George Lloyd (scholar)

George Lloyd (1708 – 4 December 1783) was an English Fellow of the Royal Society.

[1][4] Lloyd sold Hulme Hall in 1764 to Francis Egerton, 3rd Duke of Bridgewater, who had to pay a large amount of money to acquire it so that he could continue construction of his eponymous canal.

[5] Lloyd later lived in York and, finally, in Barrowby, near Leeds, where he died on 4 December 1783.

With Eleanor he had a son, John (1735-8 June 1777) of Welcombe House, who was awarded the degree of B.A.

as his father had been (1759; being sponsored as "well qualified...by his skill in Natural & philosophical Knowledge as well as in other parts of usefull Learning").