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John Selwyn Brooke Lloyd, Baron Selwyn-Lloyd CH PC (
28 July 1904 -
18 May 1978), known for most of his career as
Selwyn Lloyd, was a British
Conservative politician.
Lloyd was educated at
Fettes College and
Magdalene College, 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 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 to represent
Wirral in the
1945 UK general election. Originally a
Liberal, he became a member of the "Young Turks" faction of the Conservative Party. When the Conservatives returned to power under
Churchill in
1951, Lloyd served under
Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden as Minister of State for Foreign Affairs from 1951 to
1954. He then served as
Minister of Supply (1954-
1955) and Minister of Defence (1955), before becoming himself
Foreign Secretary in the same year. His tenure saw the
Suez Crisis, which led to the fall of the Eden government, but he continued to serve as Foreign Secretary under
Harold Macmillan until
1960, then becoming
Chancellor of the Exchequer (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" reshuffle, and returned to the backbenches, but was called back to the government in
1963 by
Alec Douglas-Home, who made him
Lord Privy Seal and
Leader of the House of Commons until the Conservative defeat in the
General Election of
1964. In
1971, after the Conservatives had returned to power, Lloyd became
Speaker. In a break with convention, both the
Labour and
Liberal Parties 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 was published in 1989.
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