Editing Selwyn Lloyd (section)

==Early life==
Lloyd was born on 28 July 1904 at Red Bank in [[West Kirby]], [[Cheshire]].<ref name="Matthew 2004, p157">Matthew 2004, p. 157.</ref> His father, John Wesley Lloyd (1865–1954), was a dental surgeon and Methodist lay preacher of Welsh descent; his mother, Mary Rachel Warhurst (1872–1959), was distantly related to [[John French, 1st Earl of Ypres|Field Marshal Sir John French]]. He had three sisters.<ref name="Matthew 2004, p157"/>

Lloyd was educated at the Leas School and as a boy was particularly interested in military history,<ref name="Matthew 2004, p157"/> to which he later attributed his successful military career.<ref>Thorpe 1989, p. 65.</ref> In 1918, aged thirteen, he won a scholarship to [[Fettes College]].<ref name="Matthew 2004, p158">Matthew 2004, p. 158.</ref> As a junior boy there, where he was nicknamed "[[Jezebel]]", after his initials JSBL, he became embroiled in a homosexual scandal, but was deemed to be the innocent party, escaping punishment, while three older boys were expelled.<ref name="Bloch 2015, p.202-4">Bloch 2015, pp. 202–4.</ref><ref>Thorpe 1989, p. 17.</ref>