My wife, Lorraine Tollemache, who has died aged 82, was an artist, teacher, social worker and psychotherapist. She was best known for her work as a senior clinical lecturer who trained social workers at the Tavistock Clinic in London.
Born in Quetta, in what is now Pakistan, to Leila (nee Portlock) and Freddy Allen, a brigadier in the Indian Army, Lorraine was the eldest of three sisters. Her father was from Bray in County Wicklow, Ireland, and she was always proud of her Irish heritage. After Partition in India, the family returned to England on the Empire Windrush in 1947, leaving from Karachi, and settled in Surrey. She attended Guildford high school and then Roedean school in Brighton, East Sussex, where she excelled at English and art.
