Jonathan Lloyd (priest)
Jonathan W LLoyd is a British-Canadian social worker and Anglican priest, born in Somerset, England, in 1956. In 1975/6 he worked with Bishop Trevor Huddleston and was deported from South Africa by the apartheid South African Bureau of State Security whilst on his way to work for the Anglican Diocese of Damaraland in Namibia. He then joined Bishop Colin Winter, Bishop of Namibia-in-Exile, at the community of the Namibia International Peace Centre in Sutton Courtenay, Oxfordshire, as a refugee support worker and personal assistant. He also worked for the International Defence and Aid Fund, the anti-apartheid organisation founded by Canon L John Collins to support political prisoners and their families in South Africa. After a bachelor's and master's degree in the Social Sciences, in 1982 LLoyd qualified as a social worker from Goldsmiths - University of London. After posts in local authority mental health and family social work in Southwark and Newham, in 1986 he was appointed as a Principal Social Worker at St Christopher's Hospice specialising in psychosocial fields of palliative care and interdisciplinary team work. He completed theological training at the Southwark Ordination Course (now St Augustine's College of Theology) and was ordained Deacon in 1990 by Bishop