TRIBUTES have been paid to Dr Brian Beynon Lloyd CBE, Emeritus Fellow of Oxford University’s Magdalen College and former chairman of the Health Education Council.

Dr Lloyd, who was 89, died on June 28.

His eldest daughter, Megan Turmezei, 60, said her father had been a strong family man who enjoyed education and science.

She said: “He had a great sense of what was right and a passionate interest in what was right.”

Dr Lloyd was born in Port Talbot, Wales, on September 23, 1920 the son of a headmaster.

He won a scholarship to Winchester College and came to Oxford to study chemistry and physiology at Balliol College in 1939.

His studies were interrupted by the Second World War when, as a conscientious objector, he spent time working on nutrition in Oxford. After the war, he continued this work and his studies, visiting Europe to study the effects of wartime starvation. It was on one of these trips, to Germany that he met his future wife, Reinhild.

They married at Oxford Register Office in 1948 and went on to have seven children.

Dr Lloyd worked as a lecturer in physiology at Magdalen College and became vice-president at the college but in 1970, he left the University of Oxford to become founding director of Oxford Polytechnic, which later became Oxford Brookes University.

The Lloyd Building at Brookes, which is due to be demolished, was named after him to recognise his contribution.

He also served as chairman of the Health Education Council and in 1983, was made a CBE in recognition for his work raising awareness of the dangers of smoking.

He lived at High Wall, in Pullens Lane, Headington, from 1971 until his death.

Dr Lloyd’s funeral was held on July 21 at Oxford Crematorium.

Mrs Turmezei said: “My father loved education. He came to Oxford as a student and spent the rest of his life in this city.”

He leaves his wife, Reinhild, 89, seven children and 13 grandchildren.