Lloyd, Selwyn

Lloyd, Selwyn

▪ British statesman
also called  (1976–78) John Selwyn Brooke Selwyn-lloyd, Baron Selwyn-lloyd Of Wirral  
born July 28, 1904, Liverpool
died May 17, 1978, Preston Crowmarsh, Oxfordshire, Eng.

      British Conservative politician who was foreign secretary during Britain's diplomatic humiliation in the Suez crisis of 1956 and later chancellor of the exchequer under Prime Minister Harold Macmillan.

      Lloyd studied law at Cambridge and was called to the bar in 1930. After World War II army service, he was elected to the House of Commons, in which he served from 1945 to 1976. An effective parliamentarian, he became known as one of the “Young Turks” of the Conservative Party. When his party returned to power in 1951, Lloyd became minister of state for foreign affairs. After short terms as minister of supply (1954–55) and minister of defense (1955), he became foreign secretary (1955–60). During that term the invasion of Egypt was undertaken by Prime Minister Anthony Eden (October 1956) in alliance with France, following the Egyptian seizure of the Suez Canal. Soviet and U.S. opposition to this move soon led to a United Nations-conducted cease-fire and withdrawal of troops. Because of these events and his own ill health, Eden resigned in late 1956; Lloyd, however, was retained in his post by Harold Macmillan, the new prime minister.

      In July 1960 Lloyd was appointed chancellor of the exchequer but soon proved unable to cope with inflation and balance of payments difficulties, and in July 1962 he was purged along with other senior Cabinet members. Lloyd rejected an offer of a peerage and took his place as a Conservative backbencher in the Commons. In 1963 he joined the Cabinet of the new prime minister, Sir Alec Douglas-Home, as lord privy seal, serving until 1964, when his party was defeated. With the Conservative victory in 1970, Lloyd was elected speaker of the House of Commons, a post he held until he accepted a life peerage as Baron Selwyn-Lloyd in 1976. He was the author of Mr. Speaker, Sir (1976).

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