Sir Thomas Ingram Kynaston Lloyd

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KCB (19 June 1896 – 9 December 1968), was a British civil servant who held the position of

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from 1947 to 1956.''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Lloyd, Sir Thomas Ingram Kynaston
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Retrieved 11 November 2020.

Family and education

Born in

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, Lloyd was the eldest son of John Charles Lloyd, a corn merchant, and Henrietta Elizabeth Brown. He was educated at the

Rossall School Rossall School is a public school (English independent day and boarding school) for 0–18 year olds, between Cleveleys and Fleetwood, Lancashire. Rossall was founded in 1844 by St Vincent Beechey as a sister school to Marlborough College ...

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, leaving in 1915 with an open scholarship in mathematics. He graduated from the

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in 1916 with the rank of

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. In 1922 he married Bessie Nora Mason (1901–1992), with whom he had a son, George Peter Lloyd (1926–2007), who served as

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from 1982 to 1987.

Career

Lloyd entered the British

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after the

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, serving as Assistant Principal at the Ministry of Health before joining the

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in 1921. He was appointed Principal Clerk in 1929, Assistant Secretary in 1939 and

in 1947, a position he held until 1956. He wrote the foreword to Sir Charles Jeffries’s book, ''The Colonial Office'', which was published in 1956.Sir Charles Jeffries, ''The Colonial Office'', Allen & Unwin (1956). He died on 9 December 1968 at the age of 72.

Honours

Lloyd was made a Companion of the

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(CMG) in

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, a Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) in

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, a Knight Commander of the

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(KCB) in 1949 and a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George (GCMG) in

1951 Events January * January 4 – Korean War: Third Battle of Seoul – Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul for the second time (having lost the Second Battle of Seoul in September 1950). * January 9 – The Government of the United ...

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lloyd, Thomas Ingram Kynaston 1896 births 1968 deaths People from Shifnal People educated at Rossall School Knights Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath Civil servants in the Colonial Office Permanent Under-Secretaries of State for the Colonies