Rita Pankhurst
Rita Pankhurst | |
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Pankhurst in 1960 | |
| Born | Rita Jacqueline Eldon 1927 |
| Died | 30 May 2019 (aged 91–92) |
| Education | Oxford University and Ecole Nationale des Langues Orientales Vivantes |
| Occupation | Librarian |
| Known for | university library director |
| Spouse | |
| Children | Alula and Helen |
Rita Pankhurst (née Eldon; 1927 – 30 May 2019) was a Romanian-born, Oxford and Paris educated, linguist, reporter and librarian in Ethiopia and in the United Kingdom. She was a director of the Haile Selassie I University library until 1976. She returned to the UK and she the oversaw the acquisition of the Fawcett Library. After being at the centre of the Ethiopian administration she and her husband published their joint auto-biography.