Selwyn Lloyd

The Right Honourable The Lord Selwyn-Lloyd CH CBE TD PC QC DL
Lloyd in 1960
Speaker of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom
In office 12 January 1971 – 3 February 1976
Monarch	Elizabeth II
Prime Minister	Edward Heath Harold Wilson
Preceded by	Horace King
Succeeded by	George Thomas
Shadow Leader of the House of Commons
In office 16 October 1964 – 4 August 1965
Leader	Sir Alec Douglas-Home
Preceded by	Herbert Bowden
Succeeded by	Fred Peart
Leader of the House of Commons Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal
In office 18 October 1963 – 16 October 1964
Prime Minister	Sir Alec Douglas-Home
Preceded by	Iain Macleod
Succeeded by	The Earl of Longford
Chancellor of the Exchequer
In office 27 July 1960 – 13 July 1962
Prime Minister	Harold Macmillan
Preceded by	Derick Heathcoat Amory
Succeeded by	Reginald Maudling
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
In office 22 December 1955 – 27 July 1960
Prime Minister	Anthony Eden Harold Macmillan
Preceded by	Harold Macmillan
Succeeded by	Sir Alec Douglas-Home
Minister of Defence
In office 7 April 1955 – 20 December 1955
Prime Minister	Anthony Eden
Preceded by	Harold Macmillan
Succeeded by	Walter Monckton
Minister of Supply
In office 18 October 1954 – 7 April 1955
Prime Minister	Winston Churchill
Preceded by	Duncan Sandys
Succeeded by	Reginald Maudling
Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal
In office 8 March 1976 – 17 May 1978 Life peerage
Member of Parliament for Wirral
In office 5 July 1945 – 11 March 1976
Preceded by	Alan Crosland Graham
Succeeded by	David Hunt
Personal details
Born	John Selwyn Brooke Lloyd (1904-07-28)28 July 1904 West Kirby, Cheshire, England
Died	17 May 1978(1978-05-17) (aged 73) Preston Crowmarsh, Oxfordshire, England
Political party	Liberal (before 1945) Conservative (1945–1971) None (after 1971)
Spouse	Elizabeth Marshall ​ ​ (m. 1951; div. 1957)​ (died 2010)
Children	1
Alma mater	Fettes College Magdalene College, Cambridge
Military career
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Service / branch	British Army
Years of service	1937–1955
Rank	Colonel
Unit	Royal Artillery
Battles / wars	Second World War Operation Overlord Falaise Pocket Allied advance from Paris to the Rhine Operation Plunder
Awards	Commander of the Order of the British Empire Mentioned in despatches (2x) Territorial Decoration Legion of Merit (Commander)

John Selwyn Brooke Selwyn-Lloyd, Baron Selwyn-Lloyd, CH, CBE, TD, PC, QC, DL (28 July 1904 – 17 May 1978)^[1][2] was a British politician who served as Speaker of the House of Commons from 1971 to 1976, having previously held various ministerial positions under Prime Ministers Winston Churchill, Anthony Eden, Harold Macmillan and Alec Douglas-Home between 1954 and 1964. A member of the Conservative Party,^[a] Lloyd served as Foreign Secretary from 1955 to 1960 and as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1960 to 1962. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Wirral from 1945 to 1976.

Born and raised in Cheshire, Lloyd was an active Liberal as a young man in the 1920s. In the following decade, he practised as a barrister and served on Hoylake Urban District Council, by which time he had become a Conservative Party sympathiser. During the Second World War he rose to be Deputy Chief of Staff of Second Army, playing an important role in planning sea transport to the Normandy beachhead and reaching the acting rank of brigadier.

Elected to Parliament in 1945 as a Conservative, he held ministerial office from 1951, eventually rising to be Foreign Secretary under Prime Minister Anthony Eden from April 1955. His tenure coincided with the Suez Crisis, for which he at first attempted to negotiate a peaceful settlement, before reluctantly assisting with Eden's wish to negotiate collusion with France and Israel as a prelude to military action. He continued as Foreign Secretary under the premiership of Harold Macmillan until July 1960, when he was moved to the job of Chancellor of the Exchequer. In this job he set up the NEDC, but became an increasingly unpopular figure because of the contractionary measures which he felt compelled to take, including the "Pay Pause" of July 1961, culminating in the sensational Liberal victory at the Orpington by-election in March 1962. In July 1962 Macmillan dismissed him from the Cabinet, making him the highest-profile casualty in the reshuffle known as the "Night of the Long Knives".

He returned to office under Prime Minister Alec Douglas-Home as Leader of the House of Commons (1963–64), and was elected Speaker of the House of Commons from 1971 until his retirement in 1976.

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