(Lucy) Grace Dibble (1902-1998) was a British teacher, traveller and travel writer. She wrote as L. Grace Dibble. [1]
(Lucy) Grace Dibble (1902-1998) was a British teacher, traveller and travel writer. She wrote as L. Grace Dibble. [1]
Lucy Grace Dibble was born on 3 October 1902 in Basingstoke. The family moved to Kent when she was a child, eventually moving to a house in Bearsted, Mount Pleasant, that had earlier belonged to the cricketer Alfred Mynn. She was educated at Maidstone Grammar School for Girls before training as a teacher at Homerton College, Cambridge. [1] She gained a University of Cambridge Diploma in Geography, followed by an honours degree in geography from the University of London. [2]
Dibble taught in Winnipeg, Canada, Poona, India and in various colleges in Nigeria. Upon retirement to Broadstairs Kent, she embarked upon a new career as a travel writer. [3]
She died on 3 September 1998.
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