Noel Lloyd CBE, FLSW (26 December 1946 – 7 June 2019[1][2]) was a Welsh academic, who served as Vice-Chancellor of Aberystwyth University from 2004 to his retirement in 2011.

[3] Noel Lloyd began his academic career at the University of Cambridge, moving to Aberystwyth University in 1975[4] and subsequently becoming Professor of Mathematics,[5] Dean of Science, Pro Vice-Chancellor and, from 1999 to 2004, Registrar and Secretary.

He was awarded a CBE in the Birthday Honours List in 2010 for services to Higher Education in Wales.

He graduated in Mathematics from the University of Cambridge, completed his PhD there and was a Research Fellow at St John’s College.

He was an elder in Capel y Morfa, Aberystwyth [cy], having been church secretary from 1989 to 2004.