Noel Lloyd was born in Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, on 26 December 1946. He educated first at Ysgol Gymraeg Dewi Sant (St David's Welsh School) and then Llanelli Grammar School for Boys, where his father mathematics teacher. subsequently attended Queens' College, Cambridge, he obtained a First Class all Parts of the Mathematical Tripos. proceeded to work PhD under supervision Sir Peter Swinnerton...