Lloyd family (Birmingham)

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The Lloyd family of Birmingham was a prominent Welsh Quaker family who migrated in the seventeenth century to Birmingham, England, from Dolobran Hall near Meifod, Powys (previously in Montgomeryshire),{{cite web|url=http://isys.llgc.org.uk/isysnative/QzpcSVNZUzZcQVJDSElGQVVcRG9sb2JyYW4uZG9j/Dolobran.doc |title=Deeds relating to the Lloyd family and to the Dolobran estate |work=National Library of Wales|accessdate=23 November 2014}} Wales. The family were involved in manufacturing and in the establishment of Lloyds Bank.{{cite book|last1=Lloyd|first1=Samuel|title=The Lloyds of Birmingham|date=1907|publisher=Cornish Brothers|url=https://archive.org/stream/lloydsofbirmingh00lloyuoft/lloydsofbirmingh00lloyuoft_djvu.txt}} The principal residence of the senior branch of the Birmingham family was Farm, Bordesley.

At the outbreak of the First World War Gertrude and John Henry Lloyd had four sons of military age:{{cite book|last1=Roberts|first1=Sian|title=Great war britain birmingham : remembering 1914-18.|date=2014|publisher=The History Press Ltd|location=[S.l.]|isbn=978-0-7509-5969-8|pages=112}}

• Alan Scrivener Lloyd who enlisted in the Royal Field Artillery and was killed on 4 August 1916 at Ypres.
• Ronald Lloyd joined the Friends' Ambulance Unit in 1914, but following Alan's death enlisted in the Royal Field Artillery.
• Eric Lloyd joined the Friends Ambulance Unit in 1914 and enlisted in the Navy in 1916.
• Gerald Lloyd was a Conscientious Objector and undertook alternative civilian service with the YMCA.