A Family History of the Illustrious, Notorious and Eccentric Lloyds of Birmingham, Brigstock and Pipewell Hall - Flipbook - Page 70
GRANDFATHER LLOYD Samuel Janson Lloyd
1870 - 1943
e I only have the haziest memories of grandfather, they are all immensely positive. My mother was
lose to him, and many of my recollections stem from her. The Wedding Song refers to Sam already
ng for his father in a quarry at Corby in 1896. His father who died in 1918 was supposed to have
ted the first bulldozer into Britain. Mary9s birth certificate in 1911 showed her father, Sam Lloyd as
ging Director of Iron Ore Mines.
Grandfather9s Faux Pas
dfather joined the Northamptonshire County Council in 1911, being returned unopposed. There
t Fermyn Woods, a large house with some hundred acres of park, a rather pompous friend of his
ad been on the Council for a number of years, named GARDNER-MUIR. One morning, some
r three months later after the new Council had assembled, Gardner-Muir rang my grandfather to
at he had promised to take the Chair at an important Conference at Thrapston that afternoon, but
s in bed with flu, and asking my grandfather to take his place, which of course he had agreed to do.
andfather was quite unaccustomed to making speeches at that time, and as he travelled to the
rence in his car, he kept repeating to himself, I must start with,
