Monica Jackson

Monica Jackson was born in south India and brought up on her parent’s coffee plantation in a wild and lonely hill range in Karnataka. She was educated in Britain and America, returned to India and was married in Bangalore. Both her children were born in India.

After the family left in the 1950s to live in Scotland, she became a dedicated mountaineer, and was a member of the first all-woman Himalayan expedition. She received her first degree from Cambridge as a mature student, and further post-graduate and doctoral degrees from Edinburgh University, the research for which was carried out in the part of India which had been her home.

Her interests included reading, human and animal welfare, walking in wild places and spritual exploration. She was a Quaker and in later life lived in Scotland until her death in April 2020.