Sir Guy Lloyd, 1st Baronet

Who was Sir Guy Lloyd, 1st Baronet?

Sir Ernest Guy Richard Lloyd, 1st Baronet DSO, known as Guy Lloyd, was a Scottish Unionist Party politician. The son of a Shropshire family, a paternal uncle, George Butler Lloyd had been Member of Parliament for Shrewsbury.

Lloyd was born in 1890, son of Major Ernest Thomas Lloyd, formerly of the Bengal Civil Service, and his wife Ethel Mary, second daughter of Sir Richard Dansey Green-Price, 2nd Baronet. He was educated at Rossall School and the United Services College. He attended university at Keble College, Oxford, where he graduated BA in 1913, and MA in 1919 after his interval for military service.

At the start of World War I, he entered the King's Shropshire Light Infantry and served with them through the war, being mentioned in despatches and awarded the DSO in 1917. At the rank of Captain he transferred to the Territorial Army Reserve of Officers in 1919. He was promoted Major in 1929 and became second in command of the 5th Battalion of The Loyal Regiment in 1930. He was re-employed at the start of World War II in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment.