Nora Beloff

She worked for The Observer for three decades, from 1948 to 1978, and became a political correspondent in 1964, making her the first woman in such a role for a British newspaper.

[2] She attended King Alfred School and read history at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, graduating in 1940.

[3][4] After graduating from Oxford, Beloff worked for the British Foreign Office in 1941,[5] joining its political intelligence department.

She travelled extensively across Europe in her later career and, while reporting on the persecution of Soviet Jews, was arrested in Georgia and expelled from Yugoslavia.

[3] After her death, Beloff's former editor Donald Trelford wrote that she "had one of the most distinguished careers any woman has had in British journalism".