Susanna Meredith

Susanna Meredith (née Lloyd; 1823–1901) was a 19th-century Irish-born prison visitor and pioneer for the rehabilitation of female prisoners.

Biography Susanna Lloyd was born in Ireland, her father was the governor of Cork County Gaol. As a child she learned Latin, Hebrew, French and German. At the age of 17, she married a doctor, but was widowed after seven years of marriage. In 1860 she moved to London with her mother and, concerned with employment opportunities for women, began editing Alexandra magazine.

Meredith later turned her attention to the children of convicted women and in 1871 her first home for such children was opened in Addlestone, Surrey by Princess Mary.