Liebeck was born in
Bromley on 11 July 1930, grew up in
Surrey, and read mathematics at
Somerville College, Oxford beginning in 1949. At Oxford, she also played on the cricket and tennis teams. After additional study at the
University of Cambridge, she became a mathematics teacher. Her husband Hans Liebeck was also an Oxford mathematics student; they met through a shared love of playing chamber music, married in 1953, and moved together to
Cape Town University in South Africa in 1955, where Liebeck taught mathematics part-time while raising two children and studying music. In 1961, Liebeck and her husband returned to England. As their (now three) children grew old enough, she returned to teaching, first at the Madeley College of Education in
Newcastle-under-Lyme (eventually part of
Staffordshire University) and then at
Keele University, where her husband had been posted since their return to England. Her son,
Martin W. Liebeck, became a mathematics professor at
Imperial College London. She died on 3 July 2012. ==Books==