Ancestry of
Edward Lloyd V
13th Governor of Maryland
Who was Edmund Lloyd V?
Edmund Lloyd V was the 13th Governor of Maryland. His political career also included the Maryland House of Delegates, the Maryland Senate, and as a United States Senator from Maryland. Edmund Lloyd was also a large plantation owner who owned hundreds of slaves. His most famous slave was Frederick Douglass who spent part of his childhood as a slave at Wye House, one of Lloyd's plantations. Among the acts of cruelty perpetrated by Lloyd and his overseers upon his slaves includes this episode Douglass included in his autobiography about his life as a slave:
“To all these complaints, no matter how unjust, the slave must answer never a word. Colonel Lloyd could not brook any contradiction from a slave. When he spoke, a slave must stand, listen, and tremble; and such was literally the case. I have seen Colonel Lloyd make old Barney, a man between fifty and sixty years of age, uncover his bald head, kneel down upon the cold, damp ground, and receive upon his naked and toil-worn shoulders more than thirty lashes at the time.”
Famous Kin
Edmund Lloyd’s granduncle George Plater was the 6th Governor of Maryland, and his grandson Henry Lloyd the 40th Governor of Maryland. Other state governors in his family tree include Harry Byrd (50th Governor of Virginia), Charles Goldsborough (16th Governor of Maryland), Henry Lee III (9th Governor of Virginia), John Henry (8th Governor of Maryland), Thomas Sim Lee (2nd and 7th Governor of Maryland), Fitzhugh Lee (40th Governor of Virginia), Phillips Lee Goldsborough (47th Governor of Maryland), and a number of others.
Edmund Lloyd’s ancestry can be traced back to William the Conqueror , King Edward I, and a number of Magna Carta Sureties including Sir Saher de Quincy and John Fitzrobert. He also has kinship to the current royal family through Queen Elizabeth II and Catherine Middleton. His U.S. Presidential kin include James Madison, Zachary Taylor, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Barack Obama, and both Presidents Bush. Some of his other notable kin include polar explorer Admiral Richard Byrd, Confederate General Robert E. Lee, author F. Scott Fitzgerald, comedienne Ellen DeGeneres, actor Brad Pitt, English poet Edmund Waller, and explorer Meriwether Lewis.
Some of the most recently added connections of famous kin for Edward Lloyd V
Thomas Bradbury
(c1610/11 - 1694/5)
Great Migration Immigrant 1635
14th cousin 7 times removed
via Sir Richard FitzRoy
Harriet Martineau
Author of The Hour and the Man
17th cousin 4 times removed
via Sir Richard FitzRoy
Henry Sturgis Morgan
Co-Founder of Morgan Stanley
20th cousin 1 time removed
via Sir Richard FitzRoy
J.P. Morgan, Jr.
American Banker and Philanthropist
19th cousin 2 times removed
via Sir Richard FitzRoy
Robert Abell
(c1605 - 1663)
Great Migration Immigrant 1630
11th cousin 10 times removed
via Sir Richard FitzRoy
Francis Scott Key
Author of “The Star Spangled Banner”
20th cousin 1 time removed
via Sir Richard FitzRoy
Samuel Prescott
Completed Paul Revere's Midnight Ride
18th cousin 3 times removed
via Sir Richard FitzRoy
Joseph Bolles
(c1608 - 1678)
Great Migration Immigrant 1639
14th cousin 7 times removed
via Sir Richard FitzRoy
Thomas Nelson
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
16th cousin 5 times removed
via Sir Richard FitzRoy
William Floyd
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
19th cousin 2 times removed
via Sir Richard FitzRoy
Richard More
(c1614 - c1696)
Mayflower passenger 1620
12th cousin 9 times removed
via Sir Richard FitzRoy
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