Patricia Lloyd was the daughter of A. F. Lloyd of King's Park, SA, and great grand-daughter of the Rev'd A. F. Lloyd, rector of Instow, Devon, who visited SA in 1846-7 as travelling secretary for the Religious Tract Society. She was educated at Creveen, where she won the poetry prize in 1929 with her sonnet, 'Hannibal'. Her poetry was written before she was twenty-one.
