Annie Lloyd Evans (b. c. 1874 – d. after 1936) was principal of a teachers' college in London, and a scholar of women's higher education.
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Early life
Annie Lloyd Evans was the eldest daughter of Annie Lloyd Evans and John Lloyd Evans, a Welsh justice of the peace and newspaper man in Warwick; her father later served as mayor of Warwick. She attended the Kings High School for Girls, and attended the University of St. Andrews, one of the first women students admitted.
Career
Lloyd Evans taught briefly at Llanidloes Intermediate School and Blackburn High School, before accepting the job of "lady superintendent" (vice principal) at Church of Ireland Training College, Dublin in 1898. Her sister Mary Lloyd Evans, also educated at St. Andrews, 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. In 1929, she became a member of the Central Advisory Committee to evaluate teacher training programs 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 "The Children's Hour," a program on BBC radio. 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.