Described by Sidney and Beatrice Webb as one of "the more thoughtful working-men leaders"[1] and referred to by Karl Marx as "The Tailor", he was a friend, supporter and biographer of Robert Owen (his The Life and Times of Robert Owen was published posthumously in 1889) and aided Samuel Plimsoll in his campaign to improve safety at sea.

When there was some expectation of another Peterloo Massacre, Lloyd Jones, like many thousands of others in the North, provided himself with arms, with a view to active resistance.

[4] He was later appointed a member of the first Parliamentary Committee of the Trades Union Congress and was the first secretary of the Labour Representation League.

Lloyd Jones was born into an Irish family of Welsh immigrant ancestry but, in 1837, dropped his forename, Patrick, as a way of distancing himself from his father who had converted to Catholicism in the Protestant town of Bandon.

"[8]From 1837, until his death, Lloyd Jones was officially connected with the co-operative movement and had a chief part in its organization and development.

He largely contributed to political and co-operative journalism editing periodicals in Leeds and London as well as writing many pamphlets.

His name is listed at the base of the Reformers Memorial in Kensal Green Cemetery in London and is one of the few with additional comments.