Tessa Elizabeth Warburg (Lorant)

Born: Berlin, Germany, 25th February 1929, 1.30 am

Hungarian at birth, naturalised US  Dec 22nd, 1946  , naturalised British 31st Dec, 1958   .

Married:Jeremy Fredric Warburg, 24th Dec 1953, Madison, Wisconsin, USA

Academic Qualifications:

BA Hons (Mathematics), University of London, 1951

MA (Mathematics), University of Wisconsin, 1954

Inventions:

UK Patent No 2,114,514 for ‘Lorant Locator’, a reading aid, 1985

US Patent No 4,697,346 for ‘Silver Gauge’, a yarn gauge, 1987

Jobs: Actuarial Dept, NY Life Insurance Company 1951

         Computer Programmer, Electronic Computer Corp, NY 1951-2

         Graduate Assistant, University of Wisconsin, 1952-3

         Part-time teaching at Colleges of Further Education and schools

         Monthly Column in Modern Knitting Magazine

From 1979: Writer, fiction and non-fiction