Richard Savage Lloyd (c.1730–1810), of

Hintlesham Hall Hintlesham is a small village in Suffolk, England, situated roughly halfway between Ipswich and Hadleigh. It is in the Belstead Brook electoral division of Suffolk County Council. The village is notable for Hintlesham Hall, a 16th-century Gr ...

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, was a British landowner and Member of Parliament. He was the eldest son of Sir Richard Lloyd of Hintlesham, lawyer and solicitor-general and was educated at

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(1742–48) and St. John’s College, Cambridge. Like his father before him, he then entered the

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to study law. He succeeded his father in 1761 to Hintlesham Hall, now a

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. He sat in the

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from 1759 to 1768 as a Member of Parliament (MP) for

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. He married and had 2 sons and 2 daughters and was succeeded by Richard Savage Lloyd, jnr.

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1730s births 1810 deaths People from Babergh District People educated at Eton College Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge Members of the Middle Temple Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for Totnes British MPs 1754–1761 British MPs 1761–1768 {{England-GreatBritain-MP-stub