Mary
Honeychurch,
was born at Falmouth in 1795. At the age of twenty-eight she married
Samuel Lloyd, the owner of a colliery and iron foundry near Birmingham.
The couple had ten children between 1824 and 1839. Despite this large
family, Mary Lloyd found time to become a travelling minister for
the Society of Friends. Mary was an active
member of the Temperance Society and
set up a Provident Society to encourage the poor to save for the future.
The campaign against slavery was her main concern. Mary was secretary
of the Birmingham Female Society (1825-36) and later she was treasurer
of the movement (1845-1861). Mary Lloyd died in 1865.
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