Alexander Lloyd, 2nd Baron Lloyd

He was commissioned in the Territorial Army as a second lieutenant in the Warwickshire Yeomanry in 1935, rising to captain in 1941.

[2] He succeeded his father in the barony in 1941 and took his seat on the Conservative benches in the House of Lords.

He served under Winston Churchill (a close political associate of his father) as a Lord-in-waiting (government whip in the House of Lords) from 1951 to 1952 and as Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department from 1952 to 1954, and under Churchill and later Sir Anthony Eden as Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies from 1954 to 1957.

[2] Lord Lloyd was in business, serving as president of the Commonwealth and British Empire Chambers of Commerce in 1957, a director of Lloyds Bank and of Beehive Insurance, and chairman of the London board of the National Bank of New Zealand in 1978.

They had one son and two daughters: Lord Lloyd lived at the Clouds Hill Estate, Little Offley, Hitchin.