Richard Lloyd (died 1714)
Richard Lloyd (c. 1661 - 1714) was an Anglo-Irish plantation owner and Whig politician who sat in the British House of Commons from 1708 to 1711.
Lloyd was the second son of Owen Lloyd of the Abbey, Boyle, county Roscommon, Ireland, and his wife Elizabeth Fitzgerald, daughter of Richard Fitzgerald. His grandfather was Welsh and settled in Ireland.
In 1689 Lloyd was petitioning for the post of Clerk of the crown and peace for Jamaica and was appointed to the post in 1690. He married Mary Guy, daughter of Richard Guy, planter of Jamaica, on 24 July 1690. In 1691, he became a member of the Jamaican Assembly and came in for criticism from the
Lloyd did not return to Jamaica, but continued to run his Jamaican plantations as an absentee landlord. He was returned as Whig
Lloyd died in 1714, leaving two sons and two daughters.[1] He left substantial estates in Jamaica and Ireland to his eldest son,
References
- ^ a b c d e "LLOYD, Richard (c.1661-1714), of Westminster, Mdx". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 20 July 2019.
- ^ Admissions Register VOL 1 1420-1799. The Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn. 1896.
- ^ Cundall, Frank. (1915) Historic Jamaica. London: Institute of Jamaica. pp. xviii-xix.