Wilson Lloyd

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Wilson Lloyd (3 September 1835 – 4 September 1908){{rayment-hc|w|2|date=March 2012}} was a British iron founder and a Conservative Party politician who twice sat in the House of Commons 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 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,[http://www.blackcountrybugle.co.uk/blackcountrybugle-news/displayarticle.asp?id=74898 Black Country Bugle Quaker Lloyd 4 May 2006]

Lloyd became a J.P. and an Alderman. He was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Wednesbury at the 1885 general election,{{London Gazette

|issue= 25541

|date=18 December 1885

|page=6138

|city=London

}} but lost the seat in the 1886 election.{{cite book

|last=Craig

|first=F. W. S.

|author-link= F. W. S. Craig

|title=British parliamentary election results 1885–1918

|orig-year=1974

|edition= 2nd

|year=1989

|publisher= Parliamentary Research Services

|location=Chichester

|isbn= 0-900178-27-2

|page=204

}} He was Wednesbury's second Mayor from 1888 to 1890. At the 1892 general election, he was elected again as MP for Wednesbury,{{London Gazette

|issue= 26311

|date=29 July 1892

|page=4311

|city=London

}} but he did not stand again at the 1895 general election.