Cyril Lloyd

Major-General Cyril Lloyd, (14 April 1906 – 27 July 1989) was a senior British Army officer who served during the Second World War.

Military career Educated at Brighton Grammar School and the University of Cambridge, Lloyd was commissioned into the Royal Artillery on 25 December 1929. Posted to 57th Field Regiment Royal Artillery, he was promoted to lieutenant on 25 December 1932 and to captain on 8 March 1935. He then attended the Territorial Army officers course at Staff College, Camberley in 1939. He became Assistant Director of Military Survey at the War Office in October 1943 and, after being promoted to temporary lieutenant-colonel on 27 January 1944, he became Deputy Chief of Staff for 21st Army Group in April 1944.

Lloyd went on to be Director of Army Education in December 1944, in which role he was promoted to full colonel on 11 April 1945 and to major-general on 2 July 1946.

Lloyd went on to become Director-General of the City and Guilds of London Institute in 1949 and Chairman of the Associated Examining Board in 1970 before retiring in 1976.

Lloyd died on 27 July 1989: both he and his wife were cremated and both were interred at St. Mary's Church, Horsham.

Family Lloyd married Winifred Dorothy Moore; they had one daughter. He later married Marjorie Blanche Fripp (1916-2008), daughter of Isaac and Blanche Fripp.

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