Gamaliel Lloyd

Gamaliel Lloyd (1744–1817) was an English merchant and political reformer, a supporter of the Yorkshire Association.

[1][2][3][4] Lloyd was mayor of Leeds in 1778–9, was a member of the short-lived Literary and Philosophical Society there, and joined the Yorkshire Association in 1780.

[2][3][5] Christopher Wyvill, the moderate who had founded the Yorkshire Association, was active at that time in campaigning for electoral reform; and Lloyd offered help in corresponding with provincial centres of population.

In 1793, by which time he was in Suffolk, at Bury St Edmunds, he helped circulate Wyvill's Letter to William Pitt the younger.

He moved away, to Great Ormond Street, London, where he died on 31 August 1817,[1][12][13][14] Lloyd wrote in Arthur Young's Annals of Agriculture, during the 1790s.