Thomas Alwyn Lloyd

Thomas Alwyn Lloyd OBE (11 August 1881 – 19 June 1960), known as T. Alwyn Lloyd, was a Welsh architect and town planner. He was one of the founders of the Town Planning Institute in 1914 and its president in 1933. He was also a founding member of the Council for the Protection of Rural Wales in 1928 and served as its chairman from 1947 to 1959. Meic Stephens described Lloyd's work as follows:

Life and career Hafod Lwyd, Rhiwbina Garden Village. Designed by Alwyn Lloyd for his own occupation Thomas Alwyn Lloyd was born in Liverpool, the son of Thomas and Elizabeth Jones Lloyd, from Denbighshire. He was educated at Liverpool College and studied and Liverpool School of Architecture in the University of Liverpool. Between 1907 and 1912 he was an assistant to Sir Raymond Unwin in the Hampstead Garden Suburb. In 1913 he was appointed consulting architect to the Welsh Town Planning and Housing Trust. He also undertook work for the National Coal Board and Forestry Commission in Wales. In 1948 he entered into partnership with Alex Gordon forming T. Alwyn Lloyd and Gordon..

He married Charlotte Ethel Robarts in 1914.

He died on holiday in Torquay on 19 June 1960. 1913–1914 Wrexham Garden Village, 205 houses. Llanidloes garden suburb, Powys 1915– Barry Garden Suburb, Vale of Glamorgan 1920–1923 Rhiwbina Garden Village, Cardiff 1922 Village Hall, Llanfair Caereinion, Powys

1930 University of Wales Registry extension, Cathays Park, Cardiff 1936 Fferm Goch, Penllyn, Vale of Glamorgan. 34 Semi-detached houses for unemployed miners. 1949–50 Turner House Art Gallery, Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan. Remodelling 1960 Ystrad Mynach College of Further Education

Dates unknown: Fishguard, Pembrokeshire – new village design

T Alwyn Lloyd memorial travelling scholarships Awarded by the Welsh School of Architecture to the top four students in the final year of the Part 1.

T Alwyn Lloyd memorial prize Awarded by the Welsh School of Architecture for the best overall performance in the 2 examination.

Select Writings Lloyd, T. Alwyn Brighter Welsh villages and how we can achieve them CPRW, (1931) Lloyd, T. Alwyn Town and Country Planning. Routledge (1935) Lloyd, T. Alwyn. with Herbert Jackson, South Wales Outline Plan HMSO (1947) Lloyd, T. Alwyn Welsh Town Planning and Housing Trust and Its Affiliated Societies The Town Planning Review Vol. 23, No. 1 (Apr. 1952), pp. 40–51. Lloyd, T. Alwyn Safeguarding the Beauty of Wales:Being a short address Broadcast from Cardiff BBC station on St David's Day, 1933. Reprinted by the CPRW Welshpool, 2008.