Ian Lloyd (politician): Difference between revisions
Tags: Mobile edit Mobile app edit Android app edit |
Tags: Mobile edit Mobile app edit Android app edit |
||
Line 33: | Line 33: | ||
| party = [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] |
| party = [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] |
||
}} |
}} |
||
'''Sir Ian Stewart Lloyd''' (30 May 1921 – 25 September 2006) was a British [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]] politician. Born in [[South Africa]] to wealthy English parents, he worked as a [[civil servant]] in the SA Board of Trade before moving permanently to England. He served as a [[backbench]] [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] for constituencies near [[Portsmouth]] nearly 30 years, from 1964 to 1992. He took an interest in African issues, shipping, and technology, and spoke about the dangers of [[Climate change|global warming]] as early as 1989. |
'''Sir Ian Stewart Lloyd''' (30 May 1921 – 25 September 2006) was a British [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]] politician. Born in [[South Africa]] to wealthy English parents, he worked as a [[Civil service|civil servant]] in the SA Board of Trade before moving permanently to England. He served as a [[backbench]] [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] for constituencies near [[Portsmouth]] nearly 30 years, from 1964 to 1992. He took an interest in African issues, shipping, and technology, and spoke about the dangers of [[Climate change|global warming]] as early as 1989. |
||
==Early and private life== |
==Early and private life== |
Revision as of 23:09, 4 December 2022
Sir Ian Lloyd | |
---|---|
Member of Parliament for Portsmouth Langstone | |
In office 1964 – February 1974 | |
Preceded by | Geoffrey Stevens |
Succeeded by | Constituency abolished |
Member of Parliament for Havant and Waterloo | |
In office February 1974 – 1983 | |
Preceded by | New constituency |
Succeeded by | Constituency abolished |
Member of Parliament for Havant | |
In office 1983–1992 | |
Preceded by | New constituency |
Succeeded by | David Willetts |
Personal details | |
Born | Durban, South Africa | 30 May 1921
Died | 25 September 2006 Chichester, West Sussex, England | (aged 85)
Resting place | Priors Dean, Hampshire, England |
Political party | Conservative |
Sir Ian Stewart Lloyd (30 May 1921 – 25 September 2006) was a British Conservative Party politician. Born in South Africa to wealthy English parents, he worked as a civil servant in the SA Board of Trade before moving permanently to England. He served as a backbench Member of Parliament for constituencies near Portsmouth nearly 30 years, from 1964 to 1992. He took an interest in African issues, shipping, and technology, and spoke about the dangers of global warming as early as 1989.
Early and private life
Lloyd was born in Durban in South Africa, the son of Walter John Lloyd and his wife, Carmen Craig Stewart Murray. Ian Lloyd's great-grandfather, Capt. Walter Lloyd (1823–1878), had emigrated from his native Wales to the British colony of Natal, as it then was, in the middle of the nineteenth century; the Lloyd family's ancestral home, Coedmore, is situated in Cardiganshire.[1]
Ian Lloyd was educated at St. John's Preparatory in Johannesburg, at Michaelhouse in Natal, and at the University of Witwatersrand. In the Second World War, he served in the South African Air Force as a Spitfire pilot and then flying instructor. After the War, he attended King's College, Cambridge. He was President of the Cambridge Union in 1947, served with the RAFVR, and sailed and skied for the university. He graduated with an MSc in 1952, and studied at the Administrative College at Henley-on-Thames.
He married Frances Addison in 1951-2012, daughter of the Hon. William Addison. They had three sons together; Jonathan, Mark and Peregrine.
He returned to South Africa, where he joined the Torch Commando protest group of World War II veterans, and the United Party. He became the economic adviser at the Central Mining and Investment Corporation, part of the South African Board of Trade and Industries. He resigned and permanently left South Africa in 1955, driven away by his disagreement with the policy of apartheid. Returning to the UK, he became a shipping executive, as Director of Research at British and Commonwealth Shipping Company from 1956 to 1964. He remained its economic adviser until 1983.
Political career
He was selected for the safe seat of Portsmouth Langstone in 1962, and duly elected as Member of Parliament at the 1964 general election. However, he was not the first member of the Lloyd family to be elected to Parliament. His great-great-uncle, Thomas Edward Lloyd (1820-1909), served as the M.P. for Cardiganshire between 1874 and 1880 as a member of the Conservative government led by Benjamin Disraeli. Ian Lloyd remained an MP until his retirement at the 1992 election, having changed constituency twice after boundary changes, to Havant and Waterloo in 1974 and to Havant in 1983. He had to fight for re-selection from 1971 to 1973, after the constituency boundaries changed, after the selection committee of his constituency party voted to deselect him. He was re-endorsed, but then his re-endorsement was challenged by Janet Fookes.
He served on the Council of Europe, and on the parliamentary assembly of the Western European Union, from 1968 to 1972.
In Parliament, he took a close interest in African issues, shipping, and science. He spoke against sanctions against Rhodesia after UDI, and compared Kenneth Kaunda to Hitler. He remained a critic of the apartheid in South Africa; however, he later opposed economic sanctions and the sporting boycott, arguing that closer links would be more effective in stimulating reform. As a result, he became seen as an advocate for the South African government in Westminster, being attacked as "Botha's mouthpiece".
He was a member of the Select committee on Technology for 10 years, and then chairman of the Select Committee on Energy for 10 years. He drove the establishment of the Parliamentary Information Technology Committee (Pitcom), and the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST). He argued for the appointment of a minister for information technology, and was one of the first to bring a microchip into the House of Commons. He supported nuclear power, and recognised the dangers of global warming as early as 1989, when he argued that "civilisation is clinging by our fingernails to the cliff". He was knighted in the 1986 Queen's Birthday Honours List.
Outside politics
He wrote a series of books on the history of Rolls Royce, published in 1978. He was also a member of the Royal Yacht Squadron.
In retirement, he was a member of the council of Save British Science, and a member of the Science Policy Support Group. He died in Chichester, West Sussex and is buried at Priors Dean.[2]
References
- Times Guide to the House of Commons 1987
- Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages [self-published source] [better source needed]
- Obituary[dead link], The Daily Telegraph, 30 September 2006
- Obituary, The Independent, 2 October 2006
- Obituary, The Times, 2 October 2006
- Obituary, The Guardian, 5 October 2006
- The Papers of Sir Ian Lloyd held at Churchill Archives Centre
- 1921 births
- 2006 deaths
- Alumni of King's College, Cambridge
- Presidents of the Cambridge Union
- Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
- UK MPs 1964–1966
- UK MPs 1966–1970
- UK MPs 1970–1974
- UK MPs 1974
- UK MPs 1974–1979
- UK MPs 1979–1983
- UK MPs 1983–1987
- UK MPs 1987–1992
- Alumni of Michaelhouse
- Alumni of St John's College (Johannesburg)
- Politicians awarded knighthoods
- 20th-century English non-fiction writers
- South African Air Force personnel of World War II
- South African World War II pilots
- South African emigrants to the United Kingdom
- South African Knights Bachelor