George Kirwan Carr (17 June 1810 – 15 June 1877), who changed his surname to Carr Lloyd in 1855, was an English

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and

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landowner.

Family and education

Carr Lloyd was born in

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on 17 June 1810, the youngest son of the Reverend

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, then vicar of Brighton, and his wife Nancy. He was educated at

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, and matriculated at

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in 1828. He was first married on 15 November 1841 to Caroline, daughter of Sir Michael Seymour , and they had two daughters before she died on 10 September 1843. He was next married on 12 April 1847 to Jane, daughter of John Watson, and they had two daughters and two sons. She died on 27 December 1896.

Career

After serving as a regular officer in the

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and

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, he lived in Sussex where he served as a militia officer, being appointed the first Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant of the

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on 26 April 1853. He entered the banking business, becoming a partner in the Brighton Union Bank, later absorbed into

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. In 1858 his aunt Elizabeth, widow of Sir James Lloyd , left him the estate of Lancing and in 1869 he was chosen as

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Legacy

Depressed after the death of his brother-in-law Thomas Baker, rector of

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, he shot himself at his country house of Lancing Manor, dying there on 15 June 1877. The estate was inherited by his only surviving son, James Martin Carr Lloyd.

References

*A P Baggs, C R J Currie, C R Elrington, S M Keeling and A M Rowland, 'Lancing,' in A History of the County of Sussex: Volume 6 Part 1, Bramber Rape (Southern Part), ed. T P Hudson (London: Victoria County History, 1980), 34–53, accessed 9 September 2015, http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/sussex/vol6/pt1/pp34-53 *The county families of the United Kingdom; or, Royal manual of the titled and untitled aristocracy of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland .. (ed.49, 1909) accessed 9 September 2015, http://www.mocavo.com/ *A genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry of Great Britain & Ireland (Volume 2) accessed 9 September 2015, http://www.mocavo.com/ 1810 births 1877 deaths People educated at Eton College Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford Rifle Brigade officers High sheriffs of Sussex Royal Artillery officers Sussex Militia officers Military personnel from Brighton People from Lancing, West Sussex {{UK-army-bio-stub