He owned the Grade I listed house Great Dixter in East Sussex,[3] now a legacy left to the nation by his youngest child, Christopher Lloyd, the gardener and author.
[6][7] It was so successful that Lloyd was able to take partial early retirement in 1909, becoming joint managing director of the Star Bleaching Co, which he sold in 1912 and turned to his second career in architecture.
[11] Photographs by Nathaniel Lloyd are also held by the National Trust[12] and in the Conway Library, whose archive of mainly architectural images is being digitised under the wider Courtauld Connects project.
Prior to his death he set up The Great Dixter Charitable Trust to run the estate and continue to open the house and garden to visitors.
[18] In 1905 Nathaniel Lloyd married Daisy Field[3] and they had six children, 5 sons, Selwyn (1909–35), Oliver (1911–85), Patrick (1913–56), Quentin (1916–95), Christopher (1921-2006) and 1 daughter, Letitia (1919–74).