Meg, who died on December 31 2007, was born in 1921 in Leamington Spa, and grew up in France where her family were expatriates. She was a mischievous child, whose sense of humour often got her into trouble.
There’s a story of her brother reciting Kublai Khan, and Meg’s uncontrollable giggles when he reached, ‘As if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing’!
On leaving school she went to Bedford College, University of London. The college was evacuated to Cambridge, and she received an invitation from a group called the Cambridge Women’s Inter-Collegiate Christian Union. She went along, eagerly anticipating ‘jolly good grub and a jolly good dance’! But she must have been impressed nonetheless, because she went on going. One Sunday she heard a sermon about the road to Emmaus, and the words ‘their eyes were opened and they knew him’ suddenly became her own experience. There she found something which completely transformed her life — her faith in Jesus.
