My husband, David Graham, who has died aged 91, lived a life committed to peace and social justice. In 1956, having read about Mahatma Gandhi, he decided to go to India and join Gandhi’s spiritual successor Vinoba Bhave’s Bhoodan Land Reform Movement. He walked from village to village asking landowners to give a portion of their land to the landless. The following year, he joined Howard Steele, who as a protest planned to sail a boat into the British atomic test area near Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean. David then worked on a leprosy colony called Anandavan.
On his return to Britain in 1958 he and I met at Marsham Farm hotel, in Fairlight, Sussex, where I was the cook. We married six weeks later, and soon moved to Bromley, Kent, where David worked as the south London organiser for Oxfam.
