Muriel Lloyd Prichard

Muriel Florence Jolliffe was born in Pontypool, Wales on 13 September 1905, the daughter of Frederick and Edith Jolliffe (née Rosser).{{cite book |title=Newnham College Register – Vol 2 (1924–1950) |publisher=University of Cambridge |pages=282–283}} Her father was a gas company clerk;{{cite web |title=1911 Wales Census |url=https://www.ancestry.com.au/sharing/3631200?mark=7b22746f6b656e223a2244463756576c45473575366d436f686174444a4c796f6d74564548424e55764139324a662f4d39414937383d222c22746f6b656e5f76657273696f6e223a225632227d |website=Ancestry.com |access-date=13 May 2023}} 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{{cite news |title=University of Wales – Degree Examination Results |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/124474353/ |work=Liverpool Post & Mercury |date=1 July 1930 |page=5|via=Newspapers.com}} 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.{{cite news |title=Obituary: Major John Lloyd Prichard |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/124791521/ |work=Western Mail |date=28 October 1954 |location=Cardiff, Wales|via=Newspapers.com}}

In the 1940s, Lloyd Prichard served as secretary of the North Wales Women's Peace Council.{{cite news |title=Indian Famine Relief Fund |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/124550265/ |work=North Wales Weekly News |date=21 October 1943 |page=8|via=Newspapers.com}} She maintained an interest in social issues such as feminism{{cite news |last1=Lloyd Prichard |first1=Muriel |title=Equality long way off |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19720226.2.60 |work=The Press |date=26 February 1972 |location=Christchurch, NZ |page=7|via=PapersPast}} and the peace movement throughout her life.{{cite book |editor1-last=Peterson |editor1-first=Christian Philip |editor2-last=Knoblauch |editor2-first=William M. |editor3-last=Loadenthal |editor3-first=Michael |title=The Routledge History of World Peace since 1750 |date=2019 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=9780367733599 |page=244}}{{cite journal |last1=Harvey |first1=Kyle |title=Nuclear Migrants, Radical Protest, and the Transnational Movement against French Nuclear Testing in the 1960s: The 1967 Voyage of the Trident |journal=Labour History |date=2016 |issue=111 |page=88 |doi=10.5263/labourhistory.111.0079}}{{cite book |last1=Holt |first1=Betty |title=Women for Peace and Freedom: A History of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom in New Zealand |date=1985 |publisher=Women's International League for Peace & Freedom |location=Wellington, NZ |isbn=9780959776409 |page=25}}

In the 1950s she lectured in economics at the University of Cambridge,{{cite news |title=Prospective Labour Candidate |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0003295/19580127/021/0001 |work=Halifax Evening Courier |date=27 January 1958|page=1|via=British Newspaper Archive}} {{subscription required}} and was a researcher in the Department of Political Economy at University College London.{{cite news |title=News in Brief: Prospective Candidate |work=The Times |date=1 February 1958 |page=3}}

In 1957, she was elected as a Cambridge City councillor for the Romsey ward.{{cite web |title=Cambridge City Council Elections – Romsey Ward |url=http://www.cambridgeelections.org.uk/candsl_o.htm#L |website=cambridgeelections.org.uk |access-date=13 May 2023}} 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,{{cite news |title=Woman Lecturer as Candidate |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/124124359/ |work=Birmingham Post & Gazette |date=28 January 1958|via=Newspapers.com}} but lost to the incumbent Conservative candidate, {{nowrap|R.W. Elliott}}.{{cite news |title=First Results in the General Election |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/124401114/ |work=The Guardian |date=9 October 1959 |pages=13|via=Newspapers.com}}

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.{{cite news |title=Grant for Wakefield's Collected Works |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19660331.2.20.9 |work=The Press |date=31 March 1966 |location=Christchurch, New Zealand |page=2|via=PapersPast}}

In 1964, she was an invited speaker at the Australian Congress for International Co-operation and Disarmament in Sydney.{{cite news |title=Protests over Govt visa ban on ICD Congress |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/236851090?browse=ndp%3Abrowse%2Ftitle%2FT%2Ftitle%2F1002%2F1964%2F10%2F14%2Fpage%2F25603616%2Farticle%2F236851090 |work=The Tribune |date=14 October 1964 |location=Sydney, Australia |page=2|via=Trove}}

In 1971, she returned to the UK, settling in Scotland.{{cite news |title=Feminist will keep up the fight |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19701208.2.53.3 |work=The Press |date=8 December 1970 |location=Christchurch, NZ |page=7|via=PapersPast}} She died in Edinburgh on 23 October 1991.{{cite web |title=Statutory registers – Deaths |url=https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/advanced-search/statutory-records/stat-deaths#form |website=Scotlandspeople.gov.uk |year=1991|access-date=11 May 2023|url-access=registration}} Death Certificate, Entry 358, Ref 742. Prior to her death, she had been working on a book on Scottish migration to New Zealand.{{cite news |title=Information Plea |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000578/19880218/144/0010 |work=Aberdeen Press & Journal |date=18 February 1988 |page=10|via=British Newspaper Archive}} {{subscription required}}

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 (1968).{{cite journal |last1=Pike |first1=Douglas |title=Reviews: The Collected Works of Edward Gibbon Wakefield |journal=Historical Studies |date=October 1969 |volume=14 |issue=53 |pages=109–110 |doi=10.1080/10314616908595412}}{{cite journal |last1=Shultz |first1=R. J. |title=The Collected Works of Edward Gibbon Wakefield ed. by M. F. Lloyd Prichard (review) |journal=New Zealand Journal of History |date=1971 |volume=5 |issue=1 |pages=97–98 |url=https://www.nzjh.auckland.ac.nz/docs/1971/NZJH_05_1_09.pdf |issn=2463-5057}} She collaborated with Auckland University accountancy professor Bruce Tabb on several monographs.{{cite news |title=Parliamentary Candidates Grouped By Research Team |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19601206.2.142 |work=The Press |date=6 December 1960 |location=Christchurch, NZ |page=18|via=PapersPast}}{{cite news |title=Survey Of Women Shareholders |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19660129.2.226 |work=The Press |date=29 January 1966 |location=Christchurch, NZ |page=21|via=PapersPast}} She also published on subjects such as the Chartist John Francis Bray,{{cite journal |last1=Lloyd Prichard |first1=M.F. |title=An Early English Socialist in Michigan |journal=Michigan Alumnus Quarterly Review |date=Autumn 1952 |volume=59 |issue=2 |pages=46–47 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qhdYAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA46 |publisher=Alumni Association of the University of Michigan. |language=en}} 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.{{cite web |title=Lloyd Prichard, Muriel F. |url=https://archives.library.auckland.ac.nz/agents/people/378 |website=Manuscripts and Archives |publisher=University of Auckland |access-date=19 April 2024}}

• The United States as a Financial Centre, 1919–1933 (University of Wales Press, 1935), as M.F. Jolliffe
• [https://archive.org/details/economichistoryo0000muri/ An Economic History of New Zealand to 1939] (Collins, 1970)
• Economic Practice in New Zealand (Collins, 1970)

• [https://archive.org/details/voyagefromutopia0000bray/ 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)
• [https://archive.org/details/originalpapers0000unse/ Original Papers Regarding Trade in England and Abroad drawn up by John Keymer] (Augustus M. Kelley, 1967)

• "The Ladies of Llangollen" (1945). Percy Brothers: London.
• "[https://archive.org/details/dli.calcutta.03668/page/264/mode/2up Understanding Korea]". The Asiatic Review. January 1946, pp. 246–269.
• "[https://www.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2311.1949.tb01178.x 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. [https://journals.sas.ac.uk/fhs/article/view/4336 Part I], Vol 39 (1947). [https://journals.sas.ac.uk/fhs/article/view/4346 Part II], Vol 40 (1948).
• "[https://doi.org/10.2307/2599994 The Decline of Norwich]". The Economic History Review, Vol. 3, No. 3 (1951), pp. 371–377.
• "[https://journals.sas.ac.uk/fhs/article/view/4588 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.
• "[https://www.jstor.org/stable/2661715 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.
• "[https://www.jstor.org/stable/44581502 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.

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