Anthony Lloyd, Baron Lloyd of Berwick

Anthony John Leslie Lloyd, Baron Lloyd of Berwick PC, QC ( born May 9, 1929) is a former British judge.

Family and Education

Lloyd was born the only son of Edward John Boydell Lloyd and Leslie Johnston Fleming. He is married to Jane Helen Violet Shelford since 1960. He received his education at Eton and at Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1948, he joined the 1st Battalion of the Coldstream Guards. This he was a member until his admission to the bar at the Inner Temple in 1955.

Career

After Lloyd worked as a barrister at the Inner Temple for several years, he was in 1967 appointed by Elizabeth II on the Attorney-General. From 1969 to 1977 he was in this capacity in the service of Prince Charles. In 1978 he was appointed a judge of the High Court of Justice and knighted at the same time. This office exercised Lloyd until he moved to the Court of Appeal in 1984.

He was taken on October 1, 1993 as a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary to the title of Baron Lloyd of Berwick, of Ludlay in the County of East Sussex in the House of Lords. As such, he was a member of the Appellate Committee of the House of Lords, which performs the adjudicatory functions of the House of Lords as the Supreme Court and was committed as a Cross Bencher of impartiality. He was also the committee which prepared the election of the first Lord Speaker.

In October 1996 he published a report on its investigation into the statutory provisions against terrorism. He was a member of the Court of Ecclesiastical Causes Reserved.

He went in 1999 to retire.

Memberships (Selection)

• Trustee of the Foundation The Smith Family (1973 )
• Honorary Member of the Royal Academy of Music (1981 )
• Member of the British Maritime Law Association (1983 )