Muriel Florence Lloyd Prichard (née Jolliffe) (1905–1991)[1][a] 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).[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]
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 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]
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.
^Lloyd Prichard, Muriel (26 February 1972).
"Equality long way off". The Press. Christchurch, NZ. p. 7 – via PapersPast.
^Peterson, Christian Philip; Knoblauch, William M.; Loadenthal, Michael, eds. (2019). The Routledge History of World Peace since 1750. Routledge. p. 244.
ISBN9780367733599.
^Harvey, Kyle (2016). "Nuclear Migrants, Radical Protest, and the Transnational Movement against French Nuclear Testing in the 1960s: The 1967 Voyage of the Trident". Labour History (111): 88.
doi:
10.5263/labourhistory.111.0079.
^Holt, Betty (1985). Women for Peace and Freedom: A History of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom in New Zealand. Wellington, NZ: Women's International League for Peace & Freedom. p. 25.
ISBN9780959776409.
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ab"Prospective Labour Candidate". Halifax Evening Courier. 27 January 1958. p. 1 – via British Newspaper Archive. (subscription required)
^"News in Brief: Prospective Candidate". The Times. 1 February 1958. p. 3.
^"Statutory registers – Deaths". Scotlandspeople.gov.uk. 1991. Retrieved 11 May 2023. Death Certificate, Entry 358, Ref 742.
^"Information Plea". Aberdeen Press & Journal. 18 February 1988. p. 10 – via British Newspaper Archive. (subscription required)
^Pike, Douglas (October 1969). "Reviews: The Collected Works of Edward Gibbon Wakefield". Historical Studies. 14 (53): 109–110.
doi:
10.1080/10314616908595412.
^Lloyd Prichard, M.F. (Autumn 1952).
"An Early English Socialist in Michigan". Michigan Alumnus Quarterly Review. 59 (2). Alumni Association of the University of Michigan.: 46–47.