:David Lloyd (judge)

Lloyd was born in 1656 in the parish of Manafon, Montgomeryshire, Wales. He was educated at a grammar school.{{cite ODNB|id=68177|first=Mary K.|last=Geiter|title=Lloyd, David}}

Lloyd converted to Quakerism in 1691.{{cite journal|last1=Burton|first1=Alva Konkle|title=David Lloyd and Chester|journal=Bulletin of Friends' Historical Association|date=Autumn 1932|volume=21|issue=2 |pages=71–74|doi=10.1353/qkh.1932.a404465 |s2cid=174642069 |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/404465/summary|access-date=4 February 2018|url-access=subscription}}

Lloyd was twice married. He married his second wife, Grace Growden in 1703. Together they had a son who died at an early age in 1731 due to an accident.{{cite book|last1=Ashmead|first1=Henry Graham|title=History of Delaware County, Pennsylvania|date=1884|publisher=L.H. Everts & Co.|location=Philadelphia|page=[https://archive.org/details/cu31924006215655/page/n410 355]|url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924006215655|access-date=4 February 2018}}

David Lloyd may have been the cousin of Thomas Lloyd, lieutenant governor of the Province of Pennsylvania.{{cite book|last1=Penney|first1=Norman|title=The Journal of the Friends' Historical Society, Volumes 3-4|date=1906|publisher=Headley Brothers|page=47|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7vQNAQAAIAAJ&q=david+lloyd+attorney+general&pg=PA50|access-date=4 February 2018}}

Lloyd studied law under George Jeffreys. In 1686 he was sent by William Penn to the Province of Pennsylvania and served as Attorney General of the province from 1686 until 1710. Lloyd designed Pennsylvania's first judicial system.{{cite web|title=History of the Office of Attorney General|url=https://www.attorneygeneral.gov/the_office/history_of_the_office_of_attorney_general/|website=www.attorneygeneral.gov|access-date=4 February 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170727155251/https://www.attorneygeneral.gov/The_Office/History_of_the_Office_of_Attorney_General/|archive-date=27 July 2017|url-status=dead}}

He became successively clerk of the county court of Philadelphia, deputy to the master of the rolls, and clerk of the provincial court.

In 1689, Lloyd was clerk of the County Courts and found himself in difficulties with the council when he refused to produce the records of the court to the council.

In 1698, probably as a punishment for the conflict with the council, he was removed as Attorney General and replaced by John Moore.{{cite book|title=The Twentieth Century Bench and Bar of Pennsylvania, Volume 2|date=1903|publisher=H.C. Cooper, Jr., Bro. & Co.|location=Chicago|page=1056|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JkRGAQAAMAAJ&q=david+lloyd+attorney+general&pg=PA1056|access-date=4 February 2018}}

Penn's Frame of 1701 (Charter of Privileges) caused disagreement between Lloyd and Penn. There was disagreement over interpretation if the Charter gave control of the province to the assembly or the proprietor (governor). James Logan, Penn's loyal secretary, believed the Proprietor to be the center of power and mobilized those who agreed with him into the Proprietary party. Lloyd believed the assembly to be the center of provincial power, became the leader of the Popular party and fought for thirty years to make his viewpoint a reality.{{cite book|last1=Klein|first1=Philip S.|title=History of Pennsylvania|date=1973|publisher=The Pennsylvania State University Press|location=University Park and London|isbn=0-271-01934-4|page=50|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AB24rFZOmzcC&q=david+lloyd+pennsylvania&pg=PA50|access-date=4 February 2018}}

He was a member of the Pennsylvania General Assembly for 23 years between 1693 and 1728, representing at various times Chester County, Philadelphia County, and the City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. For thirteen of those years, he served as Speaker.{{cite book|last1=Penney|first1=Norman|title=The Journal of the Friends' Historical Society, Volumes 3-4|date=1906|publisher=Headley Brothers|page=51|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7vQNAQAAIAAJ&q=david+lloyd+attorney+general&pg=PA50|access-date=4 February 2018}} He also served for five years as a member of the provincial council. In 1702, he was appointed advocate to the Court of Admiralty.{{cite book|last1=Ashmead|first1=Henry Graham|title=Historical Sketch of Chester, on Delaware|date=1883|publisher=Republican Steam Printing House|location=Chester, PA|page=[https://archive.org/details/historicalsketch00ashm_0/page/111 111]|url=https://archive.org/details/historicalsketch00ashm_0|access-date=5 May 2018}}

In 1718, Lloyd was appointed Chief Justice of the province by Governor William Keith. During the final years of his life, his mental capacity diminished and a few months before his death the council declared that he was mentally unfit to serve. His death came before he was removed from office.

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In 1689, Lloyd purchased a large tract of land in Chester part of which was used as a commons. In 1690, Lloyd secured permission to lay out a street along the line of the current Second Street from Chester Creek to his property. This transaction made him many enemies.{{cite book|last1=Penney|first1=Norman|title=The Journal of the Friends' Historical Society, Volumes 3-4|date=1906|publisher=Headley Brothers|page=49|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7vQNAQAAIAAJ&q=david+lloyd+attorney+general&pg=PA50|access-date=4 February 2018}} He began living in Chester in 1700 on the land he named "Green Bank".{{cite book|last1=Martin|first1=John Hill|title=Chester (and Its Vicinity,) Delaware County, in Pennsylvania|date=1877|publisher=Wm. H. Pile & Sons|location=Philadelphia|page=81|isbn=9785871484241 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5Kg-AAAAYAAJ&q=david+lloyd+chester+pennsylvania&pg=PA88|access-date=4 February 2018}}

In 1721, Lloyd built a grand house which in subsequent years became the property of Commodore David Porter and became known as the Porter House.{{cite web|title=History of Chester, PA|url=http://www.oldchesterpa.com/broomall_history.htm|website=www.oldchesterpa.com|access-date=3 February 2018}} The house became the location of Jackson's Pyrotechnic Manufactory and on the evening of February 17, 1882 caught fire and a large stock of fireworks exploded, destroying the home, killing eighteen people and wounding fifty-seven other.{{cite book|last1=Smith|first1=H.V.|title=Chester and Vicinity|publisher=H. V. Smith|date=1914|location=Chester, Pennsylvania|page=[https://archive.org/details/chestervicinity00smit/page/18 18]|url=https://archive.org/details/chestervicinity00smit|access-date=2 March 2018}}

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Lloyd died April 6, 1731, in Chester, Pennsylvania and is interred at old St. Paul's Church burial ground.{{cite web|title=St. Paul's Burying Ground|url=http://www.oldchesterpa.com/cemeteries/stpcemetery.htm|website=www.oldchesterpa.com|access-date=31 December 2017}} Lloyd and his wife Grace were originally interred at the Quaker burial ground in Chester,{{cite book|last1=Ashmead|first1=Henry Graham|title=History of Delaware County, Pennsylvania|date=1884|publisher=L.H. Everts & Co.|location=Philadelphia|page=[https://archive.org/details/cu31924006215655/page/n387 336]|url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924006215655|access-date=3 February 2018}} but were moved to St. Paul's after the Quaker burial ground was removed to make way for new development in October 1959.{{cite web|title=St. Paul's Episcopal Church|url=http://www.oldchesterpa.com/churches/st_paul.htm|website=www.oldchesterpa.com|access-date=31 December 2017}}

Lloyd street in Chester, Pennsylvania is named after Lloyd.{{cite book|title=Proceedings of the Delaware County Historical Society, Volume 1|date=1902|publisher=Delaware County Historical Society|location=Chester, Pennsylvania|page=59|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BdPTAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA59|access-date=14 April 2018}}

Abel Morgan's Welsh concordance was dedicated to Lloyd.

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