Early Life and Education
Derek Laud was born on 9 August 1964 in the Metropolitan Borough of Chelsea, London. His parents, Lyn and Samuel Laud, had emigrated to the United Kingdom from Jamaica in the late 1950s. Laud's mother was a nurse and his father left the family when Laud was eight.
As a child Laud became close to two middle aged sisters, Anne and Cecily Meehan, and went to live with them in Clapham following a breakdown in his relationship with his mother as a result of his revealing to her that he was homosexual at the age of 14; Laud had known that he was gay since he was eight. Laud later reconciled with his mother after a near 20 year estrangement. Anne Meehan was deputy headmistress of Falconbrook House School in Clapham, which Laud attended, and Cecily worked as a child psychologist. In an article for the Daily Mail in 2007 Laud described the sisters' importance in his life, and how he consults them on every major decision.
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