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John Selwyn Brooke Lloyd, Baron Selwyn-Lloyd CH
Order of the Companions of Honour

The Order of the Companions of Honour is a United Kingdom and Commonwealth of Nations Order . It was founded by George V of the United Kingdom in June 1917, as a reward for outstanding achievements in the arts, literature, music, science, politics, industry, or religion....
 PC
Privy Council of the United Kingdom

Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council is a body of advisors to the British monarchy. Its members are largely senior politicians, who were or are members of either the House of Commons of the United Kingdom or House of Lords....
 (28 July 1904 - 18 May 1978), known for most of his career as Selwyn Lloyd, was a British Conservative
Conservative Party (UK)

The Conservative and Unionist Party, more commonly known as the Conservative Party, is a conservative political party in the United Kingdom....
 politician.

Lloyd was educated at Fettes College
Fettes College

Fettes College is an independent school boarding and day school in Edinburgh, Scotland. It is often referred to as a Public school in common with the traditional independent schools in England and Wales, although in Scotland, as in most of the Anglosphere, "public school" usually refers to a state school....
 and Magdalene College, Cambridge
Magdalene College, Cambridge

Magdalene College redirects here, see also Magdalen College, OxfordMagdalene College was founded in 1428 as a Benedictine hostel, in time coming to be known as Buckingham College, before being refounded in 1542 as the College of St Mary Magdalene, a constituent college of the University of Cambridge....
, where he was President of the Cambridge Union, and was a Liberal Parliamentary candidate in the 1929 General Election. He served as a councillor on Hoylake Urban District Council
Hoylake

Hoylake is a coast town on the Wirral Peninsula, Merseyside, England. It is located at the north western corner of the peninsula, near to the town of West Kirby and where the River Dee, Wales estuary meets the Irish Sea....
 1932-40. During the Second World War he reached the rank of brigadier and was Deputy Chief of Staff of the British Second Army.






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John Selwyn Brooke Lloyd, Baron Selwyn-Lloyd CH
Order of the Companions of Honour

The Order of the Companions of Honour is a United Kingdom and Commonwealth of Nations Order . It was founded by George V of the United Kingdom in June 1917, as a reward for outstanding achievements in the arts, literature, music, science, politics, industry, or religion....
 PC
Privy Council of the United Kingdom

Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council is a body of advisors to the British monarchy. Its members are largely senior politicians, who were or are members of either the House of Commons of the United Kingdom or House of Lords....
 (28 July 1904 - 18 May 1978), known for most of his career as Selwyn Lloyd, was a British Conservative
Conservative Party (UK)

The Conservative and Unionist Party, more commonly known as the Conservative Party, is a conservative political party in the United Kingdom....
 politician.

Lloyd was educated at Fettes College
Fettes College

Fettes College is an independent school boarding and day school in Edinburgh, Scotland. It is often referred to as a Public school in common with the traditional independent schools in England and Wales, although in Scotland, as in most of the Anglosphere, "public school" usually refers to a state school....
 and Magdalene College, Cambridge
Magdalene College, Cambridge

Magdalene College redirects here, see also Magdalen College, OxfordMagdalene College was founded in 1428 as a Benedictine hostel, in time coming to be known as Buckingham College, before being refounded in 1542 as the College of St Mary Magdalene, a constituent college of the University of Cambridge....
, where he was President of the Cambridge Union, and was a Liberal Parliamentary candidate in the 1929 General Election. He served as a councillor on Hoylake Urban District Council
Hoylake

Hoylake is a coast town on the Wirral Peninsula, Merseyside, England. It is located at the north western corner of the peninsula, near to the town of West Kirby and where the River Dee, Wales estuary meets the Irish Sea....
 1932-40. During the Second World War he reached the rank of brigadier and was Deputy Chief of Staff of the British Second Army. He was elected to the House of Commons
British House of Commons

The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, which also comprises the British monarchy and the House of Lords ....
 to represent Wirral
Wirral (UK Parliament constituency)

Wirral was a county constituency which returned one Member of Parliament to the British House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post voting system....
 in the 1945 UK general election. Originally a Liberal
Liberal Party (UK)

The Liberal Party was one of the two major British political parties from the early 19th century until the rise of the Labour Party in the 1920s, and a third party of varying strength and importance up to 1988, when it merged with the Social Democratic Party to form a new party which would become known as the Liberal Democrats....
, he became a member of the "Young Turks" faction of the Conservative Party. When the Conservatives returned to power under Churchill
Winston Churchill

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, Order of the Garter, Order of Merit, Order of the Companions of Honour, Territorial Decoration, Fellow of the Royal Society, Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, Queen's Privy Council for Canada was a Politics of the United Kingdom known chiefly for his leadership of the United King...
 in 1951, Lloyd served under Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden
Anthony Eden

Robert Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon, Order of the Garter, Military Cross, Privy Council of the United Kingdom was a British people Conservative Party politician, who was Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs for three periods between 1935 and 1955, including during World War II....
 as Minister of State for Foreign Affairs from 1951 to 1954. He then served as Minister of Supply
Minister of Supply

The Minister of Supply was the minister in the British Government responsible for the Ministry of Supply , which existed to co-ordinate the supply of equipment to the national armed forces....
 (1954-1955) and Minister of Defence (1955), before becoming himself Foreign Secretary in the same year. His tenure saw the Suez Crisis
Suez Crisis

The Suez Crisis, also referred to as the Tripartite Aggression, was a military attack on Egypt by United Kingdom, France, and Israel beginning on 29 October 1956....
, which led to the fall of the Eden government, but he continued to serve as Foreign Secretary under Harold Macmillan
Harold Macmillan

Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton, Order of Merit, Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council was a British Conservative Party politician and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 10 January 1957 to 18 October 1963....
 until 1960, then becoming Chancellor of the Exchequer
Chancellor of the Exchequer

The Chancellor of the Exchequer is the title held by the British Cabinet of the United Kingdom Minister who is responsible for all economic and financial matters....
 (1960-1962).

Unable to cope with Britain's economic problems in the early 1960s, he was sacked from the government during the "Night of the Long Knives
Night of the Long Knives (1962)

The epithet Night of the Long Knives is given to July 13, 1962, when the United Kingdom Prime Minister Harold Macmillan sacked the following members of his Cabinet :...
" reshuffle, and returned to the backbenches, but was called back to the government in 1963 by Alec Douglas-Home
Alec Douglas-Home

Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, Baron Home of the Hirsel, Order of the Thistle, Imperial Privy Council , 14th Earl of Home from 1951 to 1963, was a British Conservative Party politician, and served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom for a year from October 1963 to October 1964 ....
, who made him Lord Privy Seal
Lord Privy Seal

The Lord Privy Seal or Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal is the fifth of the Great Officers of State in the United Kingdom, ranking beneath the Lord President of the Council and above the Lord Great Chamberlain....
 and Leader of the House of Commons
Leader of the House of Commons

The Leader of the House of Commons is a member of the Cabinet of the United Kingdom who is responsible for arranging government business in the United Kingdom House of Commons....
 until the Conservative defeat in the General Election
United Kingdom general election, 1964

The United Kingdom general election of 1964 was held on 15 October 1964, more than five years after its predecessor, and thirteen years after the Conservative Party had first taken power....
 of 1964. In 1971, after the Conservatives had returned to power, Lloyd became Speaker
Speaker of the British House of Commons

In the United Kingdom, the Speaker of the House of Commons is the presiding officer of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, and is seen historically as the First Commoner of the Land....
. In a break with convention, both the Labour
Labour Party (UK)

The Labour Party is a political party in the United Kingdom. Founded at the start of the 20th century, it has been since the 1920s the principal party of the Left-wing politics in England, Scotland and Wales, but not Northern Ireland, where it has only recently organised again....
 and Liberal Parties
Liberal Party (UK)

The Liberal Party was one of the two major British political parties from the early 19th century until the rise of the Labour Party in the 1920s, and a third party of varying strength and importance up to 1988, when it merged with the Social Democratic Party to form a new party which would become known as the Liberal Democrats....
 contested his seat in the 1974 general elections, but he retained it and continued to hold the position of speaker until 1976, when he was raised to the peerage as Baron Selwyn-Lloyd, of Wirral in the County of Merseyside. He died two years later.

A biography of Selwyn-Lloyd by D. R. Thorpe
D. R. Thorpe

D. R. Thorpe is an historian and biographer who has written biographies of two British Prime Ministers of the mid 20th century, Sir Anthony Eden and Sir Alec Douglas-Home....
 was published in 1989.