We are very sorry to announce the death of Lloyd Bookless (Former Staff 1969 – 2005). Lloyd spent his entire career teaching Classics at Haileybury, He served Haileybury as Assistant HM in Batten for many years and became Universities Adviser in 1981. He was HM of Melvill (1989 – 2000) immediately after Humphrey Nye, also becoming Head of Classics in 1993.

Lloyd attended King Edward VI Grammar School for Boys in Morpeth and went on to read Classics at Churchill College, Cambridge, staying on for a PGCE.

At Lloyd’s final Speech Day in 2005, the Master Stuart Westley said ‘Lloyd Bookless has served this community with great dedication since 1969. A scholar and a gentleman, several thousand Haileyburians will have had reason to be grateful for his meticulous teaching of Classics and his dedicated service as Housemaster of Melvill, mainly in the days when House Tutors were rare and Sundays off were unknown. Subsequently he became Universities Adviser where his accuracy and attention to detail many admired and relied on. Latterly he has served as Academic Tutor in Allenby where his benevolently avuncular interpretation of the role appeals to young and old. There is much about Lloyd Bookless we shall miss, including his sterling support for Chapel, not to mention his humorous asides, often penetrating, never unkind. Retirement beckons against the background of service to the school over no fewer than 108 terms.’

The family are holding a private funeral, but words of condolence to be passed on by emailing us at members@thehaileyburysociety.org