Alexander David Frederick Lloyd, 2nd Baron Lloyd MBE (30 September 1912 – 5 November 1985), was a British

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politician. Lloyd was the only son of

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, and his wife, Blanche Isabella (née Lascelles). He was educated at

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and

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. He was commissioned in the Territorial Army as a second lieutenant in the

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in 1935, rising to captain in 1941. He served in the

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and was appointed an MBE in 1945. He succeeded his father in the barony in 1941 and took his seat on the Conservative benches in the

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. He served under

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(a close political associate of his father) as a

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(government whip in the

) from 1951 to 1952 and as

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from 1952 to 1954, and under Churchill and later

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from 1954 to 1957. He was a Deputy Lieutenant of the county of

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. Lord Lloyd was in business, serving as president of the Commonwealth and British Empire Chambers of Commerce in 1957, a director of

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and of Beehive Insurance, and chairman of the London board of the

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in 1978. Lord Lloyd married Lady Victoria Jean Marjorie Mabell Ogilvy, daughter of

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, in 1942. They had one son and two daughters: * The Hon. Davinia Margaret Lloyd (b. 13 March 1943) * The Hon. Charles George David Lloyd (4 April 1949 – 1974) * The Hon. Laura Blanche Bridget Lloyd (b. 7 March 1960) Lord Lloyd lived at the Clouds Hill Estate, Little Offley, Hitchin. In 1950 Lord Lloyd commissioned

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to design major alterations to the main house, these were completed two years later. Lord Lloyd died in November 1985, aged 73. As his only son had predeceased him, the barony became extinct upon his death.

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