Gamaliel Lloyd

Gamaliel Lloyd (1744-1817) was a prosperous woollen merchant at Bury St Edmunds. He was a Unitarian in religion and a Whig in politics ‘of the old school’, as Crabb Robinson once described him. He was originally from Manchester, but gained most of his wealth from his factory at Leeds, eventually purchasing a country estate in Yorkshire, where he joined Christopher Wyvill’s reformist Yorkshire Association.  He moved to Bury in 1789, though he also maintained at that time a residence in Hampstead, near London. Robinson came to know Lloyd primarily through their mutual friend, Capel Lofft (Lloyd would later distance himself from Lofft's more radical reformist ideas). Lloyd spent his final years at a residence in Great Ormond Street, London.