Background
Nancy Wilkinson was born Nancy Barbara Constance Bird in London in 1919.
Nancy Wilkinson was born Nancy Barbara Constance Bird in London in 1919.
She studied modern languages and music at Cambridge from 1937 to 1941, and during World World War II worked for the intelligence service at Bletchley Park.
She taught at the Cambridgeshire College of Arts and Technology (now the Anglia Ruskin University). In the 1972 Mastermind series her specialised subjects were French literature, European antiques, and the history of music 1550–1900. Wilkinson died in 1999 at the age of 80.