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Col Edward Lloyd III

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Col Edward Lloyd III

Birth
Talbot County, Maryland, USA
Death
27 Jan 1770 (aged 58)
Maryland, USA
Burial
Easton, Talbot County, Maryland, USA Add to Map
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Third son of Col.Edward Lloyd, II and Sarah Covington the Quakeress and the first husband of Ann Rousby, of Patuxent by whom he had these children: Elizabeth, who became the wife of General Cadwallader, of Philadelphia; Henrietta Maria, who merely perpetuated the name of that excellent lady, her grandmother, and died unmarried; Colonel Edward Lloyd, IV who became master of Wye House and would be married to Elizabeth Tayloe, of Virginia, the mother of Edward Lloyd, V, the Revolutionary patriot; and Richard Bennett, who, going to England became a Captain in the Coldstream Guards, and married a celebrated beauty, Joanna Leigh of North Court, Isle of Wight, England. A full length portrait of Capt. Richard Bennett Lloyd by Charles Willson Peale, painted 1775, hangs in the drawing room at Wye House.
(bio by: D C McJonathan-Swarm)

Third son of Col.Edward Lloyd, II and Sarah Covington the Quakeress and the first husband of Ann Rousby, of Patuxent by whom he had these children: Elizabeth, who became the wife of General Cadwallader, of Philadelphia; Henrietta Maria, who merely perpetuated the name of that excellent lady, her grandmother, and died unmarried; Colonel Edward Lloyd, IV who became master of Wye House and would be married to Elizabeth Tayloe, of Virginia, the mother of Edward Lloyd, V, the Revolutionary patriot; and Richard Bennett, who, going to England became a Captain in the Coldstream Guards, and married a celebrated beauty, Joanna Leigh of North Court, Isle of Wight, England. A full length portrait of Capt. Richard Bennett Lloyd by Charles Willson Peale, painted 1775, hangs in the drawing room at Wye House.
(bio by: D C McJonathan-Swarm)



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