Muriel Lloyd Prichard Explained

Muriel Lloyd Prichard
Birth Name:	Muriel Florence Jolliffe
Birth Date:	13 September 1905
Birth Place:	Pontypool, Wales
Death Place:	Edinburgh, Scotland
Alma Mater:	University of Cambridge
Occupation:	Academic, writer
Notable Works:	An Economic History of New Zealand

Muriel Florence Lloyd Prichard (née Jolliffe) (1905–1991)^[1] 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 (née Rosser).^[2] Her father was a gas company clerk;^[3] her mother was a suffragette who believed that their four children (two girls and two boys) 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^[4] and, in 1949, a PhD in Economics from the University of Cambridge.

In November 1939, she married John Lloyd Prichard (1886–1954), a major in the Royal Army Service Corps.^[5]

Career

In the 1940s, Lloyd Prichard served as secretary of the North Wales Women's Peace Council.^[6] She maintained an interest in social issues such as feminism^[7] and the peace movement throughout her life.^{[8] [9] [10]}

In the 1950s she lectured in economics at the University of Cambridge,^[11] and was a researcher in the Department of Political Economy at University College London.^[12]

In 1957, she was elected as a Cambridge City councillor for the Romsey ward.^[13] 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,^[14] but lost to the incumbent Conservative candidate, .^[15]

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.^[16]

In 1964, she was an invited speaker at the Australian Congress for International Co-operation and Disarmament in Sydney.^[17]

In 1971, she returned to the UK, settling in Scotland.^[18] She died in Edinburgh on 23 October 1991.^[19] Prior to her death, she had been working on a book on Scottish migration to New Zealand.^[20]

Publications

Lloyd Prichard is probably best known for her 1970 book An Economic History of New Zealand,^[18] and her edition of the collected works of Edward Gibbon Wakefield (1968).^{[21] [22]} She collaborated with Auckland University accountancy professor Bruce Tabb on several monographs.^{[23] [24]} She also published on subjects such as the Chartist John Francis Bray,^[25] 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.^[26]

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 and References

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