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George Ambrose Lloyd

Governor of Bombay who promoted the 1924 Wembley Empire Exhibition

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Lord Lloyd

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George Ambrose Lloyd was Governor of Bombay. He was involved in promoting the Bombay school of art, and in the 1924 Wembley Empire Exhibition.

Mitter, Partha, Art and Nationalism in Colonial India (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994)

Mitter, Partha, The Triumph of Modernism (London: Reaktion, 2007)

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George Ambrose Lloyd, 1st Baron Lloyd by Howard Coster, half-plate film negative, 1934, NPG x23350

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Citation: ‘George Ambrose Lloyd’, South Asian Britain, https://southasianbritain.org/people/george-ambrose-lloyd/. Accessed: 30 August 2025.

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