Guy Lloyd

Sir Ernest Guy Richard Lloyd, 1st Baronet, DSO (7 August 1890 – 22 September 1987) was a British Unionist politician.

Lloyd was born in 1890, son of Major Ernest Thomas Lloyd (1860–1935), formerly of the Bengal Civil Service, and his wife Ethel Mary (died 1961), second daughter of Sir Richard Dansey Green-Price, 2nd Baronet.

[2] He attended university at Keble College, Oxford, where he graduated BA in 1913, and MA in 1919 after his interval for military service.

He was subsequently administrator of J and P Coats Ltd of Glasgow and Paisley, until he retired in 1938,[4] and director of its subsidiary companies.

[1] Lloyd, who had served as a Town Councillor in Bolton from 1923 to 1931,[1] became Member of Parliament (MP) for East Renfrewshire at a by-election in May 1940, and held the seat until he stood down at the 1959 general election.