David Allden Lloyd

bmj;386/jul08_9/q1488/FAF1faDavid Allden Lloyd was born on 11 May 1940 in Natal, Union of South Africa, the eldest of three brothers. His passion for medicine—and community—developed through his father and grandfather in his rural childhood home of Dundee; both were family doctors serving the town and its associated township.In 1958 Lloyd arrived in England to study medicine at King’s College, Cambridge. Following posts in London and Norwich, he spent a year training in Cardiff, where a lifelong passion for Welsh rugby was born during trips to Cardiff Arms Park, the soaring pre-match anthems and a mutual antipathy to the English team conjuring memories of his homeland.In 1969 he returned to South Africa as a surgical registrar at Cape Town’s Groote Schuur Hospital, scrubbing-in with Christiaan Barnard on some of the world’s first heart transplants. At his next post, at the Red Cross Memorial Children’s Hospital, he met his future wife Carol,…
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