorie Mabell Ogilvy, daughter of David Ogilvy, 12th Earl of Airlie, in 1942. They had one son and two daughters:

  • The Hon. Davinia Margaret Lloyd (b. 13 March 1943)
  • The Hon. Charles George David Lloyd (4 April 1949 – 1974)
  • The Hon. Laura Blanche Bridget Lloyd (b. 7 March 1960)

Lord Lloyd died in November 1985, aged 73. As his only son had predeceased him, the barony became extinct upon his death.

Notes

  1. ^ Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry, 15th Edition, ed. Pirie-Gordon, H., London, 1937, pp.1392-3
  2. ^ .

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Political offices
Preceded by
Sir Hugh Lucas-Tooth
Sir Hugh Lucas-Tooth

1952–1954
Succeeded by
Sir Hugh Lucas-Tooth
The Lord Mancroft
Preceded by Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies
1954–1957
Succeeded by
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Baron Lloyd
1941–1985
Extinct