Gabrielle Lambrick

She was born in Wandsworth in London in 1913,[1] the daughter of Isabel Evelyn née Henderson and Herbert Henry Jennings,[2] a hospital administrator and art collector.

At the end of the war she was appointed principal in the Overseas Finance Section which lead to her taking part in delegations to Washington, Berlin and Vienna.

During March to April 1947 she was a member of the British delegation at the fourth meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers in Moscow, but by this time the Cold War was gathering pace and they failed to agree on a peace treaty for Germany and Austria.

She devoted the rest of her life to this project with the support of Helen Cam and other eminent historians of medieval England including Vivian Hunter Galbraith and William Abel Pantin.

By the time of her death in 1968 these remained unpublished until they were picked up in 1982 by Cecil Slade, a medieval historian and the head of archaeology at the University of Reading who completed her work leading to their publication by the Oxford Historical Society in 1990 and 1992.

[3] Between 1960 and 1968 Lambrick published a number of articles about Abingdon and its environs in Oxoniensia; The English Historical Review; The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, and in Medieval Archaeology.