William Lloyd | |
Constituency Am1: | Enoggera |
Assembly1: | Queensland Legislative |
Term Start1: | 22 May 1915 |
Term End1: | 9 Oct 1920 |
Predecessor1: | Richard Trout |
Successor1: | James Kerr |
Constituency Am2: | Kelvin Grove |
Assembly2: | Queensland Legislative |
Term Start2: | 12 May 1923 |
Term End2: | 11 May 1929 |
Predecessor2: | New seat |
Successor2: | Richard Hill |
Birth Date: | 1873 |
Birth Place: | Tenby, Wales |
Death Date: | 29 May 1965 (aged 92) |
Death Place: | Brisbane, Queensland, Australia |
Birthname: | William Field Lloyd |
Nationality: | Welsh Australian |
Party: | Labor |
Spouse: | Mabel Stack (m.1926 d.1978) |
Occupation: | School teacher |
William Field Lloyd (1873 – 29 May 1965) was a school teacher and member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.[1]
Lloyd was born at Tenby, Wales, to parents David Lloyd and his wife Elizabeth (née Field). He came to Australia at an early age and was educated at Brisbane State School. He started out his working life as an apprentice printer but before long he found himself working as a school teacher at Charters Towers Normal School and Ithaca Creek State School. He then established and directed the Queensland Correspondence College.[1]
On 8 December 1926 he married Mabel Stack (died 1978)[2] at St Columb's Church of England, Clayfield[3] and together had one son.[1] He died in May 1965 and was cremated at Mount Thompson Crematorium.[4]
Lloyd, for the Labor Party won the seat of Enoggera at the 1915 Queensland state election after being defeated at the 1911 by-election[5] and the 1912 state election.[6] He was defeated in 1920 by James Kerr of the National Party.[7]
In 1923, Lloyd won the new seat of Kelvin Grove[8] and held it for six years before being defeated by the CPNP's Richard Hill.[9]