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Name: LLOYD, Hugh Thomas

Photo Source: mini-SITREP XLV

Nee: son of Reginald John Alcock Lloyd

Birth Date: 7 Jan 1915 Pietermaritzburg, SA

Death Date: 27 Mar 2004 Scottborough, KwaZulu, Natal

Nationality: Irish

First Date: 1919

Last Date: 1976

Profession: Agriculturist. 1932-39 Coffee farming Kiambu and Ruiru. 1939 Joined Agric. Dept. as a coffee officer. Served in the KAR 1939-42 and then called back to the Agric. Dept. to help with food production. Senior Agric. Officer in 1953.

Area: Kiambu, Ruiru, Nairobi, Hut - Mgr. Earl Portsmouth 1964 Kitale

Married: 1. In Bideford 1939 Margaret 'Peggy' Elizabeth Whitaker b. 3 May 1913 Evershot, Dorset, d. 1974 Howick, Natal; 2. 1993 Beryl Bailey (widow)

Children: Robin Hugh Mackenzie (6 Mar 1940 Kenya-2 Apr 2001); Brigid (Hamill); Sally (Edwards); Patrick Jonathan (6 Oct 1946 Nakuru-6 Feb 2006 Alabama); Richard (1940-1957)

Book Reference: EAWL, Sitrep 2, Staff 53, Hut, Old Africa, Wed, mini-Sitrep XXV

War Service: KAR in WW2

School: Kenton College, Tonbridge School, Kent; Imperial College Tropical Agriculture Trinidad

General Information:

Sent to Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture for a course in 1947-48. Appointed Agricultural Officer in the Colonial Service in 1949. Left Agric. Dept. in 1953 and ran the Portsmouth Estates till 1969 as General Manager. Served on R.A.S.K. Committee from 1950 -1969. Member of Council 1955. Vice President 1959-61 and President in 1962. 1969-76 - World Bank as an agriculturalist.

One of the original '500' men in the Kenya Regt. in 1937. (KR 146)

Staff 53 - Originally Asst. Agric. Officer 1939. On leave pending retirement in 1953

Old Africa 4 Tim Hutchinson writes - In 1924 Capt. Finlay Ross Cramb opened Kenton School with 12 pupils amongst whom were Ken Cunningham, Rex Kirk, Hugh Lloyd, Eddy Sladen, Jim Nightingale and Pat Lawford. The school moved to Nairobi in 1934.

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