Field officer's coatee, worn by Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Lloyd, Leeds Volunteers, 1795 (c)

Scarlet coatee with blue facings (pictured with a red sash and gorget).

Thomas Lloyd (1751-1828), a Leeds cloth merchant from Horsforth Hall, commanded the Leeds Volunteers from when the regiment was raised in 1794 until the conclusion of hostilities against France in 1802, when it was disbanded.

In 1803, war broke out with France again and a corps of Volunteers was raised again, with Thomas Lloyd once more assuming command. A force of 1,400 was equipped and trained to meet the threatened invasion of England. Although on a war footing from 1804, they mostly carried out fire-fighting duties. In 1805 Lloyd resigned his command, owing to ill health.