LLOYD
,
Sir
THOMAS DAVIES
(
1820
-
1877
),
baronet, landowner, and politician
;
b.
21 May 1820
, eldest son of
Thomas
Lloyd
of
Bronwydd, Cards.
(
high sheriff
in
1814
), by
Anne
Davies
, daughter of
John
Thomas
of
Llwydcoed
and
Llety-mawr, Carms.
He was educated at
Harrow
and
Christ Church
,
Oxford
. He m.,
Dec. 1846
,
Henrietta Mary
, daughter of
George
Reid
of
Bunker's Hill
,
Jamaica
, and
Watlington, Oxon.
, by
Louisa
, daughter of
Sir
Charles
Oakeley
,
bart
. In
1840
he joined the
13th Light Dragoons
, and later served in
Canada
with the
82nd Foot
, commanding a detachment at
Ottawa
. He was appointed
D.L.
for
Cardiganshire
and
Carmarthenshire
in
1847
and served as
high sheriff
for
Cardiganshire
in
1851
, being created a
baronet
21 Jan. 1863
.
Sir
Thomas
served as
Liberal member of parliament
for
Cardiganshire
,
1868-74
, and d. in
London
on
21 July 1877
. As the
23rd lord in continuous succession of the barony of Cemais
he claimed and exercised the right as a ‘
lord marcher
’ to appoint annually under his seal the mayor of
Newport, Pembs.
Bibliography:
-
Burke's … Peerage, Baronetage, and
Knightage
;
-
W. R. Williams
,
The History of the Parliamentary
Representation of Wales
, 1895
;
-
J. R. Phillips
,
A list of the sheriffs of Cardiganshire,
from A.D. 1539 to A.D. 1868 with genealogical and
historical notes
, Carmarthen, 1868
;
-
Annals and Antiquities of the Counties and
County Families of Wales
.
Author:
Major Herbert Johnes Lloyd-Johnes, F.S.A., (1900-83), Monmouth /
Cirencester
