George Lloyd (bishop of Saskatchewan)
| George Lloyd | |
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| Anglican Bishop of Saskatchewan | |
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| Church | Anglican Church of Canada |
| See | Saskatchewan |
| In office | 1922–1931 |
| Predecessor | Jervois Arthur Newnham |
| Successor | William Thomas Thompson Hallam |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | 1885 |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
6 January 1861 London, England |
| Died | 8 December 1940 (aged 79) Victoria, British Columbia |
| Spouse | Marion Tuppen |
George Exton Lloyd (January 6, 1861 – December 8, 1940) was an Anglican bishop and theologian who helped found Lloydminster, a city on the border of the provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan in Canada. He served as Bishop of Saskatchewan from 1922 to 1931.
Lloyd was born in London, England, and was educated privately and at St. John's College, London. He arrived in Canada in 1881 to study theology at Wycliffe College and the University of Toronto.
Before graduating he joined the Queen's Own Rifles of Canada and fought in the North-West Rebellion, commonly known as the Riel Rebellion. He distinguished himself at the Battle of Cut Knife, near Battleford, Saskatchewan, by providing covering fire for Edward Acheson, who was to be the father of future US Secretary of State Dean Acheson. Lloyd was severely wounded in this action.
Lloyd was ordained in Winnipeg in 1885 and married Marion Tuppen in the same year. They traveled to Rothesay, New Brunswick, where he took over a private co-educational day school known as Thompson's School. He renamed the school Rothesay College for Boys and eventually found a patron in the prominent local citizen James F. Robertson who established the school as Rothesay Collegiate School, later to become Rothesay Netherwood School.
In 1900 he returned to England. When he wrote a letter to The Times (of London) in 1902 proposing Western Canada as a good destination for emigration, he received thousands of replies. He became involved in an emigration project with Isaac Montgomery Barr and emigrated with his family with the Barr colonists. Although Barr was able to interest more than 2,600 colonists in emigrating, arrangements for their transportation and care were generally insufficient. For example, they crossed the ocean in a former troop carrier designed to hold a maximum of 900 passengers. In St. John, New Brunswick, Barr disappeared and Lloyd had to step in and arrange rail transportation to Saskatoon, where Barr turned up again. About 1,500 remaining colonists (the rest had stayed in Manitoba) made the rest of the 275 km trip by wagon and on foot.
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