I met him a couple of times and concur with everything said about him.

There is a very good article here:http://cjtm.icaap.org/content/25/v25art2.html which does seem to tell you a lot about the man. It is not as academic as it may look at first sight.

He was also an excellent raconteur, I once pickd him up from the train for a Cleethorpes festival (first or second I think) in the old days of it being on the pier and he kept a festival audience fascinated for about two hours with songs and stories.

He was a linguist of course and just post-1945 war I think, worked with Bert Hardy on the Picture Post as a journalist and when Hardy took his famous photographs it was Bert Lloyd who wrote the words. I vaguely remember Hardy talking on the radio and paying great tribute to him - Lloyd would chat to people and distract them whilst Hardy took the pictures and Hardy said without Lloyd he would never have got such great shots.

Dave