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Peter Lloyd
was one of the best-known businessmen in Tasmania, chairman or a director of a
number of companies including AMP, the Commonwealth Bank, Goliath Cement and
Monier. Born in 1915, he gained a Master
of Arts degree from Oxford, joined Cadbury’s chocolate factory in England as a
management cadet, and serves in the Royal Artillery during the Second World
War. In 1914 he was posted to the
Cadbury factory in Tasmania, and was chairman from 1953 until 1971, when
Cadbury merged with Schweppes.
An
impressive figure who overawed some but had in moments of relaxation ‘a madcap
streak’, Lloyd was described as ‘a man of correctness and integrity’. He had wide educational interests: he sat on
the interim council of the University of Papua New Guinea and on the Australian
Administrative Staff College Council, and from 1972 to 1974 was a member of the
Commonwealth Williams Committee, which was knighted in 1971. As a hobby, he was a meticulous
gardener.
Lloyd sat on
the University Council from 1957, and was elected Chancellor in 1982. He commented that the biggest problem facing
the University was the need for continued financial stringency; he saw his role
as Chancellor as chairing University Council meetings and conferring
degrees. The last businessman to become
Chancellor, he perhaps ended the era when the Chancellor was mainly interested
in finances. In 1985 the Lloyds moved to
Victoria to be near their children, and Lloyd died in 1996.
Source: Alison Alexander, University Leaders, 2007
