Lloyd was born on 28 April 1900, in Kensington, London, the elder son of John Maurice Edward Lloyd (1844-1910), M.A., a barrister of Lincoln's Inn, and Alice Norton (d. 1906), daughter of Major-General Charles Stirling Dundas, son of the 26th Chief of Clan Dundas.
Her mother, Mary Louisa, was daughter of Sir Norton Joseph Knatchbull, 10th Baronet.
), and was the founder of the Hypocrites' Club, which included among its members Evelyn Waugh, Anthony Powell who dedicated a book to him,[5] Robert Byron and many other prominent figures of the time.
Lloyd's name appears in conjunction with this nickname in the journals and letters of many of his contemporaries for decades afterward.
[7][8] Lloyd spent his life devoted to antiquarian research and in public service to his community.