Muriel Lloyd Prichard


Muriel Florence Lloyd Prichard was a British academic, economist, and writer.

Early life and education

Muriel Florence Jolliffe was born in Pontypool, Wales on 13 September 1905, the daughter of Frederick and Edith Jolliffe. Her father was a gas company clerk; her mother was a suffragette who believed that their four children should all receive a similar level of education.
She received an M.A. in Economics and Political Science from the University of Wales in 1930 and, in 1949, a PhD in Economics from the University of Cambridge.
In November 1939, she married John Lloyd Prichard, a major in the Royal Army Service Corps.

Career

In the 1940s, Lloyd Prichard served as secretary of the North Wales Women's Peace Council. She maintained an interest in social issues such as feminism and the peace movement throughout her life.
In the 1950s she lectured in economics at the University of Cambridge, and was a researcher in the Department of Political Economy at University College London.
In 1957, she was elected as a Cambridge City councillor for the Romsey ward. 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, but lost to the incumbent Conservative candidate,.
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.
In 1964, she was an invited speaker at the Australian Congress for International Co-operation and Disarmament in Sydney.
In 1971, she returned to the UK, settling in Scotland. She died in Edinburgh on 23 October 1991. Prior to her death, she had been working on a book on Scottish migration to New Zealand.

Publications

Lloyd Prichard is probably best known for her 1970 book An Economic History of New Zealand, and her edition of the collected works of Edward Gibbon Wakefield. She collaborated with Auckland University accountancy professor Bruce Tabb on several monographs. She also published on subjects such as the Chartist John Francis Bray, 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.

Books

The United States as a Financial Centre, 1919–1933, as M.F. Jolliffe
  • ''Economic Practice in New Zealand''

As editor

Collected Works of Edward Gibbon Wakefield The Future of New Zealand
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Selected articles and monographs