Major John Lloyd, Governor of the Isle of Man in the 1720s.

He came in after a governor whose quarrel with the spiritual courts had ended badly. That predecessor had been censured, the matter was carried at length before a committee of the Privy Council, judgment was passed on him for contumacy, and he retired. Lloyd took much the same line. When the Sumner applied to him for power to commit one Wainwright, who lay under censure for adultery, the Governor utterly refused his authority.

He presided over the counterfeiting case of 1723, and the way he dealt with it has been remembered as the Manx constitution working properly. A Grand Jury acquitted the accused man, apparently to spare him a capital sentence. The Keys found the proceedings irregular, and the jurors were fined. Lloyd heard their petition, reduced the fines and restored them, ruling that their error had come of ignorance and a misunderstanding of the law rather than of wilful error.