Mrs Wren Robinson first went to South Africa in 1928, as a geography teacher in Johannesburg. While living in England in the 1960s she and her husband, Patrick Robinson, became interested in Lesotho through their part in a project organised by the Esher Branch of 'Freedom from Hunger'. After paying visits in 1964 and 1965, they decided to settle there in 1966. They spent the ensuing ten years in Southern Africa, first in Lesotho and, from 1971, at Melmoth in Zululand. While they returned to the U.K. in 1976, they paid another visit in 1979. Mr Robinson died in May 1980 and Mrs Robinson revisited Lesotho in 1981.