Sir Ian Stewart Lloyd (30 May 1921 – 25 September 2006) was a British Conservative Party politician.
He took an interest in African issues, shipping, and technology, and spoke about the dangers of global warming as early as 1989.
[1] Ian Lloyd was educated at St. John's Preparatory in Johannesburg, at Michaelhouse in Natal, and at the University of Witwatersrand.
In the Second World War, he served in the South African Air Force as a Spitfire pilot and then Flight instructor.
He returned to South Africa, where he joined the Torch Commando protest group of World War II veterans, and the United Party.
He became the economic adviser at the Central Mining and Investment Corporation, part of the South African Board of Trade and Industries.
He remained a critic of the apartheid in South Africa; however, he later opposed economic sanctions and the sporting boycott, arguing that closer links would be more effective in stimulating reform.
He supported nuclear power, and recognised the dangers of global warming as early as 1989, when he argued that "civilisation is clinging by our fingernails to the cliff".