Charles Lloyd (22 August 1748 – 16 January 1828) was an English banker, philanthropist, Quaker preacher and abolitionist.
Born in Birmingham on 22 August 1748, Lloyd was the second son of Sampson Lloyd, Quaker manufacturer and banker, a member of the Society of Friends, by his second wife, Rachel, daughter of Nehemiah Champion III of Bristol.
Lloyd was educated at a school run by Ephraim Goodere, and then began work in his father's counting-house.
Lloyd was a pioneer abolitionist working for the emancipation of the West Indian slaves, a supporter of the Bible Society and of non-sectarian education, and one of the founders of the Birmingham General Hospital.
[1] Another daughter, Anna Braithwaite, was a Quaker preacher who toured Britain, Ireland and the United States several times.