Thomas Ingram Kynaston Lloyd

Sir Thomas Ingram Kynaston Lloyd GCMG KCB (19 June 1896 – 9 December 1968), was a British civil servant who held the position of Permanent Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies from 1947 to 1956.

[1][2] In 1922 he married Bessie Nora Mason (1901–1992), with whom he had a son, George Peter Lloyd (1926–2007), who served as Governor of the Cayman Islands from 1982 to 1987.

Lloyd entered the British Civil Service after the First World War, serving as Assistant Principal at the Ministry of Health before joining the Colonial Office in 1921.

He was appointed Principal Clerk in 1929, Assistant Secretary in 1939 and Permanent Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies in 1947, a position he held until 1956.

[1][2] He wrote the foreword to Sir Charles Jeffries’s book, The Colonial Office, which was published in 1956.