She was one of the “Cleminson Girls” – Audrey, Elizabeth, Lorna, Mary, and Marjorie – who came together in a Hull University Hall of Residence, part of that wave of first-time undergraduates, thanks to the 1944 Education Act. Unlike many of that generation who went on to play prominent parts in the future, Meta (as we knew her) was content to lead her distinctive life unobtrusively but with great integrity.
I knew her well through her best Cleminson friend and was thus more than just pleased to be in contact with her over the intervening years. So I remember her as a steadfast and loyal friend, of whom I heard nothing but good.
So, with her passing, I think of Wordsworth’s Lucy (“A violet by a mossy stone, Half hidden from the eye”); she
“lived unknown, and few could know;
But she is in her grave, and, oh,
The difference to me!”
John Shelton
February 5th, 2025.
Dr John K Shelton
05/02/2025
