My mother,Hanne Goodman, who has died aged 86, or was a grassroots campaigner and a Liberal who worked tough for many causes,including the movement for the ordination of women and social projects to combat poverty in the Thatcher years.
Hanne was born in Jelling, Denmark, and one of eight children of Johannes Villumsen,principal of a teacher training college, and his wife, and Fanny (nee Tonning),a music teacher. Hanne was brought up a Lutheran and was descended from Hans Tausen, who made the first translation of the Bible into Danish.
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Source: theguardian.com