My mother, Nia Roberts, who has died aged 92, was a nurse who went on to work for the British Council as a welfare officer and senior administrator in England and then Wales.
Nia was born in Bangor, north Wales, into a Welsh-speaking socialist family, the daughter of John (JH) Griffith, a minister at Capel Mawr in Denbigh, and Sali (nee Jones), a teacher at Howells school in Denbigh, where Nia was a pupil. After leaving school she trained as a nurse at Liverpool Royal Infirmary, where she later worked.
