David Llewellyn Lloyd (1910-1996) was an English pilot, deer-stalker, ballistician, and sporting rifle maker, of Northamptonshire, England, and Glencassley Estate in Sutherland, Scotland.
Although Lloyd had no formal training as a riflemaker, he employed a team of craftsmen from the London & provincial trade to build the rifles in the workshops at Pipewell Hall.
Lloyd developed the distinctive Lloyd rifle concept, and from the 1960s to the mid-1990s he built magazine-fed sporting rifles based on commercial Mauser 98 & Sako actions with distinctively integral scope sights, capable of dependably high accuracy at long ranges, and of handling modern high-intensity, flat shooting cartridges such as the .244 H&H, the .264 Winchester Magnum and the .25-06 Remington.
In his deer-stalking career of over 60 years, Lloyd killed more than 5,000 Scottish highland red deer stags, the vast majority of them with rifles built by his company.
On Lloyd's death in 1996, she took on the business, which by then was doing little trade, and ran it until she died in 2003 when the company was sold to John Shirley, formerly Technical Manager with James Purdey and Sons of London.