Thomas Ingram Kynaston Lloyd
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Sir Thomas Ingram Kynaston Lloyd GCMG KCB (19 June 1896 – 9 December 1968), was a British civil servant who held the position of Permanent Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies from 1947 to 1956.[1][2]
Born in Shifnal, Shropshire, Lloyd was the eldest son of John Charles Lloyd, a corn merchant, and Henrietta Elizabeth Brown. He was educated at the Rossall School in Lancashire, leaving in 1915 with an open scholarship in mathematics. He graduated from the Royal Military College, Woolwich, in 1916 with the rank of Second Lieutenant[1][2] in the Royal Engineers and was promoted Lieutenant in 1917. During the First World War he served in Egypt and Palestine and was mentioned in despatches.[1]
In 1922 he married Bessie Nora Mason (1901–1992), daughter of G.J. Mason of Penn, Staffordshire, with whom he had two sons.[1] One of them, George Peter Lloyd (1926–2007), served as Governor of the Cayman Islands from 1982 to 1987.