George Lloyd (scholar)
George Lloyd (1708 – 4 December 1783) was an English Fellow of the Royal Society.
George Lloyd was the son of Gamaliel Lloyd, a merchant and manufacturer in Manchester, and his wife, Sarah.[1] He was born in 1708 and took the degree of M.B. at Queens' College, Cambridge in 1731. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1737, being sponsored as "a gentleman well-skilled in mathematical knowledge and natural philosophy".[2][3] He rented Alkrington Hall from the Lever family before buying Hulme Hall as his residence.[1] Lloyd sold Hulme Hall in 1764 to Francis Egerton, 3rd Duke of Bridgewater, who had to pay a large amount of money to acquire it so that he could continue construction of his eponymous canal.[4]
Lloyd later lived in York and, finally, in Barrowby, near Leeds, where he died on 4 December 1783. He was buried nearby at Swillington.[1]
Lloyd married twice, to Eleanor Wright and to Susannah Horton. With Eleanor he had a son, John, who was later elected FRS as his father had been. With Susannah he had sons called Gamaliel, George and Thomas, and daughters called Anne, Susannah and Elizabeth.[1]
Lloyd was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of the West Riding of Yorkshire in 1779.[1]
