Biography

1656 - 04/06/1731

LLOYD, David, a Clerk from Philadelphia County; born, 1656 in Manafon, Montgomeryshire, Wales; lawyer; clerk, Provincial Council, Pennsylvania (1686, 1691); commissioned, Attorney General, Pennsylvania (1686-1688, 1691, 1695-1700); Deputy Master of the Rolls (1686, 1689, 1691); clerk of the peace, Philadelphia County (1686, 1689, 1699-1700, 1701-1702); deputy register, Philadelphia County (1687-1689); clerk, Provincial Court, Pennsylvania (1689, 1691); appointed, Chief Clerk, Pennsylvania Colonial Assembly (May 10, 1689-May 10, 1691); city clerk, Philadelphia (1691); elected, Pennsylvania Colonial Assembly (1693-1695, 1702-1705, 1706-1710, 1711-1719, 1723-1724, 1725-1729); elected, Speaker (1694-1695, 1703-1705, 1706-1710, 1714-1715, 1723-1724, 1725-1729); register general of Pennsylvania (1697); city recorder and justice of the peace, Philadelphia (1704-1708); commissioner, Chester County (1715-1722); chief justice, Supreme Court of Pennsylvania (1717-1731); justice of oyer and terminer, Pennsylvania (1728); died, April 6, 1731 in Chester, Chester County (now Delaware County), Pennsylvania; interred, St. Paul’s Burying Ground, Chester, Delaware County, Pennsylvania.