In 1910, his father, Nathaniel Lloyd, an Arts and Crafts architect, author, printer and designer of posters and other images for confectionery firms,[2]), bought Great Dixter, a manor house in Northiam, East Sussex near the south coast of England.

[5] His mother Daisy, to whom he had remained close his entire life, died at Great Dixter on 9 June 1972, aged 91.

[6][7] After Wellesley House (Broadstairs) and Rugby School, he attended King's College, Cambridge, where he read modern languages before entering the Army during World War II.

In 1954, Lloyd moved home to Great Dixter and set up a nursery specialising in unusual plants.

[citation needed] In 1979 Lloyd received the Victoria Medal of Honour, the highest award of the Royal Horticultural Society, for his promotion of gardening and his extensive work on their Floral Committee.

Happened from the Big Bang to the Present Day and a series of children's historical Wallbook titles.