John Charles Lloyd (1818 – 23 January 1881) was an English-born Australian politician. He was born at

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to army officer John Lloyd and Mary Evans. He migrated to

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in 1841 and managed property in the

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district. Around 1855 he married Eleanora Sparks, with whom he had fourteen children. He acquired land in the Liverpool Plains, and visited England in 1864. In 1864 he was elected to the

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for

, serving until his retirement in 1869. He was bankrupted in 1871. Lloyd died at The Myalls near

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in 1881.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Lloyd, John 1818 births 1881 deaths Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly 19th-century Australian politicians