Annie Lloyd Evans (also Lloyd-Evans; 18 December 1873 – 20 February 1938) was a Welsh educator, principal of a teachers' college in London, and a scholar of women's higher education.
Early life and education Annie Lloyd Evans was born in Evesham, Worcestershire,1881 England Census the eldest daughter of John Lloyd Evans, a Welsh journalist, justice of the peace and newspaper proprietor, and Annie Pierce Lloyd Evans , a philanthropist and newspaper proprietor. She was baptised 18 January 1874 at St Lawrence's Church, Evesham.England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 The family later moved to Warwick, where her father served as mayor and her parents ran the Warwick Advertiser.Arthur Mee, "John Lloyd Evans" Who's Who in Wales (Western Mail Limited 1921): 130. She was educated at the Kings High School for Girls in Warwick before attending the University of St. Andrews as one of its first female students.University of St. Andrews, The Matriculation Roll of the University of St. Andrews, 1747-1897 (W. Blackwood and Sons 1905): 326."Welsh News and Notes" The Cambrian 28(8)(August 1908): 355.
Career Lloyd Evans taught briefly at Llanidloes Intermediate School and Blackburn High School,Susan M. Parkes, Kildare Place: The History of the Church of Ireland Training College, 1811-1969 (CICE 1984): 96-98, 116. before accepting the job of "lady superintendent" (vice principal) at Church of Ireland Training College, Dublin in 1898.Christine Heward, "Men and Women and the Rise of Professional Society: The Intriguing History of Teacher Educators" History of Education 22(1)(1993): 11-32. DOI: 10.1080/0046760930220102 Her sister Mary Lloyd Evans, also educated at St. Andrews,University of St. Andrews, Calendar for the Year 1902 (William Blackwood & Sons 1902): 247. succeeded her in the job. In 1908, the London County Council appointed Annie Lloyd Evans principal of the Fulham Training School for Women Teachers.
She was a charter member of the general committee of the Training College Association when it formed in 1917."Training College Association" Journal of Experimental Pedagogy 4(1918): 102. In 1929, she became a member of the Central Advisory Committee to evaluate teacher training programmes in England. Lloyd Evans presented her experiences and research about teacher training at academic conferences and journals, and at least once (on 16 January 1935) on an episode of Children's Hour on BBC Radio.Genome Labs, BBC Radio, Regional Programme (16 March 1935). Her 1936 article in the British Journal of Educational Psychology, "The Place of Psychology in the Training of Teachers," is still cited for the snapshot it provides of a profession in the midst of change.Ashley Rogers Berner, "Metaphysics in Educational Theory: Educational Philosophy and Teacher Training in England (1839-1944)" (thesis, Trinity College Oxford, 2008): 37-38, in the Oxford University Research Archive. While the thesis author refers to 'A. Lloyd-Evans' as 'he', this was a paper by Miss Annie Lloyd Evans.Adrian Wooldridge, Measuring the Mind: Education and Psychology in England, c1860-c1990 (Cambridge University Press 2006): 54.
She died at the Beaumont Nursing Home in London, aged 64, and was buried in Warwick.Warwick, England, Burial Slips from Warwick Cemetery, 1859-1968
External links A 1920 portrait of Mrs. Annie Lloyd-Evans, Miss Lloyd Evans's mother, in the collection of the Imperial War Museum. Joan D. Browne and Susan Parkes, "Annie Lloyd Evans" History of Education Society Bulletin 29(Spring 1982): 36-40.
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