- June Lloyd, Baroness Lloyd of Highbury
June Kathleen Lloyd, Baroness Lloyd of Highbury DBE (
January 1 1928 –28 June 2006 ) was a Britishpaediatrician and, in retirement, a cross bench member of theHouse of Lords . She was the first female President of theBritish Paediatric Association (now theRoyal College of Paediatrics and Child Health ).Early life
Lloyd was born in Gilgit,
Kashmir , where her father was aMajor in theRoyal Indian Army Service Corps . She remained inIndia until 1936, when her family returned toEngland . She was educated at the Royal High School in Bath, where she becamehead girl . She readmedicine at theUniversity of Bristol , winning honours with distinction and a gold medal.Career
She joined the
Royal College of Physicians in 1954. After further study inSouth Shields , Bristol,Plymouth ,Oxford ,Manchester andDurham , she became research assistant toOtto Wolff inBirmingham . She taught at theUniversity of Birmingham from 1958 to 1965, specialising inmetabolic disorder s in children, particularlydiabetes mellitus andchildhood obesity .In 1965, she followed Wolff to
Great Ormond Street Hospital inLondon , and the associatedInstitute of Child Health atImperial College London where she became a senior lecturer, later areader and finallyprofessor .Lloyd was appointed professor of child health and head of a new department of paediatrics at
St George's Hospital Medical School in London in 1975, and returned to Great Ormond Street in 1985 as Nuffield Professor of Child Health. She served with distinction on many committees. She was the first female president of the British Paediatric Association from 1988 to 1991, and was a vice-president of the Royal College of Physicians from 1992 to 1995.She retired from practising medicine in 1992, but played a role in transforming the British Paediatric Association into the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, to take over responsibility for training and standards for paediatricians that had previously been under the control of the Royal College of Physicians. She is commemorated in the
coat of arms of the new College, in which she is asupporter holding astaff of Aesculapius entwined with adouble helix rather than the traditionalsnake . The other supporter isThomas Phaire , whose "Boke of Chyldren" from 1545 was the first book on paediatrics in English; the crest is a baby, taken from the arms of theFoundling Hospital inCoram's Fields .Lloyd was appointed a DBE in 1990, and received an honorary
DSc from Bristol University in 1991 and a second honorary DSc from Birmingham University in 1993. She was made aLife peer as Baroness Lloyd of Highbury, of Highbury in theLondon Borough of Islington in 1996.However, a severe
stroke before her introduction to the House of Lords prevented her taking her seat until 1998. Her resulting disability left her unable to become an active member of the House. She died on28 June 2006 , aged 78.She never married; her brother, Philip Lloyd, was a
Commander in theRoyal Navy .References
* [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,60-2263031,00.html Obituary] , "
The Times ",10 July 2006
* [http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,,1817347,00.html Obituary] , "The Guardian ",11 July 2006
* [http://www.fetalneonatal.com/cgi/content/full/78/6/523 Coat of Arms of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health]External links
* [http://www.rcpch.ac.uk/index.html The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health]
Persondata
NAME=Lloyd, June; Baroness Lloyd of Highbury
ALTERNATIVE NAMES=Lloyd, June Kathleen; Baroness Lloyd of Highbury
SHORT DESCRIPTION=Britishpaediatrician and life peer
DATE OF BIRTH=January 1 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH=Gilgit ,Kashmir
DATE OF DEATH=28 June 2006
PLACE OF DEATH=
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.