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Muriel Lloyd Prichard

Muriel Florence Lloyd Prichard (née Jolliffe) (1905–1991)[1][a] was a British academic, economist, and writer.

Muriel Lloyd Prichard
Lloyd Prichard in 1958
Born
Muriel Florence Jolliffe

(1905-09-13)13 September 1905
Pontypool, Wales
Died23 October 1991(1991-10-23) (aged 86)
Edinburgh, Scotland
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge
Occupation(s)Academic, writer
Notable workAn Economic History of New Zealand

Early life and education edit

Muriel Florence Jolliffe was born in Pontypool, Wales on 13 September 1905, the daughter of Frederick and Edith Jolliffe (née Rosser).[3] Her father was a gas company clerk;[4] her mother was a suffragette who believed that their four children (two girls and two boys) should all receive a similar level of education.[5]

She received an M.A. in Economics and Political Science from the University of Wales in 1930[6] and, in 1949, a PhD in Economics from the University of Cambridge.[3]

In November 1939, she married John Lloyd Prichard (1886–1954), a major in the Royal Army Service Corps.[3][7]

Career edit

In the 1940s, Lloyd Prichard served as secretary of the North Wales Women's Peace Council.[8] She maintained an interest in social issues such as feminism[5][9] and the peace movement throughout her life.[10][11][12]

In the 1950s she lectured in economics at the University of Cambridge,[13] and was a researcher in the Department of Political Economy at University College London.[14]

In 1957, she was elected as a Cambridge City councillor for the Romsey ward.[15] In 1958, representing the Labour Party, she became the first woman to stand as a parliamentary candidate for the constituency of Newcastle-on-Tyne North,[13][16] but lost to the incumbent Conservative candidate, R.W. Elliott.[17]

In 1959, she moved to New Zealand, where she became a senior lecturer and later an associate professor of economic history at the University of Auckland.[18]

In 1964, she was an invited speaker at the Australian Congress for International Co-operation and Disarmament in Sydney.[19]

In 1971, she returned to the UK, settling in Scotland.[5] She died in Edinburgh on 23 October 1991.[20] Prior to her death, she had been working on a book on Scottish migration to New Zealand.[21]

Publications edit

Lloyd Prichard is probably best known for her 1970 book An Economic History of New Zealand,[5] and her edition of the collected works of Edward Gibbon Wakefield (1968).[22][23] She collaborated with Auckland University accountancy professor Bruce Tabb on several monographs.[24][25] She also published on subjects such as the Chartist John Francis Bray,[26] The Ladies of Llangollen, engineer Fleeming Jenkin, and prison reformer Sarah Martin.

Some of her manuscripts and papers are held by the University of Auckland.[27]

Bibliography edit

Books edit

  • The United States as a Financial Centre, 1919–1933 (University of Wales Press, 1935), as M.F. Jolliffe
  • An Economic History of New Zealand to 1939 (Collins, 1970)
  • Economic Practice in New Zealand (Collins, 1970)

As editor edit

Selected articles and monographs edit

Notes edit

  1. ^ Although many sources spell her surname as Lloyd-Prichard, she herself did not hyphenate her married name. The birth/death dates of 1906–1992 given by the National Portrait Gallery[2] are incorrect, as is the 1938 birthdate given by VIAF.

References edit

  1. ^ "Author search: Lloyd Prichard, Muriel F., 1905-1991". Christchurch City Libraries. Retrieved 13 May 2023.
  2. ^ "Muriel Florence Lloyd-Prichard". National Portrait Gallery. Retrieved 13 May 2023.
  3. ^ a b c Newnham College Register – Vol 2 (1924–1950). University of Cambridge. pp. 282–283.
  4. ^ "1911 Wales Census". Ancestry.com. Retrieved 13 May 2023.
  5. ^ a b c d "Feminist will keep up the fight". The Press. Christchurch, NZ. 8 December 1970. p. 7 – via PapersPast.
  6. ^ "University of Wales – Degree Examination Results". Liverpool Post & Mercury. 1 July 1930. p. 5 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ "Obituary: Major John Lloyd Prichard". Western Mail. Cardiff, Wales. 28 October 1954 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ "Indian Famine Relief Fund". North Wales Weekly News. 21 October 1943. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ Lloyd Prichard, Muriel (26 February 1972). "Equality long way off". The Press. Christchurch, NZ. p. 7 – via PapersPast.
  10. ^ Peterson, Christian Philip; Knoblauch, William M.; Loadenthal, Michael, eds. (2019). The Routledge History of World Peace since 1750. Routledge. p. 244. ISBN 9780367733599.
  11. ^ Harvey, Kyle (2016). "Nuclear Migrants, Radical Protest, and the Transnational Movement against French Nuclear Testing in the 1960s: The 1967 Voyage of the Trident". Labour History (111): 88. doi:10.5263/labourhistory.111.0079.
  12. ^ Holt, Betty (1985). Women for Peace and Freedom: A History of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom in New Zealand. Wellington, NZ: Women's International League for Peace & Freedom. p. 25. ISBN 9780959776409.
  13. ^ a b "Prospective Labour Candidate". Halifax Evening Courier. 27 January 1958. p. 1 – via British Newspaper Archive. (subscription required)
  14. ^ "News in Brief: Prospective Candidate". The Times. 1 February 1958. p. 3.
  15. ^ "Cambridge City Council Elections – Romsey Ward". cambridgeelections.org.uk. Retrieved 13 May 2023.
  16. ^ "Woman Lecturer as Candidate". Birmingham Post & Gazette. 28 January 1958 – via Newspapers.com.
  17. ^ "First Results in the General Election". The Guardian. 9 October 1959. p. 13 – via Newspapers.com.
  18. ^ "Grant for Wakefield's Collected Works". The Press. Christchurch, New Zealand. 31 March 1966. p. 2 – via PapersPast.
  19. ^ "Protests over Govt visa ban on ICD Congress". The Tribune. Sydney, Australia. 14 October 1964. p. 2 – via Trove.
  20. ^ "Statutory registers – Deaths". Scotlandspeople.gov.uk. 1991. Retrieved 11 May 2023. Death Certificate, Entry 358, Ref 742.
  21. ^ "Information Plea". Aberdeen Press & Journal. 18 February 1988. p. 10 – via British Newspaper Archive. (subscription required)
  22. ^ Pike, Douglas (October 1969). "Reviews: The Collected Works of Edward Gibbon Wakefield". Historical Studies. 14 (53): 109–110. doi:10.1080/10314616908595412.
  23. ^ Shultz, R. J. (1971). "The Collected Works of Edward Gibbon Wakefield ed. by M. F. Lloyd Prichard (review)" (PDF). New Zealand Journal of History. 5 (1): 97–98. ISSN 2463-5057.
  24. ^ "Parliamentary Candidates Grouped By Research Team". The Press. Christchurch, NZ. 6 December 1960. p. 18 – via PapersPast.
  25. ^ "Survey Of Women Shareholders". The Press. Christchurch, NZ. 29 January 1966. p. 21 – via PapersPast.
  26. ^ Lloyd Prichard, M.F. (Autumn 1952). "An Early English Socialist in Michigan". Michigan Alumnus Quarterly Review. 59 (2). Alumni Association of the University of Michigan.: 46–47.
  27. ^ "Lloyd Prichard, Muriel F." Manuscripts and Archives. University of Auckland. Retrieved 19 April 2024.
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