Ida Margaret Gaskin was a Welsh-born New Zealand schoolteacher and politician. She was known for her knowledge of Shakespeare, and for becoming the first woman in New Zealand to win the local version of Mastermind.
Early life and family
Gaskin was born in Pontardawe, a steel mill town in Glamorgan, Wales in 1919, the daughter of Edward Jacobs and Edith Jacobs (née Skinner), ==Teaching career==
In 1983, Gaskin competed on and won the New Zealand version of the television quiz show Mastermind, with the specialist subject of the works of Shakespeare. She was the first woman to win Mastermind in New Zealand. ==Political career==