Robert Hamilton Lloyd-Anstruther (21 April 1841 – 24 August 1914) was a British army officer and Conservative Party politician.[1][2]

The son of Captain James Hamilton Lloyd-Anstruther and his wife Georgiana née Burrell.[1] Following officer training at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, he entered the Rifle Brigade as an ensign in 1858,[3] and immediately saw action in the later stages of the Indian Mutiny.[2] In 1862 he rose to the rank of lieutenant by purchase[4] He fought in the operations to repulse the Fenian raids in Canada in 1866, and was promoted to captain in 1872.[5] In 1871 he married Gertrude Louisa Georgiana Fitzroy of Hampshire. He served as a garrison instructor for the South Eastern District until 1881 when he was appointed aide de camp to General Edward Newdegate in the Colony of Natal in 1881.[6] He retired on half pay in the same year.[7] However, he returned to the army shortly afterwards, rising to the rank of major and serving with distinction in the Suakin Expedition of 1885.[2] In that year he retired from the army with the rank of honorary lieutenant-colonel in the Suffolk Rifle Volunteer Corps.[2]

At the 1886 general election, Lloyd-Anstruther was chosen by the Conservative Party to contest the South Eastern or Woodbridge Division of Suffolk, a constituency held by the Liberal Party Member of Parliament, Robert Lacey Everett.[8] He won the seat for the Conservatives, but only served a single term in parliament, with Everett regaining the seat in 1892 general election.[2][8]

On his father's death in 1882, Lloyd-Anstruther had inherited Hintlesham Hall near Ipswich in Suffolk.[9] He later entered local government as an alderman on East Suffolk County Council, and was appointed a justice of the peace and a deputy lieutenant of Suffolk.[1][2] He died in 1914,[10] survived by his wife and one son, Fitzroy Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe, who was later created a baronet.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d Lundy, Darryl (24 November 2011). "Lt.-Col. Robert Hamilton Lloyd-Anstruther". thePeerage.com: A genealogical survey of the peerage of Britain as well as the royal families of Europe. Retrieved 28 November 2011.[unreliable source]
  2. ^ a b c d e f "ANSTRUTHER, Lt-Col Robert Hamilton Lloyd-". Who Was Who. Oxford University Press. December 2007. Retrieved 28 November 2011.
  3. ^ "No. 22156". The London Gazette. 25 June 1858. p. 3051.
  4. ^ "No. 22595". The London Gazette. 4 February 1862. p. 592.
  5. ^ "No. 23915". The London Gazette. 1 November 1872. p. 5108.
  6. ^ "No. 24947". The London Gazette. 8 March 1881. p. 1072.
  7. ^ "No. 24973". The London Gazette. 17 May 1881. p. 2555.
  8. ^ a b Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "W" (part 5)
  9. ^ "The Hall & Its Associations". Hintlesham Hall Hotel. Archived from the original on 5 February 2012. Retrieved 28 November 2011.
  10. ^ "Death of Lieutenant-Colonel Lloyd-Anstruther". The Times. 25 August 1914. p. 9.

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