Thomas Bucknall Lloyd (23 May 1824 - 25 February 1896) was

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from 1886 until his death. Lloyd was the maternal grandson of Samuel Butler, Bishop of Lichfield. He was born at Shrewsbury, eldest son of John Thomas Lloyd of The Stone House, Shrewsbury, and his wife Harriet, Butler's daughter.Under family history 'Lloyd (Baronet)' Lloyd was educated at Shrewsbury and St John's College, Cambridge, graduating with a

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in 1846 and

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in 1849. While at

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he was the

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in the 1846 Boat Race; and was awarded a

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. He was

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deacon by the Bishop of Lichfield in 1848 and priest in 1849 and began his career with a

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, Shropshire. He was the

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from 1851 to 1854; Vicar of St Mary, Shrewsbury and town preacher of Shrewsbury until 1888; and

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, Shropshire until his death. He was Prebendary of Freeford in

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from 1870, Rural Dean of Shrewsbury 1873–87, Chaplain of Berwick near Shrewsbury in 1876–77, and Proctor of the Diocese of Lichfield in 1885–86. He was chaplain to the 1st Shropshire Rifle Volunteers, first chairman of the Shrewsbury Schools Board, chairman of the governors of Shrewsbury School, vice-president of the Shrewsbury School of Science and Art, Chaplain to the Salop Infirmary, member of the council of

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, and vice-president of the Church Mission for the Deaf and Dumb. He married, on 21 August 1849, Sophia Elizabeth (died 1858), eldest daughter of the Reverend Percival Spearman Wilkinson of

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, County Durham. By her he had one son and four daughters. The novelist Samuel Butler was Lloyd's own cousin. In 1857 Lloyd purchased from the latter the mansion of Whitehall in

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, Shrewsbury.Chapter 10: Cherry Orchard, the Growth of a Victorian Suburb. Lloyd died aged 71 at Edgmond rectory, of

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, in February 1896, and was buried on 29 February at the General Cemetery in Longden Road, Shrewsbury, after a funeral service at St Mary's Church in the same town.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Lloyd, Thomas Bucknall 19th-century English Anglican priests 1824 births 1896 deaths Clergy from Shrewsbury Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge Archdeacons of Salop Cambridge University Boat Club rowers People educated at Shrewsbury School