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William Lloyd-Taylor (c.1855 - 31 May 1942) was a publisher and local politician.

Originally named William Taylor, in 1899 he married Lily Mary Jones in Wandsworth.

Active in the Liberal Party, in 1907 he stood for election to the London County Council as a Progressive Party candidate at Fulham, but failed to be elected. At the next county council election in 1910 he won a seat representing St Pancras West. He was the county council's representative on the Central Unemployed Body for London. He lost his seat in 1913.

From 1912 he was a member of St Pancras Borough Council and also a Justice of the Peace for the County of London.

In 1919 he returned to the county council as a councillor representing St Pancras North. He was defeated at the next council elections in 1922, finishing behind both the Municipal Reform Party and Labour Party candidates. At the 1925 county council elections he stood as a Progressive at St Pancras South West, again finishing behind Municipal Reform and Labour opponents.

At the 1928 London County Council elections the "Progressive Party" label had been abandoned by the London Liberal Federation, and Lloyd-Taylor stood as a Liberal Party candidate at Hampstead, where he now lived. He was again unsuccessful, and was to be his last electoral contest.

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