George Lloyd was the son of Gamaliel Lloyd, a merchant and manufacturer in Manchester, and his wife, Sarah.[1] He was born in 1708 and took the degree of M.B. at Queens' College, Cambridge 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".[2][3] He rented Alkrington Hall from the Lever family before buying Hulme Hall as his residence.[1][4] Lloyd sold Hulme Hall in 1764 to Francis Egerton, 3rd Duke of Bridgewater, who had to pay a large amount of money to acquire it so that he could continue construction of his eponymous canal.[5]
Lloyd later lived in York and, finally, in Barrowby, near Leeds, where he died on 4 December 1783. He was buried nearby at Swillington.[1]
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").[6] With Susannah, George had sons called Gamaliel, George and Thomas, and daughters called Anne, Susannah and Elizabeth.[1]
Lloyd was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of the West Riding of Yorkshire in 1779.[1] 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 High Sheriff of Warwickshire.
