Muriel Lloyd Prichard

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]

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]

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.