Alfred Ernest Floyd

Alfred Ernest Floyd OBE (5 January 1877 - 13 January 1974) was an English-born organist and choirmaster in Australia, later known as a radio broadcaster. He has been described as Australia's oldest radio disc jockey when he retired at 95.

Career Born in Aston, Birmingham, England, in 1877, Floyd's family moved to Cambridge in 1890 where he attended the Leys School and became a pupil of the organist of King's College, Cambridge. He completed a bachelor of music degree at Oxford in 1912, doctor of music at Cambridge in 1918, and took the position of organist and choirmaster of St Paul's Cathedral in Melbourne, Australia,

He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1948, and awarded an honorary Doctor of Letters and the ABC's Silver Medallion in 1971.

In July 1972, aged 95, Floyd announced he would be retiring from his radio programme after 28 years on air. He stayed on as a musical consultant for the ABC, and planned to broadcast again.

He died in Melbourne on 13 January 1974, eight days after his 97th birthday.