Mary Maytham Kidd

[1] Born in East London, she was educated at Roedean School in Johannesburg between 1927 and 1930 and, between 1931 and 1933, studied at the Sorbonne in Paris.

The University of Cape Town archives acquired her sketchbooks, diaries and other documents after her death.

They show that she undertook a 1936 canoe trip down the Danube and visited Nyasaland and the Zomba Plateau in 1943.

She married Hubert John Kidd (1896-1963), headmaster of the Diocesan College of Bishops in Rondebosch, on 28 May 1948.

Mary died of congestive cardiac failure on 8 April 2001 in Maitland, Cape Town.