Sir Edward Lloyd was a Welsh lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons

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  in 1640. He supported the Royalist cause in the English Civil War

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Lloyd was the son of Jenkin Lloyd of Berthllwyd, Llanidloes and his wife Dorothy Walter, daughter of Edmund Walter of Ludlow. He was admitted to Inner Temple

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 in November 1619. In 1629 he was High Sheriff of Montgomeryshire

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. He was knighted at St James on 28 June 1630. He was sworn a burgess of Denbigh on 10 September 1632.

In April 1640, Lloyd was elected Member of Parliament

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 for Montgomery

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 in the Short Parliament

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. He was a staunch Royalist during the Civil War. and was nominated Knight of the Royal Oak in 1660.

Lloyd married .