Sir Ernest Guy Richard Lloyd, 1st Baronet, DSO (7 August 1890 – 22 September 1987) was a British Unionist politician. Lloyd served as

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for

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from 1940 to 1959. Lloyd was born in 1890, son of Major Ernest Thomas Lloyd (1860–1935), formerly of the

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, and his wife Ethel Mary (died 1961), second daughter of Sir Richard Dansey Green-Price, 2nd

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. Lloyd was born into a

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family: one of his paternal uncles,

George Butler Lloyd George Butler Lloyd (8 January 1854 – 28 March 1930) was a British banker and Conservative Party politician. He was the eldest son of William Butler Lloyd (1825-1874), a banker, of Monkmoor Hall, Shrewsbury, and Preston Montford, Shropshire, a ...

had served as

for

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.His earliest ascertainable Lloyd ancestor lived in Alberbury, Shropshire, in 1583; a son of the latter founded a dynasty based in Shrewsbury. He was educated at

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and the

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.
List of DSO recipients from Haileybury and its constituent colleges. He attended university at

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, where he graduated BA in 1913, and MA in 1919 after his interval for military service. At the start of

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, he entered the

King's Shropshire Light Infantry The King's Shropshire Light Infantry (KSLI) was a light infantry regiment of the British Army, formed in the Childers Reforms of 1881, but with antecedents dating back to 1755. It served in the Second Boer War, World War I and World War II. In 196 ...

and served with them through the war, being

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and awarded the DSO in 1917. At the rank of Captain he transferred to the Territorial Army Reserve of Officers in 1919. He was promoted Major in 1929 and became second in command of the 5th Battalion of The Loyal Regiment in 1930. He was re-employed at the start of

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in the

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. Between the wars he had a career in the textile industry, becoming director of cotton spinners James Chadwick and Brothers in

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, where he moved home, in 1921, leaving the firm when he moved to Scotland in 1931. He was subsequently administrator of J and P Coats Ltd of

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and Paisley, until he retired in 1938, and director of its subsidiary companies. Lloyd, who had served as a Town Councillor in Bolton from 1923 to 1931, became

(MP) for

at a by-election in May 1940, and held the seat until he stood down at the 1959 general election. He was also a DL for

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, a county in which he made his home, in 1953. He was

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in 1953 and made a baronet on 23 July 1960, of Rhu in the county of

.London Gazette Issue 42051 published on 3 June 1960. Page 1 of 36 He married in 1918 Helen Kynaston, daughter of Colonel E.W. Greig of Northcliffe Hall, Styal,

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, and by her had one son and four daughters. She predeceased him in 1984. He died in September 1987, aged 97, when his son succeeded to his baronetcy.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Lloyd, Guy 1890 births 1987 deaths Unionist Party (Scotland) MPs Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom King's Shropshire Light Infantry officers Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Scottish constituencies UK MPs 1935–1945 UK MPs 1945–1950 UK MPs 1950–1951 UK MPs 1951–1955 UK MPs 1955–1959 Companions of the Distinguished Service Order Loyal Regiment officers Royal Warwickshire Fusiliers officers British Army personnel of World War I British Army personnel of World War II