My father’s companion, Felicity Grainger, who has died aged 80, started her working life as a analysis scientist earlier than shifting into the world of educational libraries, ultimately changing into head of the library companies serving three main medical colleges.
Born in Bournemouth to Stuart Grainger, a financial institution supervisor, and Phyllis (nee Brett), after gaining a first-class honours diploma in zoology in 1964 from Queen Mary Faculty, London, Felicity obtained a doctorate in anatomy from College Faculty London, after which she spent 10 years as a researcher in neuroscience in London and Cambridge.
The whole lot modified, nevertheless, when she went by way of an extended turbulent interval in her private life from the mid-Nineteen Seventies to the top of the 80s. Two marriages, the primary to an architect, Andrew Chadwick, the second to an anatomy professor, Keith Webster, resulted in divorce, and in between these relationships the lack of her boyfriend, Peter Gibbs, within the Nice Mull Air Thriller meant that, by 1990, she was in search of a recent begin. This got here along with her appointment as a medical sciences librarian on the College of Glasgow.
Relatively to her personal shock she fell in love with Glasgow, and made it her house for the remainder of her life. On the college she helped to construct a stronger relationship between its library and its medical college at a time when digital assets have been altering how medical college students have been taught and accessed info.
Relatively reluctantly she left there in 1997 to change into director of knowledge and library companies at Man’s and St Thomas’ in London, the place she oversaw the difficult merger of her division with King’s Faculty, returning every weekend to her house in Glasgow.
That process efficiently achieved, she retired to Glasgow, the place she participated totally within the cultural and mental lifetime of town as president of the Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow, an energetic member of the Glasgow Artwork Membership, and an enthusiastic supporter of Scottish Opera and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra.
Lovely and charismatic in her youth, she remained elegant, witty, waspish and immaculately dressed into previous age, at all times in her signature black and white. A lifelong fan of The Archers, she may by no means be disturbed on Sunday mornings earlier than the top of the omnibus version.
She is survived by her companion of the previous 30 years, Ronald Singleton.
