While an undergraduate at Queen’s College Oxford, Lloyd drew cartoons for the Tariff Reform League. After graduating, he moved to South Africa to draw for the Rand Mail and Johannesburg Star. After 8 years in Johannesburg he moved back to the UK and started contributing to Punch. He later went back to South Africa to work for the Sunday Post and Sunday Times in the Transvaal. During the First World War, he fought with General Jan Smuts against the Germans in East Africa. He was awarded the Military Cross. After the war, he came back to the UK and worked as a political cartoonist for the News of the World between 1925-1927. He then became best known for his illustrations to Punch’s ‘Essence of Parliament’, to which he contributed caricatures for more than 40 years. He was succeeded by Michael Cummings in 1953.
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