Sir Peter Hugh Jefferd Lloyd-Jones FBA (21 September 1922 – 5 October 2009)[1] was a British classical scholar and Regius Professor of Greek at the University of Oxford.

Educated at Westminster School and at Christ Church, Oxford, he served as a linguist and intelligence officer during the Second World War, including a stint at the code-breaking centre at Bletchley Park.

Lloyd-Jones was educated at Westminster School where he developed an interest in Modern History before being converted to classics by his headmaster, J. T.

After Bedford he was sent to the Military Wing at Bletchley Park, and then he received further training at the Foreign Office and the Ministry of Economic Warfare.

[5] Following the end of the war, he was invited to join the British Commonwealth Occupation Force in Japan, but turned it down as he was eager to get back to his studies.

In his inaugural address as Regius Professor in 1961 he called for a reduction in the emphasis laid on composition taught to undergraduates and suggested that Honour Moderations might have to be reformed to encompass studies taken from ancient philosophy and history as well as the traditional literature and language.