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==Early history==
Dumas was born in [[Mount Barker, South Australia]], the fourth child and youngest of three sons of Amelia Dumas, née Paltridge, (died 1 November 1938) and [[Charles Dumas (newspaperman)|Charles Dumas]] (1851–1935), who founded the [[The Courier (Mount Barker)|Mount Barker ''Courier'']]. A grandmother was a sister of Mount Barker pioneer [[John Dunn (miller)|John Dunn]] and his grandfather, Victor Dumas, ran a highly praised private school in Mount Barker.
He was educated at Mount Barker and [[Victor Harbor, South Australia|Victor Harbor]] and in 1904 won a scholarship to the Teachers' College.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article88382378 |title=Bursaries and Exhibitions |newspaper=[[The Chronicle (Adelaide)|The Chronicle]] |location=Adelaide |date=31 December 1904 |accessdate=28 December 2014 |page=38 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref> He quit his studies in late 1906 or early 1907 to work for the Adelaide ''[[Advertiser (Adelaide)|Advertiser]]''<ref name=retirement>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article107030863 |title=Sir Lloyd Dumas to retire. |newspaper=[[Canberra Times]] |date=9 March 1967 |accessdate=29 December 2014 |page=39 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref> and in mid-1910 helped out as interim [[Murray Bridge, South Australia|Murray Bridge]] correspondent for his father's newspaper.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article147739504 |title=A Popular Journalist |newspaper=[[The Courier (Mount Barker)|The Mount Barker Courier and Onkaparinga and Gumeracha Advertiser]] |location=SA |date=10 June 1910 |accessdate=28 December 2014 |page=4 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref> In 1911 he was one of the founders of the South Australian branch of the [[Australian Journalists' Association]].<ref name=adb>S. Cockburn, [http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/dumas-sir-frederick-lloyd-10058/text17741 'Dumas, Sir Frederick Lloyd (1891–1973)'], ''Australian Dictionary of Biography'', National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, published first in hardcopy 1996, accessed online 29 December 2014</ref> In 1914 he left for Victoria.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article59364840 |title=Personalities of the Week |newspaper=[[The Mail (Adelaide)|The Mail]] |location=Adelaide |date=12 December 1914 |accessdate=28 December 2014 |page=9 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref>
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