Lewis Lloyd (politician)


Lewis Lloyd was a Welsh-born Australian politician.
The son of William Lloyd, he migrated to Australia in 1863 and became a well-known mining entrepreneur, known as the "Copper King". In 1865 he married Mary Ann Jones, with whom he had eleven children. He was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly in 1884 for West Macquarie; re-elected in 1885, he did not recontest in 1887. Lloyd died at Woollahra in 1902.