My cousin Mary Wane, who has died aged 99, had a long career with the British Council from the end of the second world war onwards, promoting British culture to other parts of Europe.
She began her work at the council in 1945 with a posting to Austria as an interpreter for the occupying Allied Forces. After returning from Vienna in 1947, she was based in London with the British Council, but travelled extensively for the organisation in Europe, promoting educational links and exchanges with other European countries, including the Soviet Union, and organising exhibitions of the work of British artists such as Henry Moore and David Hockney.
