Muriel Lloyd Prichard
British academic, economist, and writer
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Muriel Florence Lloyd Prichard (née Jolliffe) (1905–1991)[1][a] was a British academic, economist, and writer.
13 September 1905
Muriel Lloyd Prichard | |
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Lloyd Prichard in 1958 | |
| Born | Muriel Florence Jolliffe 13 September 1905 Pontypool, Wales |
| Died | 23 October 1991 (aged 86) Edinburgh, Scotland |
| Education | University of Cambridge |
| Occupations | Academic, writer |
| Notable work | An Economic History of New Zealand |
Early life and education
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
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
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
Books
- 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
- John Francis Bray: A Voyage from Utopia (Lawrence & Wishart, 1957)
- Collected Works of Edward Gibbon Wakefield (Collins, 1968)
- The Future of New Zealand (Whitcombe & Tombs, 1964)
- Original Papers Regarding Trade in England and Abroad drawn up by John Keymer (Augustus M. Kelley, 1967)
Selected articles and monographs
- "The Ladies of Llangollen" (1945). Percy Brothers: London.
- "Understanding Korea". The Asiatic Review. January 1946, pp. 246–269.
- "Sarah Martin, 1791–1843: The Prisoners' Friend". The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice. July 1949. Vol 7 No 4, pp. 219–224.
- "Norfolk Friends' Care of Their Poor, 1700–1850". Journal of the Friends' Historical Society. Part I, Vol 39 (1947). Part II, Vol 40 (1948).
- "The Decline of Norwich". The Economic History Review, Vol. 3, No. 3 (1951), pp. 371–377.
- "The Alexander Family's Discount Company". Journal of the Friends' Historical Society. Vol 49 No 3 (Autumn 1960).
- The New Zealand General Election of 1960 (1961), with Bruce Tabb. University of Auckland.
- "Professor Fleeming Jenkin, 1833–1885 Pioneer in Engineering and Political Economy", with A.D. Brownlie. Oxford Economic Papers, Vol. 15, No. 3 (November 1963), pp. 204–216.
- "Wakefield Changes His Mind About the 'Sufficient Price'". International Review of Social History, Vol. 8, No. 2 (1963), pp. 251–269.
- Who Finances New Zealand Companies (1966), with Bruce Tabb. Blackwood & Janet Paul.
- One Hundred Years of the Auckland Gas Co. Ltd. (1968), with Bruce Tabb. Auckland Auckland Gas Co. Ltd.
Notes
- 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.