Portrait of Charles Lloyd

Charles Lloyd

1735 – 1773

Private secretary to George Grenville, a clerk of the Treasury and tutor to Grenville’s children.

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A former private secretary to George Grenville during his time as Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury, Charles Lloyd remained a staunch defender of the Stamp Act and his former employer’s reputation with respect to public finance. Lloyd wrote extensively against Edmund Burke and other opposition writers sympathetic to the American cause and coordinated with a number of others who defended Parliament’s authority to tax the colonies.

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