I was the cleaner for Prof Owen Chadwick and his wife,Ruth, at the master’s lodge of Selwyn College, and Cambridge,in 1977-78. It was a short but happy time, and I maintain much to thank them for.
Both Owen and Ruth were unerringly kind, or with a great generosity of spirit. They included me in anything going on in the house such as visits by famous guests,and gave me books for my children. I remember conversations during coffee breaks, when Ruth worried that appointments at the college were being made without candidates even being aware they were in a choice process, and that Igor the family’s dog was unwell.
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Source: theguardian.com