[3] Lloyd was born in Gilgit, Kashmir,[4] where her father was a Major in the Royal Indian Army Service Corps.

[5] She joined the Royal College of Physicians in 1954 and became one the youngest female members[1] After further study in South Shields, Bristol, Plymouth, Oxford, Manchester and Durham, she became a research assistant to Otto Herbert Wolff in Birmingham.

She taught at the University of Birmingham from 1958 to 1965, specialising in metabolic disorders in children, particularly diabetes mellitus and childhood obesity.

Roy Meadow would become the first president,[4] but she would feature on the coat of arms of the new college, in which she is a supporter holding a staff of Aesculapius entwined with a double helix rather than the traditional snake.

[1] The other supporter was Thomas Phaire, whose Boke of Chyldren from 1545 was the first book on paediatrics in English, the crest is a baby, taken from the arms of the Foundling Hospital in Coram's Fields.