Muriel Lloyd Prichard | |
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![]() Lloyd Prichard in 1958 | |
Born | Muriel Florence Jolliffe 13 September 1905
Pontypool, Wales |
Died | 23 October 1991
Edinburgh, Scotland | (aged 86)
Alma mater | University of Cambridge |
Occupation(s) | Academic, writer |
Notable work | An Economic History of New Zealand |
Muriel Florence Lloyd Prichard (née Jolliffe) (1905–1991) [1] [a] was a British academic, economist, and writer.
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]
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]
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]
Muriel Lloyd Prichard | |
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![]() Lloyd Prichard in 1958 | |
Born | Muriel Florence Jolliffe 13 September 1905
Pontypool, Wales |
Died | 23 October 1991
Edinburgh, Scotland | (aged 86)
Alma mater | University of Cambridge |
Occupation(s) | Academic, writer |
Notable work | An Economic History of New Zealand |
Muriel Florence Lloyd Prichard (née Jolliffe) (1905–1991) [1] [a] was a British academic, economist, and writer.
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]
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]
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]