Abstract
Martyn Lloyd-Jones was born on 20 December 1899 in Cardiff and attended Tregaron School. His parents moved to London to run a dairy; he continued his education at St Marylebone Grammar School and in 1916 entered St Bartholomew's Medical School. He qualified in 1921 and then progressed rapidly by passing the MRCP and MD, becoming Sir Thomas (later Lord) Horder's Chief Clinical Assistant and researching bacterial endocarditis. His future in consultant medicine was promising but in 1927 he married, moved house and gave up medicine. He married Bethan Phillips, a University College Hospital medical graduate and daughter of London Welsh consultant ophthalmologist Tom Phillips, and had two daughters. Their happy marriage lasted 54 years (1927–81).
He became minister of a church in Aberavan (1927–39) and there to Westminster Chapel (1939–68), and he was recognized worldwide as a powerful evangelist. His international congregations on Sundays at Westminster numbered 1500–2000 young persons, many from overseas. He became President of many organizations, including the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students. Martyn died on St David's Day (1 March 1981) and his wife, Bethan, in 1991. 1