My mother, Jennifer Preston, who has died aged 89, lived a long and varied life, characterised by care for others, especially children.
Jennifer’s career in education and charity work spanned more than 60 years, which enabled her to have a positive impact on the lives of hundreds of children and families. From around 1971 she worked as a freelance educational consultant, and taught children with complex special needs to read at the Cheyne Centre in Chelsea. She was proud that she once taught Nigella Lawson at the Vale school, a private preparatory school in Chelsea, where she worked, as the school secretary then a teacher, for about 10 years from 1959. Her interest in children with hearing impairment led her to co-author a respected text called Hearing Loss (1985).
