Gamaliel Lloyd

Gamaliel Lloyd (1744–1817) was an English merchant and political reformer, a supporter of the Yorkshire Association.

Gamaliel Lloyd and his son William. William married into the Whitelocke family of Strancally Castle, Ireland.

Life

He was the son of George Lloyd of Hulme Hall and his second wife Susanna(h) Horton, sister of Sir William Horton, 1st Baronet. He was apprenticed to the cloth trade in Leeds. He went into business there in the 1760s on his own account, with the Gautier brothers, and then with Horace Cattaneo in the export trade from 1776. Accumulating a business fortune, he bought Stockton Hall.[1][2][3][4]

Lloyd was mayor of Leeds in 1778–9, was a member of the short-lived Literary and Philosophical Society there, and joined the Yorkshire Association in 1780.[2][3][5] 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.[6] He went door-to-door with a reform petition, accompanied by a fluent speaker of the local Leeds dialect.[7] Both men were involved in Yorkshire abolitionism of the later 1780s.[8] Lloyd also corresponded in 1780 with Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet.[9] 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.[10] In 1797 he attended a talk by Henry Crabb Robinson, on the French Revolution; Robinson's Diary identifies Lloyd as a friend of John Cartwright; it also calls him a "Whig of the old school".[11]

In Suffolk Lloyd came to know Capel Lofft, a more radical figure of the Society for Constitutional Information, to which Lloyd also belonged. Lofft drew the normally reticent Lloyd into a judicial scandal of 1798 concerning jury tampering at the trial of Arthur O'Connor, on the basis of a letter to Lloyd from the Rev. Arthur Young. Lloyd had then already become uncomfortable with Lofft's views. He moved away, to Great Ormond Street, London, where he died on 31 August 1817,[1][12][13][14]

Works

Lloyd wrote in Arthur Young's Annals of Agriculture, during the 1790s.[15][16]

Family

Lloyd married Elizabeth Attwood. They had a son, William Horton, and two daughters, Mary Horton, and Anna Susannah who married Leonard Horner.[2] Stockton Hall passed to the family of Gamaliel's brother George, a barrister. George Lloyd the younger (1787–1863) married into the Greame family.[3][17]

Notes
  1. Hollis, III, Daniel Stearne. "Lloyd, Gamaliel". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/39688. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. 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.
  3. Sylvanus Urban (1817). The Gentleman's Magazine: and Historical Chronicle. p. 377.
  4. Richard George Wilson (1971). Gentlemen Merchants: The Merchant Community in Leeds, 1700-1830. Manchester University Press. p. 22. ISBN 978-0-7190-0459-9.
  5. Albert Edward Musson; Eric Robinson (1969). Science and Technology in the Industrial Revolution. Manchester University Press. p. 159. ISBN 978-0-7190-0370-7.
  6. Eugene Charlton Black (1963). The Association: British Extraparliamentary Political Organization, 1769-1793. Harvard University Press. pp. 49–50. ISBN 978-0-674-05000-6.
  7. John A. Phillips (14 July 2014). Electoral Behavior in Unreformed England: Plumpers, Splitters, and Straights. Princeton University Press. p. 34. ISBN 978-1-4008-5642-8.
  8. Christopher Leslie Brown (1 December 2012). Moral Capital: Foundations of British Abolitionism. UNC Press Books. p. 445 note 68. ISBN 978-0-8078-3895-2.
  9. 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.
  10. J. E. Cookson (21 January 1982). The Friends of Peace: Anti-War Liberalism in England 1793-1815. CUP Archive. pp. 263–. GGKEY:YWLZ4DKWF40.
  11. Henry Crabb Robinson (6 January 2011). Diary, Reminiscences and Correspondence. Cambridge University Press. pp. 40–1. ISBN 978-1-108-02488-4.
  12. Sir Bernard Burke (1863). A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland. Harrison. p. 888.
  13. John Gerow Gazley (1973). The Life of Arthur Young, 1741–1820. American Philosophical Society. pp. 355 and 399. ISBN 978-0-87169-097-5.
  14. Eugene Charlton Black (1963). The Association: British Extraparliamentary Political Organization, 1769-1793. Harvard University Press. p. 287. ISBN 978-0-674-05000-6.
  15. Arthur Young (1793). Annals of Agriculture and Other Useful Arts. Arthur Young. p. 154.
  16. Annals of Agriculture and Other Useful Arts. 1796. p. 298.
  17. "Lloyd-Greame family, of Sewerby University of Hull, University Archives". Retrieved 31 January 2017.
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