Elizabeth Anscombe [SEP] place of birth
Anscombe, on 18 March 1919, in Limerick, Ireland, where her father had been stationed with the Royal Welch Fusiliers during the Irish War of Independence. Both her mother and father were involved with education. Her mother was a headmistress and her father went on to head a department at Dulwich College.
Anscombe attended Sydenham High School and then, in 1937, went on to read "literae humaniores" ('Greats') at St Hugh's College, Oxford. She was awarded a Second Class in her honour
midst of widespread ignorance, doctrinal confusion, and moral rebellion, the Newman staked out its position in 1973, hosting an address by Elizabeth Anscombe titled "Contraception, Sin and Natural Law" - a philosophical defence of Pope Paul VI's encyclical on artificial birth control ("Humanae Vitae"). Yet the society was not so inflexible as to refuse to accommodate some new social realities; a 1972 termcard expressed the hope "that activists, gnomes, ravers and potential saints will be inspired by this... term's programme.