Nicholas Lloyd

Nicholas Markley Lloyd was born on 9 June 1942, the son of Walter and Sybil Lloyd.[3] He was educated at Bedford Modern School,[4] St Edmund Hall, Oxford, and Harvard for the Advanced Management Program.[2][3][5][6]

Lloyd started his career as a reporter at the Daily Mail in 1964.[3] He was made Education Correspondent at The Sunday Times in 1966 and was made its Deputy News Editor in 1968.[3] 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.[3]

In 1976, Lloyd returned to The Sun where he was made Assistant Editor before joining the Sunday Mirror in 1980 as Deputy Editor.[3] 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.[2][7]

Lloyd received a knighthood in the 1990 Prime Minister's Resignation Honours.[2] 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.

Lloyd married journalist Eve Pollard in 1979; the couple have a son, Oliver.[2] He also has three children from his previous marriage - Justin, Rachael and James Lloyd.[2] Pollard's daughter from a previous marriage, television personality Claudia Winkleman, is his step-daughter.