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Parl MAGAZINE Winter Sir Ian Lloyd 1921-2006 A tribute by Sir John Osborn Preface: A personal interest in Energy, being a member of Appreciation the Parliamentary Group on Energy Studies formed in 1980, and serving I have known and worked with Sir on the Select Committee (1979-89). Ian Lloyd for over 40 years, and we He was a prominent supporter of have been life members of the Nuclear Power. Parliamentary and Scientific Committee. We have had many Sir Ian joined the P&SC in 1965. He mutual interests. He has done much was Vice President (1984-87), deputy to promote the understanding of Chairman (1988-90) and became Science and Technology, especially President in 1990, leading a amongst fellow politicians, and in delegation to China in 1991. Government. Following a brief period as editor in 1997, he has been a regular I well remember his vision of over contributor to Science in Parliament, thirty years ago, when he predicted reviewing “Chernobyl – Catastrophe that containerisation would become a and Consequences” just before his dominating aspect of the transport of death. He concluded that the authors goods by land and sea. It was an “Have effectively demolished any interest that concerned us both. He excuse for publishing any nonsense on was Economic Advisor to British and the topic of Nuclear Power”. Commonwealth Shipping (1956-83), together at the 7th Conference in and Chairman of the Conservative He worked closely with Sir Trevor Ottawa in 1990. I had set in hand the Skeet and Sir Gerard Vaughan in 1986 Parliamentary Shipping and arrangements with a Canadian MP but Shipbuilding Committee (1974-77). to set up the P&SC Science and by 1990 we had both retired. He Technology Working Group. One aim The impact of the computer and IT invited Ian Lloyd, who was leading was to set up a British version of the was also of importance to us at the the UK delegation, and me to have Office of Technology Assessment in same time. I chaired a P&S committee lunch in the dining room of the Washington, which they visited. By which reported in 1968 on “The Canadian Parliament. When we asked 1988 briefs were being sent out on Collection, Dissemination, Storage, how it was possible for a former key issues to members of the Lords, and Retrieval of Scientific and Canadian MP to have access to Commons, and the European Technological Information”. It foresaw “Parliament Hill”, he explained that he Parliament by the Parliamentary Office the role of the computer in was President of the Canadian of Science and Technology (POST), of Information Technology and the Association of Former which Sir Ian was the first Chairman. impact of the memory and random Parliamentarians, recognised in an Act access but for the next fifteen years it of the Canadian Parliament. Ian Lloyd Some other highlights of was impossible to forecast the was on the Services Select Committee, the Life of Sir Ian Lloyd implication of it all. The P&SC, an all and was so briefed by our Canadian Born on 30th May 1921 in Durban, party IT Committee, and a host that he was able to insert the he was educated in South Africa, Conservative Committee chaired by appropriate amendments into the attending Natal-Witwatersrand Ernest Marples were interested in 1992 Services Bill. Former MPs now University. He read Science at Kings developments. Sir Ian was the driving have passes to give them access to College, Cambridge, becoming force behind the founding of PITCOM many parts of the Palace of President of the Union in 1947. He in 1981. I had always used secretaries, Westminster. There is an Association returned to South Africa and was typists, and a variety of office machine of Former MPs, backed by the Speaker economic advisor to the Central operators, but he insisted that in the Michael Martin, who has hosted Mining and Investment Corporation next century all senior officials in reunions in the Speaker’s House. They until 1949, entering the South African Government, civil servants, MPs, and number 350, but many more Former Board of Trade and Industries. He top executives would have to operate MPs have been granted passes since resigned in 1955, because of a their own computers and word the Services Act of 1992. “profound disagreement with processors in order to hold down their Apartheid”. posts. Another prediction that is Sir Ian Lloyd’s Contribution to Science and Technology, In 1957 he moved to England, surely true. becoming MP for Langstone- He was a member of the UK including the Parliamentary Portsmouth in 1964. Boundary delegation to the Assemblies of the and Scientific Committee redistribution created contests, but he Council of Europe and Western With the Council of Europe he continued in Havant & Waterloo, and European Union and served on their undertook a survey of the use of then Havant until he retired in 1992. Science and Technology Committees computers in European Institutions; He married Frances Addison in 1951 (1968-72). I followed him, to learn this survey took him to the USA and and they had three sons. He was that his original and thought- Canada, which enabled him to take an knighted in 1986. provoking work there was greatly active role in the All Party IT He displayed considerable vision and valued. Committee formed in 1979. He joined was a distinguished back-bencher, We both took part in many European the Select Committee on Science in who made an outstanding Parliamentary and Scientific 1975, and was concerned with contribution to many aspects of Conferences, and by chance we were Scientific Innovation. He took a deep Science and Technology. 2 Science in Parliament Vol 64 No 1 Spring 2007.
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