Jessie Mary Lloyd

Jessie Mary Lloyd previously Jessie Mary Griffiths and born Jessie Mary Hunt (13 June 1883 – 24 October 1960) was an Australian temperance campaigner. She was President of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union in Victoria in 1930 when 43% people polled were in favour of prohibition and from 1933 to 1945 she led the national WCTU.

Life Lloyd was born in Wolverhampton in the West Midlands in 1883 however before her first birthday she was emigrating. Her parents Louisa (born Griffiths) and Harry Hunt took their family to Melbourne in Australia on board the SS Lusitania. Lloyd was known as Griffiths-Lloyd She was on the WCTU education committee and she organising the elocution contest where children competed to be the best at reading aloud Temperance based poetry or prose.

In 1935 she wrote an article about how the human eye works for the Eyre Peninsula Tribune revealing it to be "a human camera" – that could be damaged by alcohol.

In 1936 she was elected President of the WCTU after serving as vice-president for three years. She served up to, and through the years of, the second world war and she stood down in 1945. She was also concerned about world hunger and she led the WCTU's interest in world peace. The Australian Association for Peace's convention in 1957 saw her as the WCTU's delegate. At her instigation the WCTU protested to the UK government over their use of Australian land to conduct testing of British atomic bombs.

Lloyd died, a widow for the second time, at her home in Blackburn.