Editing Jeremy Lloyd (section)

==Early years==
John Jeremy Lloyd was born in [[Danbury, Essex]] to a mother who had been a dancer, and a petroleum engineer father who served as an officer in the [[Royal Engineers]] at the beginning of [[World War II]].<ref>[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11310788/Jeremy-Lloyd-obituary.html Jeremy Lloyd Obituary"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190119121500/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11310788/Jeremy-Lloyd-obituary.html |date=19 January 2019 }}. 23 December 2014. ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]''. London. Retrieved 8 May 2017.</ref> As a child he was sent to live with his grandmother in [[Manchester]] and rarely saw his parents, who he claimed had seen him as a failure.<ref name=guardian/> His father withdrew him from a private [[Preparatory school (United Kingdom)|preparatory school]] in 1943.

Lloyd then worked as a junior assistant in the menswear department at [[Simpsons of Piccadilly]] and many of the characters depicted in ''Are You Being Served?'' were drawn from his recollections of his time there. He was also a travelling paint salesman and believed his early jobs gave him a better education than a university could have provided.<ref name=autobiography>{{cite web| url=http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2825757-listen-very-carefully-i-shall-say-this-only-once| title=Listen Very Carefully – I Shall Say This Only Once| website=[[Goodreads]]| access-date=10 January 2015| archive-date=23 August 2015| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150823102341/http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2825757-listen-very-carefully-i-shall-say-this-only-once| url-status=live}}</ref>