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17 Samuel Cook LLOYD, JP CBE (1853-1929) (Founder member, elected 22.5.1922; resigned
19.7.1926.) Draper. Principal of S C Lloyd & Son, ladies’ outfitters and
drapery stores in Dudley Market Place and Hall Street. At age 17 he was
an apprentice draper and he appears to have started his own business by
1880. He died on 22.12.1929 aged 76 as ‘father’ of Dudley Town Council
having served continuously as a member for 42 years. He entered the
Council as a Liberal in 1887, was Mayor of the town four times (1913-
1917), and was made an Alderman in 1920. He was chairman of the
Patriotic Committee, the Dudley and District Regional Pensions
Committee, and local National Savings Committee; a Director of the
Dudley & District Benefit Building Society; member of the Guest Hospital management
committee; governor of Dudley Grammar School and the Technical College; and associated with
many other organisations. During the First World War he was a Lieutenant in the 1st Battalion
Worcestershire Volunteer Regiment but at the same time was chairman of the Local Military
Tribunal and War Pensions Committee, for which he was made a CBE (1919). He was a Borough
magistrate from 1906 until his death. He lived in Russell Street, Dudley.

18 Cyril Edward LLOYD, OBE MP (1876-1963) (Founder member, elected
22.5.1922; resigned 17.3.1930. Invited to rejoin June 1945 but eventually
declined because of heavy commitments.) Member of Parliament,
Ironmaster and Banker. Conservative MP for Dudley 1922-29, 1933-39 and
1941-45. Born in Birmingham, he was educated at Uppingham public
school, Rutland and first became an ironmaster after engineering training
in Birmingham and Vienna. He married Phyllis, daughter of Sir Ernest
Albert Waterlow, Royal Academician and celebrated landscape painter.
For over 50 years he was associated with the firm of N Hingley & Sons Ltd
(‘Noah Hingley’) of Netherton, celebrated iron founders and forgers, anchor and chain
manufacturers, and its subsidiary companies. He was made a Director in 1907, Chairman from
1918 until 1959, then Honorary Life President until his death. He became President of the
National Federation of Iron and Steel Manufacturers in 1925 due to his close association with
the industry. He was also a Director of Lloyd’s Bank and the Great Western Railway Company
from the 1920s. He was made an OBE (1920) for ‘Valuable services in supply of Chain, Cables
and Anchors to HM Navy’ during the First World War, was High Sheriff of Worcestershire for the
year 1935, and was made a Freeman of the Borough of Dudley in 1959. He lived at Church
House, Broome near Stourbridge.

19 Arthur Henry PHELIPS, Rev. Canon, MA (1875-1960) (Founder member, elected 22.5.1922;
resigned 21.9.1925.) Clergyman. Vicar of Dudley (Parish of St Thomas &
St Luke) from 1918, also Rural Dean from 1922 and Honorary Canon of
Worcester Cathedral from 1923. A keen educationist he was chairman of
the governors of Dudley Grammar School, a member of the governing
bodies of the Girls’ High School and Dudley Training College, and member
of Dudley Education Committee. He left Dudley in 1932 to become Vicar
and Rural Dean of Wimbledon where he remained until 1945, then retired
to Pershore and was made senior honorary Canon of Worcester cathedral.
Son of a vicar he was educated at Marlborough and then Hertford College,
Oxford. After ordination in 1900 he served as Curate at Balsall Heath and Kings Norton (where
he gave large garden parties!), followed by Minor Canon of Worcester Cathedral, vicar of St
Mary’s, Wythall (1907-15) and Vicar of the Abbey Church, Pershore (1915-18), before coming to
Dudley.