Dr Brian Beynon Lloyd CBE

Dr Lloyd, who was 89, died on June 28, leaving his wife, Reinhild, 89, seven children and 13 grandchildren.

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

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 war when, as a conscientious objector, he worked on nutrition in Oxford.

After the war, he continued this work and his studies, visting places in Europe to study the effects of starvation on the population. It was on one of these trips abroad, to Germany, that he met his future wife.

The two were married in Oxford in 1948.

Over the next few decades, 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 a founding director at Oxford Polytechnic, which became Oxford Brookes University.

The Lloyd Building at Brookes was named after him.

He was also chairman of the Health Education Council (HEC) and, in 1983, won a CBE in recognition for his work raising public awareness of the dangers of smoking.

His eldest daughter, Megan Turmezei, 60, said: “A major remit of the HEC was campaigning against smoking. It was something he was passionate about.”

Dr Lloyd was also a director of the International Nutrition Foundation, founded in 1985.

The foundation aims to provide support for training, research, communication and policy related to food and nutrition in developing countries.

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

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

Mrs Turmezei said: “My father was a strong family man who loved his children and who was extra fond of his grandchildren. And he loved education. He came to Oxford as a student and spent the rest of his life in this city.”