Tributes for schoolmaster Maxwell

Mr Lloyd died at a hospital in Malvern last Wednesday - just ten days short of his 90th birthday.

Mainly under the headmastership of Robert Ainsworth, Mr Lloyd was a member of staff at Blackdown - now the disused Park Road site which was recently part of North Leamington School - in the 1960s and 1970s.

In those days Blackdown encouraged trips abroad, with Mr Lloyd’s participation in one of his last of these being aboard the ship SS Uganda calling at Amsterdam.

Mr Lloyd was the Duke of Edinburgh Award leader and also the careers master at Blackdown, a role in which he could call upon experience with cooperating with industry and commerce and the military, in which he had a keen interest having served as a major in the Education Corps.

Having lived in Lillington until he retired Mr Lloyd, who never married, moved to Malvern where he spent his summer days watching cricket from a deck chair in the sun.

Born in Pershore, Worcestershire, he had a love for the English countryside with nothing being more idyllic to him than the rolling slopes of Cleeve Hill in the Cotswolds.

Mr Lloyd also had a keen interest in horse racing, with Newbury being his favourite course, and he attended the Cheltenham Festival with his former colleague and former Blackdown PE master Maurice Leach.

Mr Leach, whose son James is Mr Lloyd’s god son, said: “I knew Max very well.

“He had charisma and was always fun to be with.

“He studied classics and had all these quotations to reel off for every situation.

“We always had a good time and wherever he went he made friends.”

Mr Lloyd’s funeral will take place at Worcester Crematorium on Thursday from 2.30pm.

His friend Malcolm Smith said: “All who knew him would endorse the final verdict of his ward sister. Max was the ‘perfect patient’, she said. Always the perfect gentleman.”