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husband remained in India working for the last Governor of Bengal until partition. When he returned to England two more children were born, keeping Betty fully occupied, but as they grew and before further involvement in grandchildren and great-grandchildren she devoted herself to her passion for walking in the British countryside, especially Monmouthshite. As her son Charles has written: ‘In another age she would have had a career, but she was happy to be a devoted mother and wife’. Searle. On 9 December 2009, Jennifer Anne (1958 History). After graduation she completed a Graduate Certificate in Education at the Institute of Education, University of London. She taught history at Brondesbury and Kilburn High School from 1962. In 1968 she returned to Cambridge to research ‘Theories of the Imagination in English Literature 1834–60’ at Wolfson College. In 1972 she was appointed to a Lectureship in English at the University of East Anglia and thereafter she divided her time between Norwich and Oxford, where she conducted tutorials in English for a number of colleges. In the late 1980s she moved permanently to Oxford and continued with her tutorials. Jennifer was a regular reviewer for the Times Higher Educational Supplement, the Times Literary Supplement and the Cambridge Review. Shipway. In January 2010, Cynthia Overton (Preston) MA (1938 Classics). Cynthia was educated at Malvern Girls’ College in Worcestershire before she came up to Girton in 1938 to read Classics. A year later her sister joined her at Cambridge University but chose to go to Newnham. Cynthia always said that she loved her first year but the rigours of her second and third years, once the war had started, meant that she ‘couldn’t wait to get away’. On graduating she worked for the Ministry of Information in the Foreign Office as an Assistant Specialist and stayed on for several years after the end of the War. She then spent three years abroad, as an Administration Assistant to the Press Attaché at the British Embassy in Athens, before joining the WRAF in 1951 for five years as a Flying Officer. Appointed as Clerk to the University of Bristol Appointments Board in 1957, she met and married Harold Shipway, an RAF Officer, in 1963. She completed her working career with the University. Harold died in 1986 and some years later Cynthia moved to live with her sister in Hertfordshire. She was an active member of the WI, the National Trust and her local Gardening Club. She was also a stalwart supporter of her local church activities. Simpson. On 25 September 2009, Mari Rebecca MA MB BChir (1941 Natural Sciences). She was educated at Llanelli Girls’ County School before she came up to Girton. She married a fellow medical student at the start of her third year but completed her degree in 1944 and moved to Bristol for an MA, before undertaking her Clinical training at London in 1947. She had two sons who, like their parents, also became doctors. Mari’s own career began in Anaesthetics and Physical Medicine at the Leicester Royal Infirmary but she went on to work in Neurology at the Derby and Leicester Royal Infirmary. She spent her whole working life dedicated to the National Health Service and was a Founder and Senior Member of the Leicester branch of the Family Planning Association. She was also an active member of the Medical Women’s Federation and the Leicester Medical Society. During her retirement she was able to indulge her interests in fishing and gardening. Strachan. In October 2009, Barbara Anne (Jones) BA (1947 Modern and Medieval Languages). Barbara said she only went to university to please her mother, but she nevertheless won the Fanny Metcalfe Prize and, in her second year, a scholarship. She was, however, disappointed that the MML course at that time concentrated so much on literature rather than linguistics or the practical application of language. She filled her spare time with the French Society, the Liberal Club and the ADC, as well as the Fellowship of Reconciliation which led her to lifelong commitment as a Quaker. On graduating she entered the Civil Service working for 117