John Davies Knatchbull Lloyd

John Davies Knatchbull Lloyd (28 April 1900 – 13 December 1978), generally known as J. D. K. Lloyd, was born on 28 April 1900 , in Kensington, London. He was the elder son (his younger brother was Wyndham Edward Buckley Lloyd, F.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. 1901-1980) of John Maurice Edward Lloyd, M.A., a barrister of Lincoln's Inn.[1]

He went to Winchester School and Trinity College Oxford[2] (M.A.), and was the founder of the Hypocrites' Club, which included among its members Evelyn Waugh, Anthony Powell, Robert Byron and many other prominent figures of the time;[3] he received the nickname 'the Widow' in reference to a shaving lotion, 'The Widow Lloyd's Euxesis'. Lloyd's name appears in conjunction with this nickname in the journals and letters of many of his contemporaries for decades afterward.[4][5]

Lloyd spent his life devoted to antiquarian research and in public service to his community.

Public service career
  • 1929-1946: Secretary of the council for the preservation of rural Wales.
  • 1934: Justice of the Peace
  • 1937-1967: Secretary of the Powysland Club.
  • 1940: High Sheriff of Montgomeryshire[6]
  • 1948-1951: Chairman of the Montgomeryshire Health Executive Council
  • 1953-1955: Chairman of Montgomeryshire Planning Committee
  • 1954: President of the Cambrian Archaeological Association
  • 1956-1969: editor of Archaeologia Cambrensis
  • 1957-1974: Chairman of the Montgomeryshire County library Committee
  • 1957: Awarded OBE
  • 1960: Deputy Lieutenant of the county of Powys
  • 1969: Honorary LLD from the University of Wales
  • Mayor of Montgomery: 1932-1938 and 1961–1962
  • Member of the Historic Buildings Council for Wales
  • Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries

J. D. K. Lloyd wrote many articles and guides to Montgomery. He donated Dolforwyn Castle to the Welsh Ancient Monument Board (now Cadw) in 1955.

He died on 13 December 1978.

References
  1. The Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal, Exeter volume, the Marquis of Ruvigny and Raineval, Genealogical Publishing Co., 1994, pg 104
  2. Edward Burra: Twentieth Century Eye, Jane Stevenson, Pimlico, 2008, pg 90
  3. "AP The Anthony Powell Newsletter 65" (PDF). anthonypowell. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 January 2018. Retrieved 21 January 2018.
  4. Edward Burra: Twentieth Century Eye, Jane Stevenson, Pimlico, 2008, pg 90
  5. Diaries 1971-1983, James Lees-Milne, John Murray, 2008, p. 243
  6. "No. 34807". The London Gazette. 8 March 1940. p. 11382.


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