Member of the New Zealand Alpine Club:

"The death of Lloyd Warburton at Invercargill came as a great shock to all who knew him. Only his family and more intimate friends had known that as long ago as 1951 Lloyd had suffered a cerebral haemorrhage from which he had been extremely fortunate to recover. Since then he had lived his full and vigorous life constantly with the knowledge that a recurrence was ever a possibility, if not inevitable. The blow fell in June of this year, just after Lloyd had returned from a weekend among old friends at the Otago Section's annual dinner. He never recovered full consciousness, and died eleven days later.

Lloyd was born in Invercargill and lived there all his life, apart from his four and a half years of war service. On leaving the Southland Technical College he joined his father's watch-making business. He married in 1941 and shortly afterwards enlisted in the RNZAF, serving in the instrument section in the Pacific area. After the war he returned to the business, and developed it, in conjunction with two of his brothers, into one of Invercargill's leading watch-making and jewellery firms. He had numerous interests outside his work and unconnected with mountaineering. He was a member of the Georgetown Cricket Club for many years, playing for some time in the senior eleven, and also a member of the Hotspurs Club of the Southland Football Association, and of the Southland Referee's Association. He joined the Southland Branch of the DX Club before the war, and became a foundation member and the first National President of the New Zealand Radio DX League in 1948. It was not until his illness, however, that he became actively interested in mountaineering, but in the years which followed this interest increased to the stage where it became one of the main inspirations in his life."

(from the New Zealand Alpine Journal, 1962) AWMM