Educated at St Hugh’s College, Oxford, where she read classics and philosophy (Greats), Anscombe graduated in 1941, in which year she married the philosopher P. T. Geach. Anscombe became a research Fellow of Somerville College in 1946, and remained as tutor until 1970, when she became professor in Cambridge, retiring in 1986. A staunch Roman Catholic, she combined an Aristotelian concern with the actual nature of the phenomena of mind and morality, with the attention to language characteristic of post-war Oxford philosophy. Works include Intention (1957), and An Introduction to Wittgenstein’s Tractatus (1959). Her translation of the Philosophical Investigations (1953) of Wittgenstein was a landmark of modern philosophy.