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{{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 = [[Queen's Counsel|KC]]
|image = Archie Kirkman Loyd.jpg
|alt =
|caption =
|constituency_MP = [[Abingdon (UK Parliament constituency)]]
|parliament = United Kingdom
|majority = 
|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]], [[British Raj|India]]
| death_date = {{death date and age|1922|12|1|1847|1|22|df=yes}}
| death_place = Chelsea, London, England
| nationality = British
| spouse = Henrietta Louisa Clutterbuck
| party = [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]]
| relations =
| children = 4 sons
| residence =
| alma_mater = [[Brighton College]]
| occupation =
| profession =Barrister
| religion =
| signature =
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| footnotes =
}}
'''Archie Kirkman Loyd''' [[King's Counsel|KC]] (22 January 1847 – 1 December 1922) was a [[United Kingdom|British]] barrister and twice Member of Parliament for [[Abingdon (UK Parliament constituency)|Abingdon]].<ref name="times43204" />

==Early life==
Loyd was born on 22 January 1847 in [[Agra]] in the [[North-Western Provinces]] of [[British Raj|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 United Kingdom general election|1895 General Election]] he was elected as a Member of Parliament for [[Abingdon (UK Parliament constituency)|Abingdon]] as a member of the [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]].<ref name="times43204" /><ref name="rayment" /> He retired in 1905 but was returned again as a member in a [[1916 Abingdon by-election|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 2nd cousin's husband, [[Robert Loyd-Lindsay, 1st Baron Wantage|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|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 1923.<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" />

== References ==
{{reflist|refs=
<ref name="rayment">[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
|articlename=Obituary - Mr. A.K. Loyd, K.C.
|author=
|section=Obituaries
|day_of_week=Saturday
|date=2 December 1922
|page_number=12
|page_numbers=
|issue=43204
|column=E
}}</ref>
}}

== External links ==
* {{Hansard-contribs |mr-archie-loyd| Archie Loyd}}

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| title = [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] for [[Abingdon (UK Parliament constituency)|Abingdon]]
| years = [[1895 United Kingdom general election|1895]] – [[1906 United Kingdom general election|1906]]
| before = [[Philip Wroughton]]
| after = [[Edward Anthony Strauss]]
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| title = [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] for [[Abingdon (UK Parliament constituency)|Abingdon]]
| years = [[1916 Abingdon by-election|1916]] – [[1918 United Kingdom general election|1918]]
| before = [[Harold Greenwood Henderson]]
| after = [[John Tyson Wigan]]
}}
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[[Category:British Queen's Counsel]]
[[Category:Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies]]
[[Category:Deputy Lieutenants of Berkshire]]
[[Category:Members of the Middle Temple]]
[[Category:People educated at Brighton College]]
[[Category:People from Agra]]
[[Category:UK MPs 1895–1900]]
[[Category:UK MPs 1900–1906]]
[[Category:UK MPs 1910–1918]]
[[Category:People from Wantage]]
[[Category:Governors of Abingdon School]]

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