Person:Edward Lloyd (36)

Vol 1, pp 164-176 -
EDWARD LLOYD (III) THE COUNCILLOR 1711-1770
The third son of Edward Lloyd (II) the President, and of Sarah Covington the Quakeress, was Edward Lloyd (III) who may be distinguished by the agnomen, the Councillor, because of his having held a seat in the Governor's Council for a great number of years. He was born May 8th, 1711, probably at Wye House, the plantation of his father. Of his education, academic and professional, nothing whatever is known. He may have been a pupil at King William's School at Annapolis, in flourishing condition during his minority, and then sent to England, in conformity with the custom of wealthy planters, for the completion of his studies. As his father died when he was in early youth, and as his mother soon married Mr. James Hollyday, an accompHshed gentleman and distinguished lawyer, his education was doubtless directed by him; and it is very probable, under the same capable man, he acquired that knowledge of the law which qualified him for the efficient discharge of those duties to which he was called at an early period of his life and in which he was engaged almost to the day of his death.

Upon reaching his majority and coming into possession of his estate he engaged actively in planting, and from a letter of Henry Callister, still extant, dated Aug. 5th, 1747, it is probable he made ventures in trade or commerce,[see text for footnote] as was not unusual with large proprietors. It is to be inferred that as the wealth of the family continued to augment that the agricultural as well as the commercial enterprises of Colonel Lloyd, for he too was the recipient of such provincial titles as the Proprietary was justified in bestowing, and such as he might claim by a kind of hereditary privilege, were prosecuted with success. From whatsoever source derived his pecuniary means were such as enabled him to maintain a style of living suitable to the dignified position which he held in the colony, for the maintenance of which his official compensation was inadequate.

At an election held Dec. 15th, 1737, Mr. Edward Lloyd (III) was chosen one of the Delegates from Talbot County to the General Assembly having as his coadjutors elected at the same time, Mr. Nicholas Goldsborough, Mr. Wilham Thomas, Jr. and Mr. Robert Lloyd.^" He held his seat in the Lower House until 1740, when he was called by Governor Samuel Ogle to be one of the Honorable Council of Maryland, of which body Col. Matthew Tilghman Ward was President and Hon. Samuel Chamberlaine was a member, both of Talbot county and kinsman of Mr. Lloyd. Mr. James Hollyday, the husband of Mr. Lloyd's mother, and formerly of the same county, was also a member. This statement will serve to show how nearly certain families monopolized the offices and gave to the government of the Province something of the character of an oligarchy. ...

Vol 1, pp 175-176 -
... The Lloyds of Wye, after Edward (I) the Puritan, seem to have taken little interest in religion, with the exception of the subject of this memoir, and his interest seems to have been slight. Since his time they have had no part in the administration of the church temporalities, and religion with them has been a matter of purely personal concern. [Maryland Gazette, 7 Apr 1768] Perhaps this is attributable to the survival of an ancestral prejudice against popery and prelacy, of which they themselves are hardly conscious. We know that Col. Lloyd (III) was not well affected towards Roman Catholics, but this feeling, if it had not a political origin, was strengthened by a suspicion of disloyalty in the people of this faith. However this may be, no Lloyd of Wye was vestryman, or other church officer, no Lloyd of Wye contributed for church building or other uses, aside from the legal assessment, until the year 1734, when for the first time the name of Edward Lloyd (III) appears in the list of vestrymen of St. Michaels parish, where it remained during the two following years. Then for thirty years no mention is made of him in the church records either as church officer or even as contributor to church funds; but in 1766 he was again elected vestryman and was continued in this office the following year. ...

... Col. Lloyd (III) married March 26, 1739, Miss Ann Rousby, of Patuxent, by whom he had these children:
- Elisabeth, who became the wife on General Cadwallader of Philadelphia;
- Henrietta Maria, who merely perpetuated the name of that excellent lady, her grandmother, and died unmarried;
- Edward (IIII) who became master of Wye House, and married Miss Elisabeth Tayloe of Virginia, the mother of Edward Lloyd, the Revolutionary patriot; and
- Richard Bennett, who, going to England, became a Captain in the Coldstream Guards, and married a celebrated beauty, Joanna Leigh of North Court, Isle of Wight, England. ...

... Col. Lloyd died Jan. 27th, 1770, and was interred at Wye House, where a tomb is erected to his memory bearing this inscription:
Here lie interred
the remains of the Hon. Col.
Edward Lloyd, who departed this life
the 27th of January 1770*
aged 59 years.

[*Another record of his death, apparently authentic, gives the date of his demise as Feb. 8th, 1770. The change from the old to the new style may account for this discrepancy of eleven days.]

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LLOYD, EDWARD, Talbot Co. 6 Mar, 1750; 26 Mar, 1770
Children: Elizabeth, Henrietta Maria (dec'd), Edward, Richard Bennett Lloyd.
Mentioned: Rev. John Gordon, Ralph Elston, tutor of little son Edward.
Bros.-in-law: Abraham Barnes and Robert Jenkins Henry.
Mentioned: Estates left me by my good uncle Richard Bennett, dec`d.
Tracts: 'Warton Manner.' Children to be educated in the best schools of England.
Exs: Bros.-in-law Abraham Barnes and Robert Jenkins Henry.
Wit: James Walters, Edw. Griffin, Robert Willson, James Sparks, Wm. Geddes. 37. 474