Wilson Lloyd (3 September 1835 – 4 September 1908) was a British iron founder and a Conservative Party politician who twice sat in the

House of Commons The House of Commons is the name for the elected lower house of the Bicameralism, bicameral parliaments of the United Kingdom and Canada. In both of these countries, the Commons holds much more legislative power than the nominally upper house of ...

between 1885 and 1895. Lloyd was the son of Samuel Lloyd (1795-1862), known as " Quaker Lloyd", and his wife Mary Honychurch. His father had developed the Old Park Ironworks at

Wednesbury Wednesbury ( ) is a market town in the Sandwell district, in the county of the West Midlands (county), West Midlands, England; it was historically in Staffordshire. It is located near the source of the River Tame, West Midlands, River Tame and ...

and by the mid-19th century, Messrs. Lloyds Foster and Co. was the town's leading ironworks, employing 1200 men. The family sold the Ironworks in 1867,Black Country Bugle ''Quaker Lloyd'' 4 May 2006
/ref> Lloyd became a J.P. and an Alderman. He was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for

at the 1885 general election, but lost the seat in the 1886 election. He was Wednesbury's second Mayor from 1888 to 1890. At the 1892 general election, he was elected again as MP for Wednesbury, but he did not stand again at the 1895 general election.

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* 1835 births 1908 deaths Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1885–1886 UK MPs 1892–1895 Mayors of places in the West Midlands (county) Politics of Sandwell People from Wednesbury {{England-Conservative-UK-MP-1830s-stub