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Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Lloyd, Colonel of the Leeds Volunteers, 1801. Oil on canvas by John Russell (1745-1806), 1801, signed and dated. Full-length, in regimental uniform, with his right hand resting on a presentation sword, left hand holding his plumed hat. The Leeds Volunteers regiment was raised in 1794. Thomas Lloyd (1751-1828), a Leeds cloth merchant from Horsforth Hall, commanded the regiment from the outset until the conclusion of hostilities against France in 1802, when it was disbanded. Shortly before this, the combined strength of officers, men and non-commissioned officers commissioned this portrait of their commander ‘as a present to the Colonel’s Lady’ and it was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1802.

Napoleonic Wars, Home Defence (1803-1815)