OBITUARY

Kitty Muggeridge THE WIFE OF author, broadcaster and one-time Catholic Herald columnist Malcolm Muggeridge has died at the age of 90. Kitty Muggeridge will be remembered in her own right in particular as editor of the influential 14th century devotional work, The Cloud of Unknowing.
Born Kathleen Rosalind Dobbs in Switzerland in December 1903, she was one of five children. Her aunt, whose biography she was later to write, was the Fabian founder Beatrice Webb.
She had an unconventional upbringing in the shadow of her father George Dobbs, who organised skiing tours for a pioneering tour operator, and his influence helped her go on to become a women's skiing champion in 1924.
She was educated in England during the First World War and went on to become a secretary in the Parliamentary Labour Party Club. She studied for two years, but failed her exams, a diploma at the LSE, before marrying Muggeridge, whom she had met in Cambridge, in 1927.
She stayed loyal to her husband's journey from atheist to believer and was received into the Catholic Church alongside him in 1982.
She also cared for him in his last days at Robertsbridge, Sussex.