Rosemary Ann Saunders was born in Bristol in 1955. She was educated at Colston’s Girls’ School Bristol and came to Girton College to study Geography, 1973-1976. She was an active member of the College choir and also in the Christian Union and MethSoc. She took her PGCE at Bristol University and after taught geography at schools: at Henry Fanshawe School Dronfield near Sheffield, Abingdon College, Gosforth High School in Newcastle upon Tyne and at the Cherwell School Oxford until 2009, followed by part-time work as founding Educational Advisor at TrinityLearning, (https://trinitylearning.org.uk/) based at Trinity Church in Abingdon until she retired in 2020. She married David Perrow (Jesus College, Geography 1973-1976) in 1977 and they had one daughter. Throughout her life Rosemary was an advocate and activist for the environment, and also for overseas aid, working as a volunteer and organiser for Christian Aid and Traidcraft. She was active in Methodist Church life, and was Senior Steward at All Saints Methodist Church Abingdon for a number of years. She also believed passionately in wider children’s education and for a time co-led the Woodcraft Folk in Abingdon. Rosemary died in February 2021. [Notes drawn from Girton College Register Vol. III; The Year 2020/21; an online ‘Celebration of the Life of Rosemary Perrow’; and from the donor.]