Guy Lloyd

Sir Ernest Guy Richard Lloyd, 1st Baronet, DSO (7 August 1890 – 22 September 1987) was a British Unionist politician. Lloyd served as Member of Parliament for East Renfrewshire from 1940 to 1959. Lloyd was born in 1890, son of Major Ernest Thomas Lloyd (1860–1935), formerly of the Bengal Civil Service, and his wife Ethel Mary (died 1961), second daughter of Sir Richard Dansey Green-Price, 2nd Baronet. Lloyd was born into a Shropshire family: one of his paternal uncles, George Butler Lloyd had served as Member of Parliament for Shrewsbury. He was educated at Rossall School and the United Services College. He attended university at Keble College, Oxford, where he graduated BA in 1913, and MA in 1919 after his interval for military service. At the start of World War I, he entered the King's Shropshire Light Infantry and served with them through the war, being mentioned in despatches 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 World War II in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment. Between the wars he had a career in the textile industry, becoming director of cotton spinners James Chadwick and Brothers in Bolton, Lancashire, 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 Glasgow and Paisley, until he retired in 1938, and director of its subsidiary companies.