Captain Sir Norman Lloyd-Edwards KCVO

Royal Victorian Order

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 GCStJ RD GOMLJ JP

Justice of the Peace

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 RNR

Royal Naval Reserve

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 (born June 13, 1933) was the Lord Lieutenant of South Glamorgan

Lord Lieutenant of South Glamorgan

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 from 1990 to 2008.

Captain Lloyd-Edwards hails from Aberfan

Aberfan

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, Merthyr Tydfil

Merthyr Tydfil

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, and was educated at Monmouth School

Monmouth School

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 for Boys, Quakers Yard Grammar School and University of Bristol

University of Bristol

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. A Solicitor and Notary Public Figure, Captain Norman Lloyd-Edwards is now retired. He was a Senior Partner and Consultant with Cartwrights, Adams & Black in Cardiff and spent his National Service in the Royal Navy between 1958-1960. He served on Cardiff City Council between 1963 and 1987, and Lord Mayor

Lord Mayor

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 in 1985/86. In 1990 he was appointed Lord Lieutenant of South Glamorgan. He became Vice President of the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in May 1995.

Lloyd-Edwards was made a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in 2007.

He is a Knight Grand Cross of the Venerable Order of St John and a Grand Officer of Merit in the Companionate of Merit of the Military & Hospitaller Order of St Lazarus of Jerusalem.

Additionally, Sir Norman has had a distinguished career in English Freemasonry

Freemasonry

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 (the English Grand Lodge is also responsible for Freemasonry in Wales). He has served many years as President of the Masonic Samaritan Fund (a national Masonic health care charity), and in April 2008 it was announced that he would be the new Provincial Grand Master for the Masonic Province of South Wales (Eastern Division).

On June 8, 2008, it was announced that Sir Norman will be retiring from the post of Lord Lieutenant of South Glamorgan on his 75th birthday.

Sir Norman is President of the Pilot cutter seamark charitable trust. An organisation restoring Swansea's pilot ship first comissioned in 1959

Offices held