Central Mosque Lord Lloyd was a leading proponent of the future London Central Mosque. As early as 1939 he worked with a Mosque Committee, comprising various prominent Muslims and ambassadors in London. After joining Churchill's cabinet, he sent a memo to Churchill to point out that London contained "more [Muslims] than any other European capital" but that in the British Empire "which actually contains more Moslems (sic) than Christians it was anomalous and inappropriate that there should be no central place of worship for Mussulmans [sic]". He believed the gift of a site for the mosque would serve as "a tribute to the loyalty of the Moslems of the [British] Empire and would have a good effect on Arab countries of the Middle East". Other interests In commerce, Lloyd was also director of the British South Africa Company and Wagon Lit Holdings. In peacetime, he habitually travelled in tropical countries every two months. In his fifties, he trained for and obtained a civil pilot's certificate in 1934, and in 1937, he was appointed Honorary Air Commodore of No 600 (City of London) (Fighter) Squadron of the Auxiliary Air Force with which he insisted on training himself to qualify as a military pilot. Personal life In 1911, Lloyd married Blanche Isabella Lascelles, DGStJ, daughter of the Honourable Frederick Canning Lascelles, a Royal Navy commander, and granddaughter of Henry Lascelles, 4th Earl of Harewood. Blanche was a lady-in-waiting to Alexandra of Denmark from 1905 to 1911 and to Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood (wife of Blanche's first cousin, Henry Lascelles, 6th Earl of Harewood) from 1941 to 1945. Some in the Foreign Office had thought Lloyd was a homosexual and persisted in that view despite his marriage and the birth of his son. Death Lloyd died of myeloid leukaemia at a clinic in Marylebone, London, in February 1941, aged 61, and was buried at St Ippolyts, Hertfordshire. He was succeeded in the barony by his son, Alexander. Lady Lloyd died in December 1969, aged 89. In popular culture He appears as the character "Henry Fortescue" in Compton Mackenzie's novel Thin Ice. See also List of Cambridge University Boat Race crews References Sources John Charmley, Lord Lloyd and the Decline of the British Empire, Weidenfeld, 1987. Goldstein, Erik "Neville Chamberlain, the British Official Mind and the Munich Crisis", pages 276–292, from The Munich Crisis, Prelude to World War II, edited by