Allison Douglas
Allison Douglas, who died, at the age of 56, with her husband John
Edwards, was born in Deniliquin, Australia, and spent her childhood
moving around outback New South Wales as her father directed the
engineering of dams and irrigation schemes. She finished school in
Sydney and worked there as a legal secretary before travelling to
Europe in 1970, supposedly for six months.
There, she met
John; two years later, their daughter Jo was born. Allison took
first-class honours in statistics at the then North London
Polytechnic, and an MSc in epidemiological statistics, before going
on to work in the epidemiological monitoring unit at the London
School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine .
She was involved in
groundbreaking studies of the effects of radiation exposure on
British Nuclear Fuel workers, and was co-author of a paper in the
British Medical Journal detailing this work. The results were
controversial and Allison was glad to stay out of the glare of media
attention that focused on the study and BNFL at the time.
When she and John moved to Wales, she took up spinning, dying,
weaving and bee-keeping. She was treasurer of the Gwent Bee-Keepers'
Association and the Monmouth tennis club. She created a beautiful
garden and she and John also worked hard in their woods, felling
firs, planting oaks, digging a pond and returning their ancient
woodland to an indigenous species mix. They had a rich cultural life
in Wales, enjoying local classical music festivals and Welsh
National Opera in Cardiff.
The Guardian, Thursday 3 November
2005
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