Rita Pankhurst
Lived 1927 to 2019 · aged 92
Rita Pankhurst was a Romanian-born, Oxford and Paris educated, linguist, reporter and librarian in Ethiopia and in the United Kingdom. She was a director of the Haile Selassie I University library until 1976. She returned to the UK and she the oversaw the acquisition of the Fawcett Library.
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After being at the centre of the Ethiopian administration she and her husband published their joint auto-biography.