Sir Marteine Lloyd, 2nd Baronet

Who was Sir Marteine Lloyd, 2nd Baronet?

Sir Marteine Owen Mowbray Lloyd, 2nd Baronet, was the second of the Lloyd Baronets of Bronwydd, Cardiganshire.

The son of Sir Thomas Lloyd, 1st Baronet, he was educated at Eton College and afterwards by a private tutor. He inherited the Bronwydd estate in 1877, at the age of twenty-six, on the death of his father. The total debt facing the young squire was £100,000, several million in today's terms. While Lloyd made good progress towards paying off these debts, he never entirely succeeded, and the death of his only son and heir, Marteine Arundel Keymes Lloyd at the Battle of the Somme in 1916, rendered the actions a moot point. He married, in 1878, Katherine Helena, daughter of Alexander Dennistoun of Golfhill, Glasgow. As well as a son, the couple had three daughters, Nesta, Peverel and Joan.

Lloyd served as a Justice of the Peace, Deputy Lieutenant of Cardiganshire and was appponted High Sheriff of the county for 1881. In addition, he served as a Master of Fox Hounds.