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Ivan Stewart LLOYD

                      Daily Gleaner, August 20, 1993
(excerpt from an obituary by Troy Caine in the Daily Gleaner, August 20, 1993)

An avid cricket lover who grew up in a Moravian environment, Ivan Stewart
Lloyd was born on June 6, 1903 at Hatfield in Manchester  . . . the third son
of six sons and two daughters to Jethro Amaziah Lloyd, an outstanding
educator in primary education from 1896 to 1935 and his wife Frances Rose (nee Monteith), a farmer's daughter. He was educated St. John's College in
Kingston, then abroad at the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, Illinois
University, College of the City of New York, Royal College of Edinburgh and
Howard University where he became President of the Caribbean Students'
Association.

Returning to Jamaica as a qualified Medical Practitioner in the early 1930's,
Dr. Lloyd first started his work in Kingston, then was later transferred to
Claremont in St. Ann as a Government Medical Officer in 1933. This was the
move that was to merge his destiny with the people of St. Ann as the
Government post officially lasted for seven years and in 1940 he resigned
and went into private practice, the year before he married Eunice Louise
Scott, a farmer's daughter. It was this role of not just an outstanding doctor
who played a significant role in the elimination of yaws in the parish, but
also one who truly endeared himself to the humble, rural people by his
generosity in medical care as well as in other ways of uplifting their quality
of 
life which really set the stage for Ivan Lloyd to become one of the most
loved and most eminent persons ever to seek public office in Jamaica.

He had followed in his father's footsteps by becoming a member of the
newly-formed People's National Party and when what would be the final
national elections for the island's Legislative Council were held in 1942,
Ivan Lloyd was overwhelmingly elected the Member for the parish of St. Ann, thus becoming the first person connected to the fledgling PNP to elected to
any kind of public office. But that initial role would be short-lived.

On October 27, 1944 Jamaica was granted a New Constitution with Universal
Adult Suffrage and a House of Representatives with 32 seats, and the
political system as Lloyd's older colleagues in the Council knew it, ceased
to exist.

Contesting the East St. Ann seat for the PNP in the first general election on
December 14, 1944, Ivan Lloyd hardly made it a contest between himself and his three opponents. He polled 10,635 votes (69.2 per cent) and drubbed
the JLP's Gilbert Laing by 9,245 votes, the highest majority island-wide!

                                                Daily Gleaner, July 18, 1930
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Dr Hugh Kenneth Lloyd,  another brother, spent some time at Howard,
though his final qualification was from the University of Illinois.

Daily Gleaner,  September 14, 1934

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