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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

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

Early life and education

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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

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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

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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

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Books

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  • 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

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Selected articles and monographs

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Notes

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  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

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  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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