During travel, she met her future husband, David McDowall, who she said was very kind to her when she was airsick on a plane. She and a friend would hire mules and go into remote areas in the holidays.Īfter a while at Edinburgh University, Laird worked in India for a summer. She decided to continue her adventurous life, even though she was bitten by a poisonous snake and went down with typhoid.Īfter attending the university in Bristol, Laird began teaching English in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. When she was eighteen, Laird started teaching at a school in Malaysia. In 1945, Laird and her family returned to Britain and she grew up in South London, where she was educated at Croydon High School. Her father was a ship's surgeon both he and Laird's mother were Scottish. Laird was born in New Zealand in 1943, the fourth of five children.
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