George 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, and his wife Jane Amelia, who was fifth daughter of the Reverend George Hunt of Wadenhoe, Northamptonshire, and sister of George Ward Hunt, who became a cabinet minister under Benjamin Disraeli. He was born at Monkmoor Hall in 1854, and was educated at Marlborough College and St John's College, Cambridge. He entered his family's banking firm of Burton, Lloyd and Company which in 1886 became absorbed by another Shrewsbury bank, Rocke, Eyton and Company to form Eyton, Burton, Lloyd and Company, also known as the Salop Old Bank, of which Lloyd became Senior Partner. In 1907, it was bought by the Capital and Counties Bank, which made him a director. In turn this was taken over in 1918 by Lloyds Bank Limited, which also made him director.