Frederic Lloyd

Most notably, Lloyd was the General Manager of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company from 1951 until its closure in 1982.

[1] In 1951 he was a director of the Festival of Britain,[1] and in September of that year he was appointed General Manager of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company and of the Savoy Theatre, in succession to Alfred Nightingale.

[4] With D'Oyly Carte's closure, Lloyd retired from theatre management, although he continued to sit on numerous committees.

[1] He wrote articles on Elgar and Beethoven, and he collaborated with Robin Wilson on an official history of the D'Oyly Carte Company in 1984.

[1] On his retirement, he moved from his London home in St John's Wood to the village of Strathpeffer, Scotland, near Inverness, where he became a lay-preacher at his local church.

Lloyd (left) with Osbert Lancaster at the launch of D'Oyly Carte's revival of The Sorcerer in 1971