George Lloyd (1708 – 4 December 1783) was an English

Fellow of the Royal Society Fellowship of the Royal Society (FRS, ForMemRS and HonFRS) is an award granted by the Fellows of the Royal Society of London to individuals who have made a "substantial contribution to the improvement of natural science, natural knowledge, incl ...

George Lloyd was the son of Gamaliel Lloyd, a merchant and manufacturer in

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, and his wife, Sarah. He was born in 1708 and took the degree of M.B. at

Queens' College, Cambridge Queens' College is a Colleges of the University of Cambridge, constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Queens' is one of the 16 "old colleges" of the university, and was founded in 1448 by Margaret of Anjou. Its buildings span the R ...

in 1731. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (F.R.S.) in 1737, being sponsored as "a gentleman well-skilled in mathematical knowledge and natural philosophy". He rented

Alkrington Hall Alkrington Garden Village is a suburban area of Middleton, in the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England. Alkrington lies on the northern edge of the city of Manchester with the suburb of Blackley directly to the south. ...

from the Lever family before buying Hulme Hall as his residence. Lloyd sold Hulme Hall in 1764 to

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, who had to pay a large amount of money to acquire it so that he could continue construction of his eponymous canal. Lloyd later lived in

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and, finally, in Barrowby, near

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, where he died on 4 December 1783. He was buried nearby at

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. Lloyd married twice, to Eleanor Wright and to Susannah Horton. With Eleanor he had a son, John (1735-8 June 1777) of Welcombe House, who was awarded the degree of B.A. at Corpus Christi College, Oxford in 1756, and was elected F.R.S. as his father had been (1759; being sponsored as "well qualified...by his skill in Natural & philosophical Knowledge as well as in other parts of usefull Learning"). With Susannah, George had sons called

Gamaliel Gamaliel the Elder (; also spelled Gamliel; ''Rabban Gamlīʾēl hazZāqēn''; ''Gamaliēl ho Presbýteros''), or Rabban Gamaliel I, was a leading authority in the Sanhedrin in the early first century CE. He was the son of Simeon ben Hillel a ...

, George and Thomas, and daughters called Anne, Susannah and Elizabeth. Lloyd was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of the

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in 1779. His son John married Anne Hibbins, daughter of James Hibbins M.D., with whom he had three children, George, John-Gamaliel and Charlotte. Each of George's grandsons, George (1806) and John-Gamaliel (1832), served as

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Lloyd, George Fellows of the Royal Society 1708 births 1783 deaths Alumni of Queens' College, Cambridge Deputy lieutenants of the West Riding of Yorkshire Scientists from Manchester

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