Nicholas Lloyd
{{short description|British newspaper editor and broadcaster (born 1942)}}
{{for multi|the New Zealand cricketer|Nicholas Lloyd (cricketer)|the English cleric and academic|Nicholas Lloyd (lexicographer)}}
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| birth_name = Nicholas Markley Lloyd
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| birth_place = Luton, Bedfordshire, England
| nationality = British
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Sir Nicholas Markley Lloyd (born 9 June 1942) is a British former newspaper editor and broadcaster.{{Cite web|url-access=subscription|url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-24775|title=Lloyd, Sir Nicholas (Markley), (born 9 June 1942), Chairman, BLJ London (formerly Brown Lloyd James), since 1997|website=WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO|year=2007|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U24775|isbn=978-0-19-954088-4}}
Early life
Nicholas Markley Lloyd was born on 9 June 1942 in Luton, Bedfordshire, the son of Walter and Sybil Lloyd.{{cite web|url=http://oxfordindex.oup.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U24775?rskey=1gHZqs&result=4|title=LLOYD, Nicholas (Markley) (born 1942), Chairman, BLJ London (formerly Brown Lloyd James), since 1997|work=oup.com|access-date=10 July 2015}} He was educated at Bedford Modern School,"Bedford Modern School of the Black And Red" by Andrew Underwood, 1981 St Edmund Hall, Oxford, and Harvard for the Advanced Management Program.{{cite web|url=http://www.seh.ox.ac.uk/index.php?section=16|title=Welcome to St Edmund Hall... - St Edmund Hall|work=ox.ac.uk|access-date=10 July 2015}}{{Cite web|title=Sir Nicholas Lloyd Chairman of BLJ London|url=https://www.bljlondon.com/people-sir-nicholas-lloyd|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211201033636/https://bljlondon.com/people-sir-nicholas-lloyd|url-status=usurped|archive-date=1 December 2021|access-date=4 March 2021|website=www.bljlondon.com}}
Career
Lloyd started his career as a reporter at the Daily Mail in 1964. He was made Education Correspondent at The Sunday Times in 1966 and was made its Deputy News Editor in 1968. In 1970 he moved to The Sun where he was made News Editor and, in 1972, became Assistant Editor at the News of the World.
In 1976, Lloyd returned to The Sun where he was made Assistant Editor before joining the Sunday Mirror in 1980 as Deputy Editor.
Lloyd edited the Sunday People from 1982 to 1983, then moved to edit the News of the World for a year from 1984, and finally edited the Daily Express from 1986 to 1995."[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/inside-story-the-exeditors-files-490081.html Inside Story: The ex-editors' files]", The Independent, 9 May 2005
Lloyd received a knighthood in the 1990 Prime Minister's Resignation Honours. He presented a breakfast show on LBC 97.3, a London radio station, from 1997 to 1999. Since 2010, he has been the chairman of the public relations consultancy BLJ London.{{Cite web |title=Sir Nicholas Lloyd Chairman of BLJ London |url=https://www.bljlondon.com/people-sir-nicholas-lloyd# |access-date=10 January 2023 |website=www.bljlondon.com}}
Family life
Lloyd married journalist Eve Pollard in 1979; the couple have a son, Oliver. He also has three children from his previous marriage: Justin, Rachael and James Lloyd. Pollard's daughter from a previous marriage, television presenter Claudia Winkleman, is his step-daughter.
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{{succession box|title=Editor of the News of the World|years=1984–1985|before=Derek Jameson|after=David Montgomery}}
{{succession box|title=Editor of the Daily Express|years=1986–1995|before=Larry Lamb|after=Richard Addis}}
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Category:People educated at Bedford Modern School
Category:Alumni of St Edmund Hall, Oxford
Category:British newspaper editors
Category:British radio presenters
Category:Place of birth missing (living people)
Category:News of the World people