Editing Christopher Lloyd (section)

== Early life ==
Lloyd was born on October 22, 1938, in [[Stamford, Connecticut]], the son of Ruth Lloyd (née Lapham; 1896–1984), a singer and sister of San Francisco mayor [[Roger Lapham]],<ref name="biography.com" /><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8jm2c1f/entire_text/ |title=A guide to the Roger D. Lapham photograph collection, 1892–1956 |editor-first=Amy |editor-last=Croft |date=Spring 2013 |publisher=San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park via Online Archive of California |access-date=November 1, 2016 |archive-date=March 14, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160314042100/http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark%3A/13030/c8jm2c1f/entire_text/ |url-status=live }}</ref> and her lawyer husband Samuel R. Lloyd Jr. (1897–1959). He is the youngest of three boys and four girls, one of whom, Samuel Lloyd, was an actor in the 1950s and 1960s.<ref name=NEA>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1696&dat=19911202&id=PvkaAAAAIBAJ&pg=4437,1085766 |title=Christopher Lloyd Is as Mysterious as Character |author-link=Frank Lovece |first=Frank |last=Lovece |agency=[[United Media]] |newspaper=[[The Daily News (Kentucky)|The Daily News]] |location=[[Bowling Green, Kentucky]]) |date=December 2, 1991}}</ref> Lloyd's maternal grandfather, [[Lewis Henry Lapham]], was one of the founders of the [[Texaco]] oil company<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1934/06/11/archives/lewis-h-lapham-financier-76-dies-retired-leather-merchant-was-a.html| title = Lewis H. Lapham, Financier, 76, Dies; Retired Leather Merchant Was a Founder of Texas Corporation, an Oil Concern | work =[[The New York Times]] |  date = June 11, 1934 | access-date = February 28, 2020| quote = The near relatives who survive [include] ... two daughters, Mrs. Elinor Ford of Washington, D.C.., and Mrs. Samuel Lloyd of Stamford, Conn., and two sons [including] Roger D. Lapham of San Francisco, president of the American Hawaiian Steamship Company....}}</ref> and Lloyd is also a descendant of ''[[Mayflower]]'' [[Mayflower#Passengers|passenger]] [[John Howland]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://apnews.com/article/0d370c58d0034038b6a16c3f57c22af4 |title=Meet John Howland, a lucky Pilgrim — and maybe your ancestor |website=[[Associated Press]] |first=Mark |last=Pratt |date=November 26, 2015 |access-date=June 1, 2022}}</ref> Lloyd was raised in [[Westport, Connecticut]], where he attended [[Staples High School]] and was involved in founding the high school's theater company, the Staples Players.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://06880danwoog.com/tag/christopher-lloyd/ |title=Christopher Lloyd |website=06880 |language=en |access-date=November 8, 2019}}</ref>