Margaret C Anderson (known as Nan) was born in London on 24 June 1937, the daughter of Margaret Swainson Anderson (née Willis, Girton 1921) and Frank Anderson, and the granddaughter of Minnie Willis (née Baldwin, Girton 1890). Nan attended the Perse School for Girls in Cambridge for a time before boarding at Malvern Girls’ College, where her mother had taught from 1924 to 1925. Nan’s mother bequeathed 8 Cavendish Avenue, Cambridge to Girton in 1952 on condition that Girton would help Nan if she needed financial assistance to complete her education. She studied Natural Sciences at New Hall, Cambridge, from 1957 to 1963 and received financial assistance from Girton during that time. She became a Research Fellow at Newnham College from 1963 to 1966, working on plant growth in relation to light in woodland and forest vegetation. Nan Anderson had inherited the family home (Old Victoria Farmhouse in Hardwick, Cambridgeshire) on her mother’s death in 1952. She lived there for a time herself and donated it to Girton in the late 1990s (it was later sold by Girton). In the late 1960s Nan joined the Pye Laboratory, part of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), in Canberra, Australia, undertaking research on light in the canopy of eucalypt woodland and pine forests. Her work was published in numerous scientific journals. She appears to have remained with CSIRO until some time in the 1980s, working on land cover and land use. She was listed in the New Hall Directory of 2000 as still resident in Australia. Nan Anderson died on 7 August 2000. [Parts of this biographical note have been derived from an obituary published in the New Hall Society Review, 2000.]