DIED IN HIS SLEEP

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 32, 7 February 1941, Page 5

DIED IN HIS SLEEP

LORD LLOYD, COLONIAL SECRETARY SOLDIER, POLITICIAN AND ADMINISTRATOR [ "British Official Wireless. ] RUGBY, Feb. 5. Lord Lloyd. Colonial Secretary and Leader of the House of Lords, died peacefully in his sleep at midnight, aged 61. Soldier, politician, and administrator, Lord Lloyd served in the Near East in the last war and won ths D.S.O. His Parliamentary career was interrupted when he became Governor of Bombay and again when he became High Commissioner for Egypt and Sudan. He was created a peer on this appointment, and on returning to England took a leading part in the House of Lords debates on Empire affairs. He was keenly interested in the work of the British council for cultural relations with foreign countries, of which he was first president, and inaugurated branches in several European capitals. George Ambrose Lloyd, Baron Lloyd of Doiobran, was born in 1879 and educated at Eton and Cambridge. He travelled widely and in 1905 became attache at the British Embassy at Constantinople. In 1908 he was appointed to inquire into the future of Anglo-Turkish trade and into trade possibilities in Mesopotamia and the Persian Gulf. During the World War he served in Egypt, Gallipoli, Russia, and Mesopotamia, and was with the forces of the Shereef of Mecca in the Hedjaz. where he won the D.S.O. In 1910 he entered the House of Commons as Conservative member for West Staffordshire, but eight years later he resigned when he was appointed Governor of Bombay. In 1923 he re-entered Parliament on his return from India and in 1925 was appointed High Commissioner for Egypt. He was attacked by the Labour Government for his administration there and resigned his post in 1929. He then became chairman of the Empire Economic Union and president of the Navy League. In 1937 he became chairman of the British Council. He was made a baron in 1925, was also a Privy Councillor and held the G.C.S.I. and the G.C.I.F. He published, among other works, “Egypt, Since Cromer.”