Lloyd, Samuel (1853-1902)

Transcription of report published in the Primitive Methodist Magazine.

We were sorry to see announced a short time ago that the Rev. S. Lloyd, of Halifax, had resigned his position in our ministry, to undertake political and literary work. He does not sever himself from the Connexion and will be able to take occasional services in our pulpits, but we cannot help feeling that in leaving the ministry for a political agency he has sacrificed the greater to the less.

He might have very considerably aided all good work, political and otherwise, and still devoted himself to the higher work to which he had been called. Surely the ministry of the Christian church is sufficiently inclusive to satisfy the reasonable desires of any man to serve his day and generation. We hope, however, he may find in his new circumstances a sphere of great usefulness, and be able to give a higher tone to political labour and controversy.

Family

Samuel was born in 1853 at Newport, Monmouthshire, to parents Samuel, a grocer & baker, and Eliza.

Census returns identify the following occupations for Samuel.

1871 grocer’s assistant
1881 Wesleyan minister
1891 retired PM minister
1901 political agent

He married Mildred Maud Jones (1859-1918) on 24 February 1880 at Steynton, Pembrokeshire. Census returns identify six children.

Gladys Maud (1881-1951) – a governess (1911); emigrated to Australia
George William Merlin (1882-1960) – apprentice cabinet maker (1901); a costing accountant (1939)
Grace Eliza Annie (b1884) – a dental nurse (1911); married Bernhardt V Geissler in 1923 in new South Wales
Decima Muriel (1887-1947) – a nurse (1933); died in Victoria, Australia
Madge (b1889) – a hospital nurse (1911)
Margaret Nora (1890-1970) – a school teacher (1911); emigrated to Australia

Samuel died on 26 December 1902 at Gateshead, Co. Durham