Shan Lloyd, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Shan Lloyd

British journalist

Date of Birth: 01-Jul-1953

Date of Death: 13-Dec-2008

Profession: journalist

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About Shan Lloyd

  • Shan Lloyd (née Shan Davies) (1 July 1953 – 13 December 2008) was a British journalist, writer and reporter.
  • She was the fourth wife and widow of actor Hugh Lloyd.She grew up in Sheen in London, the second daughter of Margaret and Jack Davies, a bank manager.
  • She attended the Richmond County School for Girls; wanting to be a journalist, she left school at 16 in order to train in shorthand and typing at the Anne Godden Secretarial College in Putney, where her mother was a teacher.
  • These new skills obtained her an apprenticeship at the Kilburn Times.
  • Having done work for the Sunday Mirror as a freelancer, Shan Davies, as she then was, started work at the Sunday People in 1976, eventually becoming Fleet Street's first female crime correspondent.She met Hugh Lloyd in 1978, at Allen's, a famous restaurant in London's West End, while he was performing in No Sex Please, We're British.
  • Hugh Lloyd was already dining there when his friend waved to Shan Lloyd as she was entering the restaurant.
  • The two soon realized that they lived around the corner from one another.
  • Hugh Lloyd, who was in his fifties at the time of their first meeting, had already been married and divorced three times by this time.
  • In his autobiography, Hugh Lloyd described his future wife as "a scatty, blondehaired Fleet Street tabloid journalist".
  • Hugh and Shan married in 1983.
  • They moved to Worthing, West Sussex, in 2003.Shan Lloyd continued to pursue a professional career as a freelance showbiz reporter for the Brighton and Hove Leader.
  • In her later years, Lloyd became an active member of the Red Hat Society.Shan Lloyd died on 13 December 2008 at Worthing Hospital, 6 months after the death of her husband.
  • She was 55.

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