{{short description|British politician}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2016}} {{Use British English|date=August 2016}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = | name = Archie Kirkman Loyd | honorific_suffix = KC | image = Archie Kirkman Loyd.jpg | alt = | caption = | constituency_MP = Abingdon (UK Parliament constituency) | parliament = United Kingdom | majority = <!--Can be repeated up to eight times by adding a number--> | term_start = 19 July 1895 | term_end = 17 Jan 1906 | predecessor = Philip Wroughton | successor = Edward Anthony Strauss | term_start2 = 29 Aug 1916 | term_end2 = 14 December 1918 | predecessor2 = Harold Greenwood Henderson | successor2 = John Tyson Wigan | birth_date = {{birth date|1847|1|22|df=yes}} | birth_place = Agra, North-Western Provinces, India | death_date = {{death date and age|1922|12|1|1847|1|22|df=yes}} | death_place = Chelsea, London, England | spouse = Henrietta Louisa Clutterbuck | party = Conservative Party | relations = | children = 4 sons | alma_mater = Brighton College | occupation = | profession = Barrister | signature = | signature_alt = | website = | footnotes = }} '''Archie Kirkman Loyd''', KC (22 January 1847 – 1 December 1922) was a British civil servant, barrister and twice Member of Parliament for Abingdon.<ref name="times43204" />
==Early life== Loyd was born on 22 January 1847 in Agra in the North-Western Provinces of India, the third son of Thomas Kirkman Loyd and Annie Hirst Loyd (née Haig). He was educated at Brighton College then as a pupil of Walter Wren, he took the open competition for the Indian Civil Service and later won prizes for English Law and Hindi.<ref name="times43204" /> He resigned for the Indian Civil Service in 1868 when he was called to the bar by the Middle Temple and in 1892 he was appointed a Queen's Counsel.<ref name="times43204" />
==Politics== In the 1895 General Election he was elected as a Member of Parliament for Abingdon as a member of the Conservative Party.<ref name="times43204" /><ref name="rayment" /> He retired in 1905 but was returned again as a member in a by-election which he held until November 1918.<ref name="times43204" /><ref name="rayment" /> He was appointed a deputy lieutenant of Berkshire in 1900.<ref>{{London Gazette | issue=27181 |page=2354 | date=10 April 1900}}</ref>
==Red Cross and other work== Loyd worked with his second cousin's husband, Lord Wantage, who had formed the National Aid Society in 1870, the society helped the sick and wounded from war and Loyd worked abroad for the Society particularly during the Franco-German war and in Turkey and Serbia.<ref name="times43204" /> Loyd was one of only two survivors of the original society when in 1905 it changed name as the British Red Cross Society and he became vice-chairman of the society's council.<ref name="times43204" /> He was on the governing body of Abingdon School from 1901 to 1922.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.abingdon.org.uk/uploads/school/files/abingdonian/1924_March_V006_N011.pdf#page=1|title=School Notes|publisher=The Abingdonian}}</ref>
==Family life== Loyd had married Henrietta Louisa Clutterbuck in 1885 and they had four sons. They lived at Downs House in Wantage in Berkshire (now Oxfordshire). He had a serious operation in November 1918 which restricted his activities and he died on 1 December 1922 at his home 21 Cadogan Square, Chelsea, London.<ref name="times43204" />
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<ref name="rayment">{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20090810231248/http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Acommons1.htm The House of Commons Constituencies beginning with "A"]}}</ref> <ref name="times43204"> {{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Obituary - Mr. A.K. Loyd, K.C. |author= |department=Obituaries |date=2 December 1922 |page=12 |pages= |issue=43204 |column=E }}</ref>
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== External links == * {{Hansard-contribs |mr-archie-loyd| Archie Loyd}}
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